Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedCat Wu: belief
23 Apr 2026 Lenny's Podcast How Anthropic’s product team moves faster than anyone else | Cat Wu (Head of Product, Claude Code)
“Just do things. I think there's a lot of value in first principles thinking. And if you know what you're optimizing for and you have strong first principles, then you can normally deduce what the right course of action is and be able to clearly articulate that to all the stakeholders.”
— Cat Wu
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- Cat Wu
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- 23 Apr 2026
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- Lenny's Podcast
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…OK, two more questions. Do you have a favorite like motto that you often come back to in work or in life? Just do things. I think there's a lot of value in first principles thinking. And if you know what you're optimizing for and you have strong first principles, then you can normally deduce what the right course of action is and be able to clearly articulate that to all the stakeholders. And then you should just do it. I think jobs are fake. If you understand the constraints, you can figure out what you can do and then just try to do it quickly, learn from the mistakes and apologize or fix them if you did something wrong. You could just do things, whoever said that.…
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