A fun thing about recording a podcast (https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/2/lennys-podcast/) with a professional like Lenny Rachitsky is that his team know how to slice the resulting video up into TikTok-sized short form vertical videos. Here’s one he shared on Twitter today (https://x.com/lennysan/status/2039845666680176703) which ended up attracting over 1.1m views!

That was 48 seconds. Our full conversation (https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/2/lennys-podcast/) lasted 1 hour 40 minutes.

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