Opening
Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:00): Boz, the CTO of Meta, said something about you. "Working with Ami, she could have the most profound disagreement in the world and she would respond, fascinating, you have to tell me more why you think that." Ami Vora (00:00:09): I really enjoy being right and then it turns out in the working world, that did not serve me so great. I think the hard part is sublimating your ego a little bit and saying it's more important to get to the outcome than to be right....
The opener starts with biography before advice. That order makes the guest legible as a person before the listener extracts tactics.
Low-ego framing
Ami Vora (00:00:27): If we all agree that the feeling of something should be, I'm sitting in Dolores Park with my friends on a sunny Saturday,...
Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.
Accept praise cleanly
Ami Vora (00:02:06): Oh, thank you. I'm so happy to be here. Lenny Rachitsky (00:02:08): So, when I asked you about your goal for our conversation...
Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.
Carry memory
Lenny Rachitsky (00:35:37): Is there an emulator you most often come back to that you find most useful in just in your day-to-day? Who's the person that like, oh yeah- Ami Vora (00:35:44): I...
Returns to something said earlier, proving the conversation has memory.
Low-ego framing
just open the door instead and say like, hey, you seem to know something that I don't know yet. Why not tell me about it? I'm going to get better. We'll probably come to the right outcome. Maybe you'll have a...
Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.
Accept praise cleanly
Ami Vora (01:23:25): Thank you, Lenny, so much. This was such a fun conversation. I've really enjoyed it. Lenny Rachitsky (01:23:29): I loved it.
Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.