Nikhyl Singhal

Building a long and meaningful career | Nikhyl Singhal (Meta, Google)

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Opening

Nikhyl Singhal (00:00:00): When I was a kid and I was growing up in the Midwest, entertainment was like going to the dog tracks. The way that they motivated the dogs was they had these fake rabbits. These tails would go around faster than the dogs, which would then motivate the dogs to go around in circles. And what was interesting is the moment that the dogs, if they accidentally touched the rabbit, they would never run again because there was like, "Well, what's next? I've achieved what I was looking for....

The opener starts with biography before advice. That order makes the guest legible as a person before the listener extracts tactics.

Accept praise cleanly

Lenny (00:01:47): Nikhyl Singhal (00:04:43): Thank you, Lenny. I appreciate it. I'm happy to be here. Lenny (00:04:45): So I have a very simple question to start. How...

Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.

Low-ego framing

I'd nobody understands it. No one gives me credit. No one really appreciates me." I don't know if there is an answer to this, but is there a way to help people see that no, you're actually not doing great versus...

Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.

Name strength directly

rs. And I thought it was an incredibly powerful phrase that everyone focuses on your superpowers, but no one ever thinks about what shadows they create. Shadows of superpowers to me is the story of a lot of...

Says the strength directly to the guest, not only about them.

Ending

I can deliver more meaningful content. It's very different from yours, but I think it's all around the arc of trying to help people gain forward and be more effective tech professionals. So I would love to hear from your listeners. Lenny (01:24:48): Just to make sure people know where to go to do this. For feedback, do you recommend LinkedIn? Nikhyl Singhal (01:24:53): Yeah, LinkedIn is the ideal, but you can also find me on Twitter if you are just trying to add a quick......

The ending reorients from guest intimacy to listener usefulness.