other / uses
Exa
“So Brave is the one that ships with OpenClaw. I use Exa just because I already have an Exa account. You use Perplexity.”
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Claire Vo
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Books, apps, and tools
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tool / uses
iTerm
“I use iTerm, but you can open your terminal and then you just paste it in, press enter, and I already have Homebrew and some dependencies installed. And so it's going to install OpenClaw and then it should drop you into a step- by-step onboarding.”
tool / uses
Linear
“While I don't recommend people edit the soul by hand, it's sometimes really useful to edit the tools document by hand because there's just some nuances in how you might want it to read your calendar or search the web, or I use Linear as tasking kind of substrate for my agents, how you might want it to use Linear. And so the tools markdown file is a really useful one.”
tool / uses
Sonnet 4.6
“One, because they're really hardened against prompt injection and some security risks out of the box, and, two, you're just going to get a better experience. So I use a lot of Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6 and GPT-5.4.”
tool / uses
GPT-5.4
“One, because they're really hardened against prompt injection and some security risks out of the box, and, two, you're just going to get a better experience. So I use a lot of Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6 and GPT-5.4.”
tool / uses
Opus 4.6
“One, because they're really hardened against prompt injection and some security risks out of the box, and, two, you're just going to get a better experience. So I use a lot of Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6 and GPT-5.4.”
book / recommends
Treasure Island
“Yeah, I was thinking about this, and I'm going to talk about a category of books that I've started to recommend to people, which is classic children's books. If you are a parent out there, you know there's so much children's book slop out there, graphic novels with like seven words per page, the writing's atrocious. Even in the older years, it doesn't get better. And we've just started pulling off the shelf Treasure Island. We are reading Alice in Wonderland. We're reading some of the Shakespearean comedies. The language is so much more sophisticated, and my kids still get it, and they still think it's funny. And so I feel like we have dumbed down what we expect of our children, especially in what they consume from a media perspective. And so I'm just going to the classics and we're having a really good time. So I highly recommend pulling some of those classic children's books off the shelf. Even if they feel a little bit more advanced, my kids have been loving them.”
book / recommends
Alice in Wonderland
“Yeah, I was thinking about this, and I'm going to talk about a category of books that I've started to recommend to people, which is classic children's books. If you are a parent out there, you know there's so much children's book slop out there, graphic novels with like seven words per page, the writing's atrocious. Even in the older years, it doesn't get better. And we've just started pulling off the shelf Treasure Island. We are reading Alice in Wonderland. We're reading some of the Shakespearean comedies. The language is so much more sophisticated, and my kids still get it, and they still think it's funny. And so I feel like we have dumbed down what we expect of our children, especially in what they consume from a media perspective. And so I'm just going to the classics and we're having a really good time. So I highly recommend pulling some of those classic children's books off the shelf. Even if they feel a little bit more advanced, my kids have been loving them.”
other / recommends
Mythic Quest
“It's basically a vacation. I saw Poor Things, which if you like capital W weird capital A art, highly recommend Poor Things. The show that I recommend to people, I love Mythic Quest. Everybody references Silicon Valley, but Mythic Quest gets at some of, I was in gaming once, gets at some of my experiences in the technology organizations.”
hardware / likes
Pacifica
“I just want to drive around my living room, Bluey included. And so no Rivian, no Mercedes-Benz, but I really love my Pacifica.”
book / recommends
Circe
“High Growth Handbook I love, and I like Scaling People. These are two books that the reason why I recommend them to people is because they have solid playbook answers to 80%, 90% of everyday leadership scaling people questions. And so they're just great reference books for what I think great leadership inside startups can look like, and they solve some of the things that you don't need to solve novel-ly. And then one on the fiction side that I've been recommending is Circe, which is a retelling of Circe's story from her perspective. It's a great read, and everybody I've recommended it to really loves it.”
book / likes
Scaling People
“High Growth Handbook I love, and I like Scaling People. These are two books that the reason why I recommend them to people is because they have solid playbook answers to 80%, 90% of everyday leadership scaling people questions. And so they're just great reference books for what I think great leadership inside startups can look like, and they solve some of the things that you don't need to solve novel-ly. And then one on the fiction side that I've been recommending is Circe, which is a retelling of Circe's story from her perspective. It's a great read, and everybody I've recommended it to really loves it.”
