About

Lenny Distilled started as a midnight experiment and became a love letter to minimalism.

My grandmother had a small hardbound book of quotes in her bedroom…palm-sized, with a floral textile cover. You'd pick it up, flip through a few pages, and put it down. Some quotes made you think. Others stayed with you for years. That book shaped this project. What began as "how do I visualize this data beautifully" became "how do I make these nuggets stick."

Lenny Rachitsky has built an extraordinary repository of product wisdom over the years. 300+ conversations with practitioners who've shipped products used by billions. This project is a navigation layer for that depth, surfacing the gold: the insights, the points of consensus, and the moments where experts see things differently.

The interface is very deliberately bare. No convoluted visuals. No chatbots personifying the guests. Just insights you can consume and put down in a minute and revisit. And maybe they make you reflect later. The content is the product, everything else should disappear.

For the first time in eighteen years, I've had an opportunity to step back from the daily grind. To spend real time with my kids and family. To reflect on what I genuinely enjoy. From March 2026, I'll be looking for what's next in my career.

On the future of product teams

I'm increasingly convinced that LLMs will be the great equalizer for product managers. The leverage these tools provide lets strong PMs focus on what actually matters: thinking deeply, making hard tradeoffs, understanding customers, adding a bit of personality to products.

I also believe teams are about to get much smaller. One stellar PM, one or two exceptional engineers, shared design support. This combination can now deliver what required entire squads before. Few companies have adapted to this reality yet, but they will.

Whether that means leading a tight team or contributing as a senior IC depends on the problem. Either way, I want to be close to the work.

If that sounds interesting, and if you're solving hard problems, find me on LinkedIn.

— Harsh