Lenny Rachitsky: uncertainty

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…It's a mix. People listening, I would just think about just go over your org and imagine who can do it, who can right now flex across those functions, whether it is engineering, design, product, even BD, and what you'll find is there's already quite a few that can flex across. Interesting. Are there any functions you think are especially successful at this? Not to play any favorites, but I don't know. Are you finding like, okay? Or you could also not highlight any specific. No, I think it's a mental model of how you do it. I think if I were to play what's the hardest craft to potentially learn, I think design has a lot more work to get the design agents to be really, really good. So I think designers have a little bit of a leg up in terms of others learning their craft than the vice versa. But I honestly think it's a mindset. I've seen designers code, I've seen PMs kind of design and do well. And this is why I think when you kind of step back and you think about people in your organization and who can flex, I think you'll see them show up in many areas. And what I think you'll find there is they have the agency, they're leaning into new things, they have the fluency, like they're already building new experiences and they have that growth mindset that they just want to get better, so it doesn't matter what they learn at school or what label somebody put in them when they join the company.…

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