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01 / recommendation
Recommends Treasure Island. Recommends Alice in Wonderland. Recommends Shakespearean comedies.
“Yeah, I was thinking about this, and I'm going to talk about a category of books that I've started to recommend to people, which is classic children's books. If you are a parent out there, you know there's so much children's book slop out there, graphic novels with like seven words per page, the writing's atrocious. Even in the older years, it doesn't get better. And we've just started pulling off the shelf Treasure Island. We are reading Alice in Wonderland. We're reading some of the Shakespearean comedies. The language is so much more sophisticated, and my kids still get it, and they still think it's funny. And so I feel like we have dumbed down what we expect of our children, especially in what they consume from a media perspective. And so I'm just going to the classics and we're having a really good time. So I highly recommend pulling some of those classic children's books off the shelf. Even if they feel a little bit more advanced, my kids have been loving them.”
- Speaker
- Claire Vo
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
02 / recommendation
Mentions personal use of Linear.
“While I don't recommend people edit the soul by hand, it's sometimes really useful to edit the tools document by hand because there's just some nuances in how you might want it to read your calendar or search the web, or I use Linear as tasking kind of substrate for my agents, how you might want it to use Linear.”
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- Claire Vo
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
03 / uncertainty
Yeah. And I'll give this tip to some of the big large language model providers out there and these broad consumer products like ChatGPT, like Claude is, I don't know if you've experienced this, you see, for example, working with ChatGPT and every new chat ends with, "If you want me to, I can tell you this mystery, like this next step.
“Yeah. And I'll give this tip to some of the big large language model providers out there and these broad consumer products like ChatGPT, like Claude is, I don't know if you've experienced this, you see, for example, working with ChatGPT and every new chat ends with, "If you want me to, I can tell you this mystery, like this next step.”
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- Claire Vo
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- Lenny's Podcast
04 / commitment
Where people stumble with OpenClaw is they think they can throw any task at a single agent and get great results, and then they get really frustrated. I won't sugarcoat it.
“Where people stumble with OpenClaw is they think they can throw any task at a single agent and get great results, and then they get really frustrated. I won't sugarcoat it.”
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- Claire Vo
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- Lenny's Podcast
05 / belief
Oh, other magic trick that again people might not know is your OpenClaw files are in a hidden folder in Mac. And so I think you press command shift period when you're in Finder, and it'll show you your hidden files.
“Oh, other magic trick that again people might not know is your OpenClaw files are in a hidden folder in Mac. And so I think you press command shift period when you're in Finder, and it'll show you your hidden files.”
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- Claire Vo
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- Lenny's Podcast
06 / uncertainty
One is a Mac Mini does not have a screen. And I don't know how you manage your Mac Mini.
“One is a Mac Mini does not have a screen. And I don't know how you manage your Mac Mini.”
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- Claire Vo
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- Lenny's Podcast
07 / belief
What I think is interesting about OpenClaw, in particular, is one, it's open source, which means you can actually with, pretty little effort, understand what's happening behind the scenes, which is different from a hosted solution or a closed source solution.
“What I think is interesting about OpenClaw, in particular, is one, it's open source, which means you can actually with, pretty little effort, understand what's happening behind the scenes, which is different from a hosted solution or a closed source solution.”
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- Claire Vo
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- Lenny's Podcast
08 / recommendation
Will it not? And if it can't solve a problem, I think where I've come and I would advise people to do is just walk away from expecting it to solve that problem and give it another problem to solve.
“Will it not? And if it can't solve a problem, I think where I've come and I would advise people to do is just walk away from expecting it to solve that problem and give it another problem to solve.”
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- Claire Vo
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- Lenny's Podcast
09 / commitment
They would be able to see all my public events like any other calendar, any other person in my team would be able to see. And then because Polly, she's my EA, I'm going to share edit access with my calendar so she can drop things on my calendar or remove them or move them around.
