Lenny Rachitsky: uncertainty

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…Do you still like it? I do in almost every way. I can't imagine doing something more fulfilling and interesting. Just basically my job is to write about things that are interesting and share people's interesting insights and experiences and interview people and extract wisdom. It's just so interesting. It's my own thing, which makes it extra interesting. But I think a lot about this artist Finch wrote this blog post, "How to Become an Artist." At the top of his post, he's just like, "You should not become a professional artist, most likely." Because once it's a thing you have to do, it changes it, you have to do it. This is the downside, but I just want to preface with saying this is incredible. I can't imagine doing anything else that I enjoy more. But having to write a post or put out a post every single week and a podcast episode every week, it's like this treadmill that you're on. You have to get used to that. That part is no fun. But again, I can't think of anything better that I could be doing, and it goes up and down. Sometimes I love it. I'm so happy I get to write a thing every single week, and then some weeks I'm like, "It'd be cool not to do it this week." But that's part of this life because otherwise you can't do this. You can't survive in this way if you're not doing something consistently and making it awesome every week. It's a part of it. The visual I always have is the Indiana Jones boulder is chasing me constantly. Because you put out something, like I have a post come out... What's today? We're recording on Wednesday. I had a post come out yesterday and then it's like, what's next week? All right, that's done. All the work you put into it, over. It's coming out next week and it's every week. The big question I don't have an answer to is where this all goes long term. Because someday, whether it's at a seven years old or 100 years old or 60 years old, I don't know, maybe I won't be able to do this every single week. I think about where does this all go. I don't think there's an answer to Substack writer podcast life long term. What do you do? According to the Lindy, right?…

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