Eric Ries

So like, I kind of like, yes, it's a little bit difficult because, you know, I might, I don't set my own schedule in that way.

You know, I'm beholden to their schedule.

And we have to make that transition every morning as they like get used to the fact that, you know, they have to now reconnect with the wider world.

Um, it, uh, it can be challenging, but I feel like it's also, I just, I start every day with this like dose of gratitude.

Like here are these incredible beings that I, that they, they still want me in their life enough that this is how they want to start their day.

So I try to keep it in perspective, but yes, from a, from a work logistics perspective, it is a little bit complicated to.

Yeah, yeah.

I'm very experimental in my own work.

And it's not so much that I'm like explicitly trying to apply lean startup.

It's just that I'm very scientific.

I like to apply some of the method whenever possible.

And I'm also very willing to try new things.

I don't know, maybe that makes me, I'm just used to the uncertainty of being around startups all the time.

So most of the time when someone proposes something to me, if it has any merit at all, I'll be like, well, let's try it.

You know, and I won't be like, some people will be like, hey, like I get all the calls these days, like, hey, can we digitize your entire, all your writing and train an AI on it?

And, you know, have people talk to you and talk to the AI instead of talking to you.

And I'm like, that doesn't sound like too good of an idea.

That doesn't sound good.

That doesn't really appeal to me.

That's actually taking out the most interesting part of my job and getting rid of it.