“They would be able to see all my public events like any other calendar, any other person in my team would be able to see. And then because Polly, she's my EA, I'm going to share edit access with my calendar so she can drop things on my calendar or remove them or move them around.”
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- Claire Vo
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- Lenny's Podcast
10 / evaluation
Whoever figures that out, I think is going to have something really special or maybe we'll all have something that we all run and lovingly craft at home, and that will be special too. So I will just say for folks, this has been one of those really intense moments where my eyes open and I think, "Wow, this is going to change my personal life and my professional life in a way I could not have predicted three years ago.
“Whoever figures that out, I think is going to have something really special or maybe we'll all have something that we all run and lovingly craft at home, and that will be special too. So I will just say for folks, this has been one of those really intense moments where my eyes open and I think, "Wow, this is going to change my personal life and my professional life in a way I could not have predicted three years ago.”
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- Claire Vo
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- Lenny's Podcast
11 / preference
I feel like I'm using these things that I built, and that sense of crafting your personal agent experience, as opposed to giving your tasks to a general purpose agent, I think just changes the user agent interaction in a very interesting way.
“I feel like I'm using these things that I built, and that sense of crafting your personal agent experience, as opposed to giving your tasks to a general purpose agent, I think just changes the user agent interaction in a very interesting way.”
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- Claire Vo
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- Lenny's Podcast
12 / prediction
And so I just think the web is hostile to agents right now. And we're going to have to rethink what is the interface of the web to be more agent friendly because I think we skip ahead a couple years and the number one user of websites are going to be people's agents.
“And so I just think the web is hostile to agents right now. And we're going to have to rethink what is the interface of the web to be more agent friendly because I think we skip ahead a couple years and the number one user of websites are going to be people's agents.”
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- Claire Vo
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- Lenny's Podcast
13 / recommendation
Mentions personal use of iTerm.
“I use iTerm, but you can open your terminal and then you just paste it in, press enter, and I already have Homebrew and some dependencies installed. And so it's going to install OpenClaw and then it should drop you into a step- by-step onboarding.”
- Speaker
- Claire Vo
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
14 / recommendation
Mentions personal use of Linear.
“While I don't recommend people edit the soul by hand, it's sometimes really useful to edit the tools document by hand because there's just some nuances in how you might want it to read your calendar or search the web, or I use Linear as tasking kind of substrate for my agents, how you might want it to use Linear. And so the tools markdown file is a really useful one.”
- Speaker
- Claire Vo
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
15 / recommendation
Mentions personal use of Exa.
“So Brave is the one that ships with OpenClaw. I use Exa just because I already have an Exa account. You use Perplexity.”
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- Claire Vo
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
16 / recommendation
Mentions personal use of Opus 4.6. Mentions personal use of Sonnet 4.6. Mentions personal use of GPT-5.4.
“One, because they're really hardened against prompt injection and some security risks out of the box, and, two, you're just going to get a better experience. So I use a lot of Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6 and GPT-5.4.”
- Speaker
- Claire Vo
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
17 / prediction
One of the things I wonder is if, you know, engineering leaders will decide on particular transitions or migrations to make just to power this stuff so that their teams can move a little bit faster because they're just seeing themselves be left so far behind compared to those who are maybe using some of these libraries and technologies natively.
“One of the things I wonder is if, you know, engineering leaders will decide on particular transitions or migrations to make just to power this stuff so that their teams can move a little bit faster because they're just seeing themselves be left so far behind compared to those who are maybe using some of these libraries and technologies natively.”
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- Claire Vo
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
18 / evaluation
You're showing an entirely new way for a leader to show up and actually contribute to the work product of the company, which I think is really inspirational.
“You're showing an entirely new way for a leader to show up and actually contribute to the work product of the company, which I think is really inspirational.”
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- Claire Vo
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- Lenny's Podcast
19 / prediction
Definitely going to inspire tons of people to rethink how they show up at work. And I think a few folks are going to be looking over their shoulder thinking that you're about to lap them once or twice on some of this building.
“Definitely going to inspire tons of people to rethink how they show up at work. And I think a few folks are going to be looking over their shoulder thinking that you're about to lap them once or twice on some of this building.”
