Lenny Distilled

Embrace uncertainty, avoid false precision

Strategy → Roadmaps & Planning

There's tons of stuff you can't know ahead of time. So if you're getting a false precision at the beginner, that's a comfort blanket. That's just helping you feel like there isn't uncertainty. There's uncertainty everywhere all the time.

Alex KomoroskeThinking like a gardener, slime mold, the adjacent possible: Product advice from Alex Komoroske
Supporting

I think because we don't exactly know what capabilities will even come up soon and we don't know what's going to work technically, and then we also don't know what's going to land even if it works technically, it's much more important for us to be very humble and learn a lot more empirically and just try things quickly.

Alexander EmbiricosHow to drive word of mouth | Nilan Peiris (CPO of Wise)
Supporting

Everywhere I've ever worked before this, you kind of know what technology you're building on, but that's not true at all with AI. Every two months, computers can do something they've never been able to do before and you need to completely think differently about what you're doing.

Kevin WeilOpenAI's CPO on how AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbooks, more
Supporting

The further out you plan, the more you're making it up. We know this.

Janna BastowBuilding better roadmaps | Janna Bastow (Mind the Product, ProdPad)
Supporting

You want to be resilient to that change. When capabilities drop, you want to be able to jump on it really quickly. So being agile, not being stuck with roadmaps, being able to just say, oh, we're just going to switch priorities right away, is going to be super important.

Amjad MasadBehind the product: Replit