Lenny Distilled

Learn from success, not just failure

Craft → Career Growth

You don't really learn from your mistakes, you learn from your successes. Of course, I learned and grew a ton during that time, but in now what I think is six or seven years at Rippling, I've learned so much more because I've seen success.

Matt MacInnis"I deliberately understaff every project" | Leadership lessons from Rippling's $16B journey
Supporting

Life is too short to make all our mistakes ourselves. So we should be learning from other people's failures as well.

Kunal ShahBuilding a meaningful career | Jason Shah (Airbnb, Amazon, Microsoft, Alchemy)
Nuanced

We are very encouraged in our lives, especially professionally, to talk about our A side all the time because that's what impresses people... But between all of those highlights, there were so many B moments that get shoved under the rug.