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Published · transcript-backedLenny Rachitsky: uncertainty
3 Oct 2024 Lenny's Podcast Thinking like a gardener not a builder, organizing teams like slime mold, the adjacent possible, and other unconventional product advice | Alex Komoroske (Stripe, Google)
“Alex, you have the best metaphors. I don't know how you do this, but they're so evocative and correct.”
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- Lenny Rachitsky
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- 3 Oct 2024
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…5 different ways of doing everything. They clearly don't talk to each other." But it allows the overall swarm of the AWS product suite to be very powerful and anti-fragile or whatever you want to say. And so slime molds, I think, is acknowledging that organizations are, especially ones that focus on autonomy and agency of their individual employees, which is a lot of tech companies, they are more like slime molds than we realize. And if you fight that fact, you're going to have a bad time. And if you embrace it, then you can start realizing slime molds are actually kind of amazing. They can find solutions to problems you didn't even know you were searching for. Alex, you have the best metaphors. I don't know how you do this, but they're so evocative and correct. I can tell you that the process I do if you're into it.…
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