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15 Jan 2026 Lenny's Podcast How to show up in any room with a low heart rate: Silicon Valley’s missing etiquette playbook | Sam Lessin
“I'm not saying you should be totally cut and dry, but it's kind of, I would say emojis almost feel like jokes to me, which is like, tell them at your own risk and they're probably not worth it.”
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- 15 Jan 2026
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…Say more about the emoji piece. Is your advice just know emojis if it's a business? I think emoji from my perspective, it's quite a step of familiarity, if that makes sense. From a business context, look, if someone sends you a smiley face, you can respond with it. You can kind of match. Again, it goes back to this matching vocabulary and language. I'm not saying you should be totally cut and dry, but it's kind of, I would say emojis almost feel like jokes to me, which is like, tell them at your own risk and they're probably not worth it. Awesome. Okay. I do use emojis. I use the thank you hands one a lot.…
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