Boris Cherny: belief

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…Wow. That is so cool. Wow. Okay. I wonder what those last two are. Anyway, okay. Two more questions. Do you have a favorite life motto that you often come back to in work or in life? Use common sense. I think a lot of the failures that I see, especially, in a work environment is people just failing to use common sense. Like, they follow a process without thinking about it. They just do a thing without thinking about it, or they're working on a product that's not a good product or not a good idea, and they're just following the momentum, and not thinking about it. I think the best results that I see are people thinking from first principles, and just developing their own common sense. If something smells weird then it's probably not a good idea. So, I think this is the single advice that I give to coworkers more than anything too. And I feel like that alone could be its own podcast conversation. What is common sense? How do you build? But we'll keep this short. Final question. So, you've got more active on Twitter/X. I'm curious just why and just what's your experience been with Twitter? The world of Twitter. Because you get a lot of engagement on Twitter/X.…

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