Lenny Distilled

Speed beats perfection for reversible decisions

Craft → Decision Making

There's no right or wrong decision. There's just slow and fast decisions. A lot of the times if you make a wrong decision, if you make it fast enough, you would know it was wrong and you would correct it and you would still do it faster than thinking months for the right decision.

Mayur KamatUnconventional product lessons from Binance, N26, Google, more
Supporting

Most things are two-way doors. You can come back. And so, it's so important to have an opinion and use that opinion to anchor people around and have people react to.

Mihika KapoorVision, conviction, and hype: How to build 0 to 1 inside a company | Mihika Kapoor (Product, Figma)
Supporting

My biggest advice to people is, oftentimes the analysis paralysis of dotting every eye, crossing every tee sometimes chokes you out of opportunities.

Sanchan SaxenaWhy Uber's CPO delivers food on weekends | Sachin Kansal
Supporting

Strategy is a little bit overrated for product. For most product managers, your strategy should be, 'How fast can I go from hypothesis to data?'

Mayur KamatUnconventional product lessons from Binance, N26, Google, more
Nuanced

Once you commit to a decision, you actually learn more post committing to that decision about what's going to work and not going to work, and you move out of the hypothetical. And as long as your decision is like 70% right, you can iterate on that 20, 30% in either direction, but if you don't commit, then you don't actually get any new information that is high fidelity and high quality.

Anneka GuptaBecoming more strategic, navigating difficult colleagues, founder mode, more