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Host · Lenny's Newsletter
Books, apps, and tools
other / uses
“I continue to be astounded by how much engineering has transformed in two years. It's like a completely different dropdown. We used to sit there in NID and write code, and now you're just talking to agents and reviewing code and shipping 100 PRs a day.”
service / likes
“I love Waymo. It's just like, once you see it, you're just like, This is insane.”
other / likes
“They don't have to raise money. They can just kind of go heads down and build, so I love so much about the story of Surge.”
app / uses
“Yeah, let's do it. I use Discover Weekly all the time.”
other / built
“The Superhost example is actually really interesting because I built the Superhost program.”
app / uses
“As an example, I use Claude and ChatGPT for coming up with title suggestions for these podcast episodes. And I give it examples of just examples of titles that have done well, and then it's 10 different examples, just bullet points.”
app / uses
“Yeah. For me when I use Claude for coming up with interview questions and just suggestions of... It's actually really good.”
app / likes
“Okay. By the way, I want to make it clear, I love Claude. I use Claude and ChatGPT equally, roughly.”
app / likes
“Speaking of apps, I was doing research on you in preparation for this and I didn't realize you built Quitter back in the day. I love Quitter.”
app / built
“Fun fact, I built an app once called Savorable that helped you savor the moment, it was called Savorable and it sent you a text every few hours, I don't know, maybe once a day with a little reminder of way to savor the moment.”
hardware / likes
“I love Sonos. I love the name. I have many Sonos products. How often does this happen where the client is just, "No, this is not the name.”
other / likes
“I love Ender's Game. I've read them all.”
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01 / preference
“I love that. So it's essentially don't just focus on, will this be an impactful experiment?”
02 / preference
“I love when books have never been mentioned before get added to the canon of recommended books.”
03 / preference
“One of your insights along these lines is that this is your advantage as a startup is to be less ambitious because a Zuck needs to go really big because the revenue is already so high.”
04 / preference
“I actually didn't give it access to even read my email because in theory, somebody could trick it to tell them everything about the email that it sees.”
05 / preference
“I'm trying to keep things really simple because it's so easy to build this thing into this whole thing that's complicated that I'm like, "What have I done?”
06 / preference
“Okay, another Halliganism, I don't know if you put it this way, the way I think about it is this idea of, "There's no such thing as a silver bullet, it just takes a lot of lead bullets to get something done.”
07 / preference
“I always used to tell people the key to being successful writing stuff online and just content in general is quality and consistency, but I've just more and more realized quality is actually the only thing that matters and the consistency doesn't matter.”
08 / preference
“Naval's always talking about that last book. I think I bought it and it was just hard reading this.”
09 / preference
“I don't use it that much, to be honest, but I should. My wife just doesn't love Grok.”
10 / preference
“Just the specific example of, "We don't sell saddles here," just to quickly communicate this to folks, and correct me if I'm missing anything, is just instead of, "Hey, look at this amazing saddle we've bought," which you want to communicate as, "Here, go horseback riding.”
11 / preference
“Because I use it for not building, I use it for just all the shell stuff. I'm like, "I want to install some package.”
12 / preference
“I started using Arc. I don't know if you've used Arc before, which is built on Chromium.”
13 / preference
“I love people like you that do the work for, I don't know, decades at this point, learn from real life experiences over and over and over, and then just share all this stuff with people.”
14 / preference
“I love that the term hypothesis is a part of this because it's not telling you this will work.”
15 / preference
“I love that offer. I think a lot of people are going to take advantage of that.”
16 / preference
“Talk about maybe, as we go through them, which one this is most helpful for because it's not just like, "Oh, cool, I'm just going to get a better answer from ChatGPT.”
17 / preference
“There's a concept that I love that recently I learned from Guillermo at Vercel. He calls it exposure hours.”