app / likes
ChatGPT
“I love ChatGPT so much, and the way the model comes off, and the vibe of the model, is largely because of this technical plus taste role that she has created and she's leading.”
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Peter Deng
Published podcast speaker
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- 26
- Episodes
- 1
- Shows
- 1
- Named items
- 4
Books, apps, and tools
The evidenced stack.
book / recommends
The Silk Roads
“This is easy for me. Number one is Sapiens. If you're a product person, you have to understand our own humanity if you want to build products for people, straight up. That's a beautiful book. I read it before it was called Sapiens, it was called From Animals to Gods, and it was just republished in a different name, but it has really stuck with me and I remember, it's a very short, easy read, so I'd recommend that. The second book I think for product folks is a classic one, which is The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman. This may seem outdated and old, but I promise you it's not. It really helps you understand physical product design, which is again, things that mold and shape to humanity. I think it gives you a good sense of that. Third book is something I'm reading right now it was recommended by a friend of mine and I can't put it down. It's called The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan. And basically this is a recounting of history through the lens of The Silk Road and the Middle East and how that's evolved. It's so fascinating because one of the things I love, Lenny, is seeing things from different perspectives. This is why travel's fun, this is why user research is fun for me, and it really helps you see the events of world history that we've all been experiencing through a very western viewpoint in a different way. And it kind of connects a bunch of things that are like, there's Western thought, there's Eastern thought, but if you see the connection between them, it's super fascinating. I'm only two, three or maybe four chapters in, but definitely something I would recommend off the bat.”
book / recommends
Sapiens
“This is easy for me. Number one is Sapiens. If you're a product person, you have to understand our own humanity if you want to build products for people, straight up. That's a beautiful book. I read it before it was called Sapiens, it was called From Animals to Gods, and it was just republished in a different name, but it has really stuck with me and I remember, it's a very short, easy read, so I'd recommend that. The second book I think for product folks is a classic one, which is The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman. This may seem outdated and old, but I promise you it's not. It really helps you understand physical product design, which is again, things that mold and shape to humanity. I think it gives you a good sense of that. Third book is something I'm reading right now it was recommended by a friend of mine and I can't put it down. It's called The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan. And basically this is a recounting of history through the lens of The Silk Road and the Middle East and how that's evolved. It's so fascinating because one of the things I love, Lenny, is seeing things from different perspectives. This is why travel's fun, this is why user research is fun for me, and it really helps you see the events of world history that we've all been experiencing through a very western viewpoint in a different way. And it kind of connects a bunch of things that are like, there's Western thought, there's Eastern thought, but if you see the connection between them, it's super fascinating. I'm only two, three or maybe four chapters in, but definitely something I would recommend off the bat.”
book / recommends
The Design of Everyday Things
“This is easy for me. Number one is Sapiens. If you're a product person, you have to understand our own humanity if you want to build products for people, straight up. That's a beautiful book. I read it before it was called Sapiens, it was called From Animals to Gods, and it was just republished in a different name, but it has really stuck with me and I remember, it's a very short, easy read, so I'd recommend that. The second book I think for product folks is a classic one, which is The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman. This may seem outdated and old, but I promise you it's not. It really helps you understand physical product design, which is again, things that mold and shape to humanity. I think it gives you a good sense of that. Third book is something I'm reading right now it was recommended by a friend of mine and I can't put it down. It's called The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan. And basically this is a recounting of history through the lens of The Silk Road and the Middle East and how that's evolved. It's so fascinating because one of the things I love, Lenny, is seeing things from different perspectives. This is why travel's fun, this is why user research is fun for me, and it really helps you see the events of world history that we've all been experiencing through a very western viewpoint in a different way. And it kind of connects a bunch of things that are like, there's Western thought, there's Eastern thought, but if you see the connection between them, it's super fascinating. I'm only two, three or maybe four chapters in, but definitely something I would recommend off the bat.”
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What Peter said.
