Lenny Distilled

Success comes from deciding, not deliberating

Craft → Decision Making

There are no right decisions. You make a decision right. Because you never know what's going to happen in life. You just have to commit to whatever you're doing and have no regrets about it.

Tamar YehoshuaLessons in product leadership and AI strategy from Glean, Google, Amazon, and Slack
Supporting

We take all the information we can, we make the best possible guess to go in one direction, and then we just keep reevaluating it to make sure it's the right direction. And if it's not, we pivot.

Melissa TanBuilding high-performing teams | Melissa Tan (Webflow, Dropbox, Canva)
Supporting

If you're not sure who the decision maker is, one, it's probably you. And I'd rather you act that way than not because you're going to like slow the whole company down.

Claire Hughes JohnsonLessons from scaling Stripe
Supporting

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
With caveats

Thinking is cheap, so you should do more thinking, not less.

Shreyas DoshiThe art of product management | Shreyas Doshi (Stripe, Twitter, Google, Yahoo)