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Diane Penn

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Claude

“A lot of actually thinking process and writing process are tied together for me personally. And so I think there are ways where I use Claude to augment my thinking, but what I want to make sure, and maybe this is what you're describing, is Claude doesn't take over all of my thinking for me.”

Lenny's Podcast · 26 Jul 2026

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How to Raise an Adult

“One personal one, I really like How to Raise an Adult. So I'm a mom. I think a lot about what is the things that I want to instill in my kids.”

Lenny's Podcast · 26 Jul 2026

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And my grandfather always says, no matter how far you go, there's always another level, which is, I think, a really good way, though a pretty intense way of describing his life philosophy.

“And my grandfather always says, no matter how far you go, there's always another level, which is, I think, a really good way, though a pretty intense way of describing his life philosophy.”
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Diane Penn
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Lenny's Podcast

03 / evaluation

So what we actually look for and the traits and how we evaluate generalists like PMs, generalists like research, product managers have actually been the same. So I think some of those traits, number one is first principles thinking.

“So what we actually look for and the traits and how we evaluate generalists like PMs, generalists like research, product managers have actually been the same. So I think some of those traits, number one is first principles thinking.”
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Diane Penn
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

04 / evaluation

I think there's some really interesting graphs in the original scaling law papers. And I think folks are very familiar with the scaling loss in the lens of as you add in more compute and data, what's called loss, AKA the loss from next token prediction goes down.

“I think there's some really interesting graphs in the original scaling law papers. And I think folks are very familiar with the scaling loss in the lens of as you add in more compute and data, what's called loss, AKA the loss from next token prediction goes down.”
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Diane Penn
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

05 / evaluation

I think one example is I think you think of a product manager as I own product strategy and delivering user value, but I demonstrate day-to-day by writing a PRD or writing a product vision doc.

“I think one example is I think you think of a product manager as I own product strategy and delivering user value, but I demonstrate day-to-day by writing a PRD or writing a product vision doc.”
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Diane Penn
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

06 / evaluation

On some of these other areas, we're not quite there yet. And so I think you're seeing us shift things like Claude Science investing in these areas because those are areas that I think is just bring this technology to society and having a positive benefit for society.

“On some of these other areas, we're not quite there yet. And so I think you're seeing us shift things like Claude Science investing in these areas because those are areas that I think is just bring this technology to society and having a positive benefit for society.”
Speaker
Diane Penn
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast
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