Lenny Distilled

Build platforms that make features one-hour builds

Strategy → Roadmaps & Planning

How long would it take to build a platform layer, which exposes APIs so anyone could build NFT gating in one hour?

Farhan ThawarHow Shopify builds a high-intensity culture
Nuanced

There's a thing called power progression. There are times when certain types of power are available. The path to power is where the rubber meets the road.

Hamilton HelmerBusiness strategy with Hamilton Helmer (author of 7 Powers)
With caveats

When you design a minimum viable product, you're optimizing for speed. And in that set of optimizations, you are minimizing the deeper product thinking about what can fully differentiate our product... but worse, it leads to building the wrong thing technically.

Jeremy HenricksonMoving fast and navigating uncertainty