Lenny Distilled

Learn by doing: frameworks help but practice decides

Craft → Product Sense

At Reforge, we're building frameworks that are tools in a toolkit. You pull them out when relevant. They're not a coloring book to stay inside the lines of.

Casey WintersHow to sell your ideas and rise within your company

You can't do homework. You can't do exercises. You can't do fake stuff. You have to work on real products at real companies with real customers, with real data to get better at product management.

Fareed MosavatHow to build trust and grow as a product leader
Supporting

Content sometimes can get in the way of the impact because you're trying to apply it and you think that the point is the framework and the point is the one pager or whatever it is that you're doing when it's not.

Maggie CrowleyMastering product strategy and growing as a PM
Supporting

I'm going to give you real scenarios that I expect from the role. I want to hear how you'd approach them. If you can't come up with a few reasonable ideas, figure out how to test them quickly without analyst support or research, I'm just not interested.

Casey WintersHow to sell your ideas and rise within your company
Supporting

You can't teach this just through frameworks. You needed to have a series of case studies. You need to have a real series examples.

Hari SrinivasanLinkedIn's product evolution and the art of building complex systems