Lenny Distilled

Great products speak for themselves

Craft → Execution Sense

I wish I'd known that you could build a company by being heads down and doing great research and simply building something amazing. And not by constantly tweeting and hyping and fundraising.

Edwin ChenThe $1B Al company training ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini on the path to responsible AGI
Nuanced

A PM is a conductor. It's as though the team that you are a PM on is an orchestra. There are many different functions in your team that includes legal policy, comms, data analytics, engineering, design, much like there are many different instruments in an orchestra.

Naomi GleitMeta's head of product on working with Mark Zuckerberg, early growth tactics, and more
Nuanced

My job was not to be liked. My job was to care about other people and to get out of my own head and to become others focused is what helped me kind of let go of the need to be liked.

Kim ScottInside Devin: The AI engineer that's set to write 50% of its company's code this year | Scott Wu
With caveats

My manager owns context, I own the recommendation.

Ami VoraMaking an impact through authenticity and curiosity
With caveats

Your likelihood to follow through on something you start writing is a function of the objective you have with writing that piece and how strong your motivation is for seeing that objective to fruition.

Julian ShapiroFrom managing people to managing AI: The leadership skills everyone needs now | Julian Shapiro