Lenny Rachitsky: commitment

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…Or yeah, because just looking back, anything that makes it obvious that you would've started this newsletter, or a little more... I don't think there was anything that would've pointed me or anybody to this being the thing that I do now. It's completely unexpected personally, and I don't think anyone saw it coming. I had never written anything online before I started writing. I was always not like, "Hey, look at me. I've got all the answers and I have all this wisdom to share." I was always like, "I'm an introvert. I'd like to stay behind the scenes." It's a very unexpected path for me. Part of the reason I think I was able to do it is the newsletter started during COVID, so I could just sit there and type and put stuff out online. I didn't have to go anywhere and tell everyone. I could stay in my little hole. But just to follow through on these things you pointed out that I did earlier, because I don't think I've ever talked about these things, I had all these different side projects before, like through college, I guess. Yeah, through college. I was like a very big atheist and I'm still an atheist. Jewish atheist, which is many Jews. But I was very into it before and now I'm like, okay, I don't care, whatever. Believe your own belief. I used to run a website called theatheistspot.com, which was Reddit for atheist news, which is not a... Reddit is that. It's fine, and you don't need it. But there's like conventions. We went to atheist conventions. I did that. The funny thing is that was during AdWords when Google AdWords was a way to monetize your site. And so all the ads on the site, because most of the articles were about religion, were all these religious dating sites. It was like Christian Mingle and all these funny dating sites that didn't make sense for the audience. I always thought that was funny. And then I worked with a friend on this other project called Youtorials, which was so ahead of its time. The idea was Youtorials, tutorials for you by you. And so it was people contributing things they've learned and writing a how-to, like how to make eggs, how to take a quick shower. It was all these- That's like TikTok, right?…

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