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- Claire Vo
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- Lenny's Podcast
20 / recommendation
We can't kind of scope creep and add more and more features. And what I think is interesting, I'm curious your point of view, is you can really start to go to the edges of some great user experience.
“We can't kind of scope creep and add more and more features. And what I think is interesting, I'm curious your point of view, is you can really start to go to the edges of some great user experience.”
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- Claire Vo
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
21 / recommendation
Likes Scaling People. Recommends Circe.
“High Growth Handbook I love, and I like Scaling People. These are two books that the reason why I recommend them to people is because they have solid playbook answers to 80%, 90% of everyday leadership scaling people questions. And so they're just great reference books for what I think great leadership inside startups can look like, and they solve some of the things that you don't need to solve novel-ly. And then one on the fiction side that I've been recommending is Circe, which is a retelling of Circe's story from her perspective. It's a great read, and everybody I've recommended it to really loves it.”
- Speaker
- Claire Vo
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
22 / recommendation
Likes Pacifica.
“I just want to drive around my living room, Bluey included. And so no Rivian, no Mercedes-Benz, but I really love my Pacifica.”
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- Claire Vo
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
23 / belief
The reason I'm curious about it is I do think it's complicated and I do think you can be successful, but I don't think we're being successful at the rates I would love to see. And I think we're missing a lot of innovation and a lot of economic growth by not having incredible, technical, capable women start companies and lead organizations.
“The reason I'm curious about it is I do think it's complicated and I do think you can be successful, but I don't think we're being successful at the rates I would love to see. And I think we're missing a lot of innovation and a lot of economic growth by not having incredible, technical, capable women start companies and lead organizations.”
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- Claire Vo
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- Lenny's Podcast
24 / belief
One, I think help each other. And then the other thing that I really, if I could ask your audience anything, is if you have a job where your job is typing into an internet box to create products out of nothing, really acknowledge the privilege and joy of that job and try to have some fun because a lot of people want to sit where you're sitting.
“One, I think help each other. And then the other thing that I really, if I could ask your audience anything, is if you have a job where your job is typing into an internet box to create products out of nothing, really acknowledge the privilege and joy of that job and try to have some fun because a lot of people want to sit where you're sitting.”
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- Claire Vo
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- Lenny's Podcast
25 / commitment
We'll link to all these in the show notes. And we will refresh these two facts at the end of the podcast anyway, because I always ask this anyway.
“We'll link to all these in the show notes. And we will refresh these two facts at the end of the podcast anyway, because I always ask this anyway.”
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- Claire Vo
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- Lenny's Podcast
26 / belief
I want to call out their amazing female CTOs out there, all those things. And I think if you can see it, you can start to unlock these very embedded concepts of who is and is not a technology leader who is and is not technical.
“I want to call out their amazing female CTOs out there, all those things. And I think if you can see it, you can start to unlock these very embedded concepts of who is and is not a technology leader who is and is not technical.”
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- Claire Vo
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- Lenny's Podcast
27 / belief
P product, they're all builders, they're the same types of folks, they're all builders, and bringing them under one house allows you to optimize for the whole, as opposed to optimize for the function. And if you can find a leader that is effective at that, I think you can get a lot of value added.
“P product, they're all builders, they're the same types of folks, they're all builders, and bringing them under one house allows you to optimize for the whole, as opposed to optimize for the function. And if you can find a leader that is effective at that, I think you can get a lot of value added.”
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- Claire Vo
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- Lenny's Podcast
28 / commitment
There were two leaders in my organization, I won't say which ones and I won't say when, but two leaders in the organization, partners across product and engineering, and they could not get it together.
“There were two leaders in my organization, I won't say which ones and I won't say when, but two leaders in the organization, partners across product and engineering, and they could not get it together.”
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- Claire Vo
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- Lenny's Podcast
29 / evaluation
I really believe in leaning into strengths. And if you are in a position in which you're good at things and you've been giving a lot of responsibility, but you have tremendous growth edges and you're spending more time on the things you need to level up than the things you are exceptional at, I think that's not fair for the organization.
