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Elizabeth Stone

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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“It's probably a little recency bias, but I've been recommending What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Murakami, which talks about introspection about the similarities between running and writing as sort of flow states and very meditative things. So I had read some of his fiction books and the autobiographical reflection on these types of either professions or hobbies I think is very insightful. So that's one. And then one of my longtime favorite books is A Fine Balance by Mistry. And that is just a great story of human complexity and challenge and relationships. So I'm drawn to both books and TV and film that are about humans.”

Lenny's Podcast · 22 Feb 2024

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01 / evaluation

I think the best people want to know there's going to be a blameless retro and they're going to feel so individually responsible that they're going to say, "How do I make sure this doesn't happen again?

“I think the best people want to know there's going to be a blameless retro and they're going to feel so individually responsible that they're going to say, "How do I make sure this doesn't happen again?”
Speaker
Elizabeth Stone
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

03 / recommendation

And what are the bumpers or guardrails I should keep in mind? I think we need to encode that in our paved paths and our ways of working.

“And what are the bumpers or guardrails I should keep in mind? I think we need to encode that in our paved paths and our ways of working.”
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Elizabeth Stone
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

04 / evaluation

It's a thing going back since the beginning of time, that storytelling has been a key part of community, and social networks, and human feeling and connection. So, I love the idea that technology can amplify that and can bring that to life in very new, novel, exciting ways.

“It's a thing going back since the beginning of time, that storytelling has been a key part of community, and social networks, and human feeling and connection. So, I love the idea that technology can amplify that and can bring that to life in very new, novel, exciting ways.”
Speaker
Elizabeth Stone
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

05 / evaluation

I wouldn't spend too long in the questioning state, because then you're stuck, then you're not making forward progress. But I think that helps people to think in terms of systems, and question that, are we solving the right problem in the right way that matters for the end consumer?

“I wouldn't spend too long in the questioning state, because then you're stuck, then you're not making forward progress. But I think that helps people to think in terms of systems, and question that, are we solving the right problem in the right way that matters for the end consumer?”
Speaker
Elizabeth Stone
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

09 / belief

I don't debate that either. But I think there's going to be a broad range and I think Netflix needs to be at the center of shaping that and bringing that to life, which is our plan.

“I don't debate that either. But I think there's going to be a broad range and I think Netflix needs to be at the center of shaping that and bringing that to life, which is our plan.”
Speaker
Elizabeth Stone
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

10 / belief

I have a hard time picturing entertainment that doesn't have humans at the heart of it. So, that's humans in the creation of the storytelling, which I think is a scarce and valuable skill.

“I have a hard time picturing entertainment that doesn't have humans at the heart of it. So, that's humans in the creation of the storytelling, which I think is a scarce and valuable skill.”
Speaker
Elizabeth Stone
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

11 / belief

Culture needs to grow and evolve as the company gets bigger, the types of problems you're solving, change. But the notion that we're going for excellence and trusting that exceptional talent needs to be able to do their best work, that's unchanged and something that I think continues to be a special sauce for us.

“Culture needs to grow and evolve as the company gets bigger, the types of problems you're solving, change. But the notion that we're going for excellence and trusting that exceptional talent needs to be able to do their best work, that's unchanged and something that I think continues to be a special sauce for us.”
Speaker
Elizabeth Stone
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

12 / evaluation

" But every time we saw that and we added more process, we spent more time without getting better outcomes. And so, it's another unnatural thing that I think everyone's inclination when things are hard and complicated, is you think you're simplifying the problem by putting a lot of constraints around it.

“" But every time we saw that and we added more process, we spent more time without getting better outcomes. And so, it's another unnatural thing that I think everyone's inclination when things are hard and complicated, is you think you're simplifying the problem by putting a lot of constraints around it.”
Speaker
Elizabeth Stone
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

13 / evaluation

I feel like the way that has shown up in career ladders and how we talk about it evolves almost by the quarter, if not month or day, because the tech itself is advancing so much.

“I feel like the way that has shown up in career ladders and how we talk about it evolves almost by the quarter, if not month or day, because the tech itself is advancing so much.”
Speaker
Elizabeth Stone
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

14 / commitment

None of that is going away. So, if I think about more junior or earlier career talent on the teams, we need to be investing just as much in the mentorship of this is what good looks like.

“None of that is going away. So, if I think about more junior or earlier career talent on the teams, we need to be investing just as much in the mentorship of this is what good looks like.”
Speaker
Elizabeth Stone
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

15 / evaluation

" But that impact is extremely promising and we're seeing lots of productions leverage different tools, some of them built in-house, some of them that we enable through other vendors for those content creation use cases. And then as we think about how content comes to the product, I mentioned localization, subtitles and dubs, but also how we create high quality trailers, images, artwork at scale that then we can use to help make sure that titles find their audiences around the world.

“" But that impact is extremely promising and we're seeing lots of productions leverage different tools, some of them built in-house, some of them that we enable through other vendors for those content creation use cases. And then as we think about how content comes to the product, I mentioned localization, subtitles and dubs, but also how we create high quality trailers, images, artwork at scale that then we can use to help make sure that titles find their audiences around the world.”
Speaker
Elizabeth Stone
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

16 / evaluation

I think there's a difference between being able to write lines of code in a particular language, like Python or C++ and understanding how code, computer systems, products work.

“I think there's a difference between being able to write lines of code in a particular language, like Python or C++ and understanding how code, computer systems, products work.”
Speaker
Elizabeth Stone
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

17 / evaluation

We're solving the right problems in a way that is best for Netflix members or business stakeholders. And that if I talk to an engineer, a data scientist, a designer, yes, they speak more languages now than they used to because they have the benefit of these AI tools, but there's still something that is not replaceable when I think about the craft and how they think about what good looks like.

“We're solving the right problems in a way that is best for Netflix members or business stakeholders. And that if I talk to an engineer, a data scientist, a designer, yes, they speak more languages now than they used to because they have the benefit of these AI tools, but there's still something that is not replaceable when I think about the craft and how they think about what good looks like.”
Speaker
Elizabeth Stone
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

18 / recommendation

If I take another example, like design, it's extremely important that our experienced design team is developing templates and again, systems thinking for what does great user design look like at Netflix, so that they can enable lots of people, including those who are not designers by training, to develop products that are coherent, that fit into the end-to-end member experience.

“If I take another example, like design, it's extremely important that our experienced design team is developing templates and again, systems thinking for what does great user design look like at Netflix, so that they can enable lots of people, including those who are not designers by training, to develop products that are coherent, that fit into the end-to-end member experience.”
Speaker
Elizabeth Stone
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

19 / evaluation

" So, it's an anchor and an entry point for a conversation that can go lots of different directions. And the thing I like about it is it's good hygiene on feedback and checking in on how things are going and forcing a tough conversation sometimes, instead of shying away from it.

“" So, it's an anchor and an entry point for a conversation that can go lots of different directions. And the thing I like about it is it's good hygiene on feedback and checking in on how things are going and forcing a tough conversation sometimes, instead of shying away from it.”
Speaker
Elizabeth Stone
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

21 / recommendation

Recommends What I Talk About When I Talk About Running.

“It's probably a little recency bias, but I've been recommending What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Murakami, which talks about introspection about the similarities between running and writing as sort of flow states and very meditative things. So I had read some of his fiction books and the autobiographical reflection on these types of either professions or hobbies I think is very insightful. So that's one. And then one of my longtime favorite books is A Fine Balance by Mistry. And that is just a great story of human complexity and challenge and relationships. So I'm drawn to both books and TV and film that are about humans.”
Speaker
Elizabeth Stone
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

22 / belief

I think the way the listeners can be useful to me is being maybe curious about how they can show up even better in their lives now that we've done this reflection on Netflix culture and how we show up for other people.

“I think the way the listeners can be useful to me is being maybe curious about how they can show up even better in their lives now that we've done this reflection on Netflix culture and how we show up for other people.”
Speaker
Elizabeth Stone
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

24 / belief

I wish I was so advanced to say I meditate and I create all this structure. It's more that I think I mentioned maybe I'm an introvert, so I do spend some time alone.

“I wish I was so advanced to say I meditate and I create all this structure. It's more that I think I mentioned maybe I'm an introvert, so I do spend some time alone.”
Speaker
Elizabeth Stone
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

25 / preference

It's kind of related to what I was saying earlier, that talent density is a prerequisite for a lot of the other ways we operate. So if we want to create a work environment where we are not prescriptive about how people solve problems or the scope of problems that they could tackle, assuming they're highly impactful for the business, and we don't have a lot of process around that work, so think about being able to make large innovations to our engineering systems or introducing new ways to think about metrics and experimentation, we get a lot of those things because we give people the freedom and the space to explore and question things and experiment in a way with solutions.

“It's kind of related to what I was saying earlier, that talent density is a prerequisite for a lot of the other ways we operate. So if we want to create a work environment where we are not prescriptive about how people solve problems or the scope of problems that they could tackle, assuming they're highly impactful for the business, and we don't have a lot of process around that work, so think about being able to make large innovations to our engineering systems or introducing new ways to think about metrics and experimentation, we get a lot of those things because we give people the freedom and the space to explore and question things and experiment in a way with solutions.”
Speaker
Elizabeth Stone
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

26 / evaluation

" Not, "Could I spend another 20 hours to make it look like everything's perfect in this document?" And so I think in that sense it's not just excellence, like you wrote the perfect document, I should probably be careful to not use that as the only example, but instead we really got to the outcome we wanted to get to because we were thoughtful about it and we put a lot of energy and time and iteration into making sure we got to that outcome.

“" Not, "Could I spend another 20 hours to make it look like everything's perfect in this document?" And so I think in that sense it's not just excellence, like you wrote the perfect document, I should probably be careful to not use that as the only example, but instead we really got to the outcome we wanted to get to because we were thoughtful about it and we put a lot of energy and time and iteration into making sure we got to that outcome.”
Speaker
Elizabeth Stone
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

27 / evaluation

I think that that uplevels the whole organization because it means that we're able to be truth tellers or to be curious in a way that might not fit if we had a different organizational structure.

“I think that that uplevels the whole organization because it means that we're able to be truth tellers or to be curious in a way that might not fit if we had a different organizational structure.”
Speaker
Elizabeth Stone
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

28 / evaluation

I would say the biggest thing that changed is probably the amount of context switching and the degree to which I feel behind or I have a lot to learn. And I felt like I had a lot to learn in the VP of data and insights role that I was in before in part because we cover a lot of different areas of the business and there's always people to learn from, but the engineering organization just takes that to 100 basically.

“I would say the biggest thing that changed is probably the amount of context switching and the degree to which I feel behind or I have a lot to learn. And I felt like I had a lot to learn in the VP of data and insights role that I was in before in part because we cover a lot of different areas of the business and there's always people to learn from, but the engineering organization just takes that to 100 basically.”
Speaker
Elizabeth Stone
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

30 / prediction

I know that there's a lot of entertainment companies that have live content. But Netflix has really been in the streaming content business, so live content is something new for us and it's something that's going to require a really close partnership between our content organization and our products and technology organization because there's a content strategy to it, there's a business strategy, there's a technology strategy to it.

“I know that there's a lot of entertainment companies that have live content. But Netflix has really been in the streaming content business, so live content is something new for us and it's something that's going to require a really close partnership between our content organization and our products and technology organization because there's a content strategy to it, there's a business strategy, there's a technology strategy to it.”
Speaker
Elizabeth Stone
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

31 / preference

I think that framing in my mind and that motivation has helped me in a few fronts, which is the way in which I build partnerships with people I work with that I really care about setting other people up for success and being someone that people want to work with, so I learn from them, they learn from me, and we get better outcomes for the business together, I have found that part of that is being someone that people can leverage to translate from technical to non-technical and non-technical to technical.

“I think that framing in my mind and that motivation has helped me in a few fronts, which is the way in which I build partnerships with people I work with that I really care about setting other people up for success and being someone that people want to work with, so I learn from them, they learn from me, and we get better outcomes for the business together, I have found that part of that is being someone that people can leverage to translate from technical to non-technical and non-technical to technical.”
Speaker
Elizabeth Stone
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

32 / preference

It's part of the culture to context, not control, which means part of my job is to make sure that people have the context they need to do their jobs well. And in practice, that means I take notes in leadership meetings and I share those notes with the whole organization.

“It's part of the culture to context, not control, which means part of my job is to make sure that people have the context they need to do their jobs well. And in practice, that means I take notes in leadership meetings and I share those notes with the whole organization.”
Speaker
Elizabeth Stone
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

33 / preference

It's very consistent with especially the company cultures that I tend to thrive in where that's the general expectation of the culture. So you don't feel like you're doing it alone, because then I think you can start to feel frustrated by that.

“It's very consistent with especially the company cultures that I tend to thrive in where that's the general expectation of the culture. So you don't feel like you're doing it alone, because then I think you can start to feel frustrated by that.”
Speaker
Elizabeth Stone
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast
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