Opening
John Cutler (00:00:00): Let's say you're a founder and you're trying to decide, should I invest more on processes, or should I invest more in people. The first thing is introspection. What do you believe in, really? What do you believe in, and what do the people around you believe in, and how can you be a coherent leader? And you know what? You can nudge yourself a little bit away from your happy plate, but you're not going to go super far....
The opener starts with biography before advice. That order makes the guest legible as a person before the listener extracts tactics.
Low-ego framing
Lenny (00:00:49): Welcome to Lenny's Podcast. I'm Lenny, and my goal here is to help you get better at the craft of building and growing...
Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.
Accept praise cleanly
about where you're heading next, which I was going to ask, so that's great. Thank you for covering all that. By the way, I was just going to also say, lucky Toast, wow, to get John Cutler. Go them....
Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.
Low-ego framing
yesterday, there's a DJ, a famous DJ called Jon Cutler without the H, so I don't know if are people into house music knew that. Yeah, I think usually it just, like most Johns, it forms into Cutler or JC...
Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.
Accept praise cleanly
Lenny (01:40:02): Amazing. John, thank you so much for doing this. I'm really excited for this new adventure that you're on, and I'm excited to maybe follow up...
Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.
Ending
John Cutler (01:39:32): I still am using Twitter a fair amount I think, but LinkedIn could be good. John Cuttlefish on Twitter and then just John Cutler at LinkedIn. Yeah, I think what I would love to hear from people is just send recommendations of people we should hear more from. I think that would be really helpful. Even in the role that I have, I want to start like a guest speaker series to bring people in to talk to our team. And so I think that that would be something that I can work on....
The ending makes gratitude concrete, which turns warmth into checkable behavior.