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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 / recommendation
“It's such a point I've never heard before, this idea of when you're demoing, demo as narrow a slice of the product as you can that addresses their priorities and needs. Because to your point, they may feel like, "Why do we need all this stuff?”
02 / recommendation
“You want to pitch them two or three sentences in a text or an email or at a conference. And the key is to focus on the alpha, what your product will unlock for them.”
03 / recommendation
“Yeah, Eli's book is still useful. I don't know how many years later? Amazing.”
04 / recommendation
“It is better to not assume we need a PM in every place.”
05 / recommendation
“I love Waymo. It's just like, once you see it, you're just like, This is insane.”
06 / recommendation
“" Share the story of the brain injury that you went through and just the journey that you went on there because this is going to blow people's minds.”
07 / recommendation
“Then there's your advice of ask people that know them, what is top of mind for them right now? Because they may be like, "This is the big bet we're making right now.”
08 / recommendation
“Just to make it very clear for people, because it's easy to just like, "Yeah, okay, I'll just expand my horizon," basically, the advice here is just think on behalf of the entire business, not just your feature, not just your little goal.”
09 / recommendation
“I love John Klassen books. They're so beautiful and just sweet, so those have been really great.”
10 / recommendation
“It's like he decides what his favorite are. I love John Klassen books. They're so beautiful and just sweet, so those have been really great.”
11 / recommendation
“AI handles the recruiting toil and gives you a real source of truth. That means hours saved for hire and a team focused on what matters most: winning the right candidates.”
12 / recommendation
“I think the way I describe it is your job as a product manager is to deliver business impact by prioritizing and solving the most impactful business problems.”
13 / recommendation
“What I'm hearing is this ready, fire, aim is the approach more than ready, aim, fire. And there's something, and as you process that, because that may not come across well, but I actually have heard this a lot at AI companies is because you don't know, and Nick Turley shared I think the same sentiment, because you don't know how people will use it it doesn't make sense to spend a lot of time making it perfect.”
14 / recommendation
“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.”
15 / recommendation
“I think one is at least skip a week or two of the newsletter and just actually stick to that plan.”
16 / recommendation
“And then now I can't live without Slack. And essentially this is a lens you use to figure out where to spend product resources because if you don't get up that curve to I get it and I can't live without it, nothing else matters.”
17 / recommendation
“I love that you are the person being like, "Guys, I think we should make FigJam.”
18 / recommendation
“It's flexible, so it adapts to the way your team works and helps you build a roadmap that drives alignment, not questions. And because it's built on Jira, you can track ideas from strategy to delivery all in one place.”
19 / recommendation
“The Superhost example is actually really interesting because I built the Superhost program.”
20 / recommendation
“Yeah, let's do it. I use Discover Weekly all the time.”
21 / recommendation
“Okay. By the way, I want to make it clear, I love Claude. I use Claude and ChatGPT equally, roughly.”
22 / recommendation
“I love Claude. I use Claude and ChatGPT equally, roughly. I didn't want to make it sound like ChatGPT is the only product people use”
23 / recommendation
“What I love about this is this is something that I've seen a bunch is having a very specific problem to solve for yourself is a really good way to build and get into these tools because you're motivated to solve a problem and it's a specific thing that you're doing versus just generally, "I'm going to go sit around and play with Lovable.”
24 / recommendation
“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.”
25 / recommendation
“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.”
26 / recommendation
“I don't know, I'm thinking about the Technology Bros podcast on Twitter right now, TBPN, where they basically figured out on Twitter you can create this livestream and you see it all day in your Twitter feed just like, hey, they're broadcasting, and it's a really cool distribution channel.”
27 / recommendation
“I like optimistic takes about AI, so this is great. And to your point, TBD if this is good for other countries, but good for the US.”
28 / recommendation
“I love how everything connects to how tech works and how AI came to be. I love this.”
29 / recommendation
“Essentially his feedback is, wait as long as possible to start any sort of sketch or prototype, because as soon as you start drawing what you're building, now everything you do will be a response to that.”
30 / recommendation
“The first is right at the beginning, coming back to a lesson you shared at the beginning, which is build for specific people. So initially it was build for yourself, build for your girlfriend, build for the Scouts program, and then it was built for these three friends, just building it, sitting with them, building the things they need to use it, which is really interesting because a lot of times the advice you get is look for pull, look for people with problems to solve.”
31 / recommendation
“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.”
32 / recommendation
“replacement for Auth0 and supports up to 1 million monthly active users for free. Check it out at workos.”
33 / recommendation
“I love Ender's Game. I've read them all.”
34 / recommendation
“Yeah. For me when I use Claude for coming up with interview questions and just suggestions of... It's actually really good.”
35 / recommendation
“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.”
36 / recommendation
“I love the reward loop of Emily getting this shout-out right now. This is so meta.”
37 / recommendation
“One of them is like, "I joined Whoop just to work with Hilary and to report to her." And of that, there's this theme that emerged that I think is a good overarching theme for our conversation, and it's something that you spend a lot of time thinking about, and it's how to help your team and how to help people within your company learn to take a punch.”
38 / recommendation
“There's a book that I loved that is for writing and the title is Nobody Wants to Read Your Shit.”
39 / recommendation
“I am a huge fan of Granola. I'll give a quick picture here. If you become an annual subscriber of my newsletter, you get a year free of Granola for your entire company.”