“I really believe in leaning into strengths. And if you are in a position in which you're good at things and you've been giving a lot of responsibility, but you have tremendous growth edges and you're spending more time on the things you need to level up than the things you are exceptional at, I think that's not fair for the organization.”
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- Claire Vo
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- Lenny's Podcast
30 / preference
And what I mean is in most, at least in the stage I operate in in startups and growth stage companies and late stage startups, organizations are very fluid and I like to organize around talented motivated individuals. And so just because we're organized in a particular way now, just because these organizations are separate or these are different, together, doesn't mean that's necessarily the way they have to be, and so you should think about your career growth in the existing structure of the organization.
“And what I mean is in most, at least in the stage I operate in in startups and growth stage companies and late stage startups, organizations are very fluid and I like to organize around talented motivated individuals. And so just because we're organized in a particular way now, just because these organizations are separate or these are different, together, doesn't mean that's necessarily the way they have to be, and so you should think about your career growth in the existing structure of the organization.”
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- Claire Vo
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- Lenny's Podcast
31 / preference
I tend to come in and love this, hate it, it's what I do, which is if I look at an organization that is operating at a lower pace than I would expect, I communicate to my leaders that my expectation is they bring in the clock speed one click faster, which means if you think something needs to be done this year, it needs to be done this half.
“I tend to come in and love this, hate it, it's what I do, which is if I look at an organization that is operating at a lower pace than I would expect, I communicate to my leaders that my expectation is they bring in the clock speed one click faster, which means if you think something needs to be done this year, it needs to be done this half.”
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- Claire Vo
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
32 / recommendation
These are two books that the reason why I recommend them to people is because they have solid playbook answers to 80%, 90% of everyday leadership scaling people questions.
“These are two books that the reason why I recommend them to people is because they have solid playbook answers to 80%, 90% of everyday leadership scaling people questions.”
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- Claire Vo
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
33 / evaluation
We're scrappy and resource-constrained, and our platform PMs were working on something very important, but this was critical and we needed to get it done.
“We're scrappy and resource-constrained, and our platform PMs were working on something very important, but this was critical and we needed to get it done.”
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- Claire Vo
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- Lenny's Podcast
34 / evaluation
I think the other thing is, again, I said this earlier, so many people get siloed into, "I'm a product manager, and so my job is this, but it's not that.
“I think the other thing is, again, I said this earlier, so many people get siloed into, "I'm a product manager, and so my job is this, but it's not that.”
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- Claire Vo
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- Lenny's Podcast
35 / evaluation
I think you have to be able to do a lot with a little, and I think you have to know where you're getting and, come hell or high water, figure out a way to get there.
“I think you have to be able to do a lot with a little, and I think you have to know where you're getting and, come hell or high water, figure out a way to get there.”
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- Claire Vo
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- Lenny's Podcast
36 / evaluation
I love to sell, but I think product teams, this opposition we have industry-wide with sales-led I'm not convinced is healthy in every organization.
“I love to sell, but I think product teams, this opposition we have industry-wide with sales-led I'm not convinced is healthy in every organization.”
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- Claire Vo
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- Lenny's Podcast
37 / preference
I'm not going to relay it in precision, but one of the tactics that I've seen out there is basically go through your calendar for the last month or quarter, whatever it is, write everything down, and basically group them into, I hated doing this, I didn't love doing it but it was fine, I love doing this, and then I love doing this, and if I could spend all my time on this, I would be the happiest person in the whole world.
“I'm not going to relay it in precision, but one of the tactics that I've seen out there is basically go through your calendar for the last month or quarter, whatever it is, write everything down, and basically group them into, I hated doing this, I didn't love doing it but it was fine, I love doing this, and then I love doing this, and if I could spend all my time on this, I would be the happiest person in the whole world.”
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- Claire Vo
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
38 / recommendation
Recommends Mythic Quest.
“It's basically a vacation. I saw Poor Things, which if you like capital W weird capital A art, highly recommend Poor Things. The show that I recommend to people, I love Mythic Quest. Everybody references Silicon Valley, but Mythic Quest gets at some of, I was in gaming once, gets at some of my experiences in the technology organizations.”
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- Claire Vo
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast