Lenny Rachitsky: preference

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…Yeah, yeah. And I think it's funny because I was like, the knobs seemed really apparent and I was like, is that it? Is that what people want? I love that. I love that approach. I'm excited to see where you go with it. What I especially love about this vision you're describing, it super resonates with this insight I've had. So I've had a newsletter and then I had just a podcast that's just audio, and then I added video and I realized that there's just people that I just want to watch stuff and there's people that I just want to listen to stuff and then there's people I just want to read. I don't want this podcast, just shut up. I want to read it. And basically what you're describing is, well, here's information and we can deliver it to you in any medium you like. It could be blog posts, could be maybe a tweet, could be a podcast, could be a newsletter, blog post. Yeah. I mean that's exactly it. And I think even for myself, it depends on my mood. If I'm going on a walk, yeah, I want audio, but if I'm at work, yeah, most of the time text is good. And then it's kind of interesting to think about today the formats are not as malleable. I have to accept it in the format that you give it to me. But if I had sort of that power myself to choose, "Hey, thanks for this 100-page doc, I'm going to go ahead and turn it into an audio overview actually." It sort of shifts, I think, the dynamic between the person and the knowledge that's given to them. And there are actually many, many times that I've been given 100-page doc and I just didn't read it. So I wonder, I mean just frankly speaking, it's one of my funny stories is actually when I first joined Labs, Josh did give me a 50-page doc. He was like, "Here's what I think about this and this." It was basically his vision, and instead of reading it, I just grilled him. I was just like, Q&Aing him like a chatbot. Josh was like, "It's in the doc, Raiza." But the chat is easier, Josh.…

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