13 transcript-backed records
01 / belief
At age nine he could think about that, whereas being at age nine, I was playing with Legos and maybe QBasic. And so this idea of how young human's brains will evolve because of this new tool we have is going to change the way I think we're going to do education.
“At age nine he could think about that, whereas being at age nine, I was playing with Legos and maybe QBasic. And so this idea of how young human's brains will evolve because of this new tool we have is going to change the way I think we're going to do education.”
- Speaker
- Peter Deng
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
02 / belief
There's some companies I've invested in that aren't public yet that have their own take on that, which is really interesting to be able to take whatever activity is in their product to get smarter at the thing that they are doing, again, which is why I think the data flywheel and the workflow goes so hand in hand together, because if you are solving something actually valuable for businesses, for people, and there's a lot of that attention that's being paid to, a lot of work is being done through it, you're going to have that edge.
“There's some companies I've invested in that aren't public yet that have their own take on that, which is really interesting to be able to take whatever activity is in their product to get smarter at the thing that they are doing, again, which is why I think the data flywheel and the workflow goes so hand in hand together, because if you are solving something actually valuable for businesses, for people, and there's a lot of that attention that's being paid to, a lot of work is being done through it, you're going to have that edge.”
- Speaker
- Peter Deng
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
03 / belief
I think that for them, having the right data, and that right data flywheel's is so important.
“I think that for them, having the right data, and that right data flywheel's is so important.”
- Speaker
- Peter Deng
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
04 / belief
I would love to. I think now I got nothing to hide. I'm just like, "Here, I'm an open book.
“I would love to. I think now I got nothing to hide. I'm just like, "Here, I'm an open book.”
- Speaker
- Peter Deng
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
05 / belief
You got to be able to have that vision, have that clear direction, and be able to really go chase that. I think that's really important.
“You got to be able to have that vision, have that clear direction, and be able to really go chase that. I think that's really important.”
- Speaker
- Peter Deng
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
06 / belief
I think that the reason why growth team is the advice I would go with rather than to build an analytics team is because if you build an analytics team or a data science team, it's possible that no one's going to listen to them.
“I think that the reason why growth team is the advice I would go with rather than to build an analytics team is because if you build an analytics team or a data science team, it's possible that no one's going to listen to them.”
- Speaker
- Peter Deng
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
07 / belief
I grew up speaking Chinese and I think that there's a lot of things of just the Chinese language that I feel like I noticed, I thought differently when I learned English.
“I grew up speaking Chinese and I think that there's a lot of things of just the Chinese language that I feel like I noticed, I thought differently when I learned English.”
- Speaker
- Peter Deng
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
08 / belief
I think we should jump right in because I feel like you've extracted every little ounce of what wisdom I had here and you did a great job here just helping me remember these stories and recounting stuff, so I'm ready to jump in.
“I think we should jump right in because I feel like you've extracted every little ounce of what wisdom I had here and you did a great job here just helping me remember these stories and recounting stuff, so I'm ready to jump in.”
- Speaker
- Peter Deng
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
09 / belief
I'm just going to go with Granola because I think that we talked about this before, but this has been a superpower for me and I have a lot of commute time now.
“I'm just going to go with Granola because I think that we talked about this before, but this has been a superpower for me and I have a lot of commute time now.”
- Speaker
- Peter Deng
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
10 / belief
I guess the last thing I would say is I want to make sure that sometimes in the pursuit of numbers, product folks lose sight of the importance of taste and craft.
“I guess the last thing I would say is I want to make sure that sometimes in the pursuit of numbers, product folks lose sight of the importance of taste and craft.”
- Speaker
- Peter Deng
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
11 / belief
I think there's a lot of people who are kind of introverted, and don't want to draw attention, and don't have the hero complex.
“I think there's a lot of people who are kind of introverted, and don't want to draw attention, and don't have the hero complex.”
- Speaker
- Peter Deng
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
12 / belief
I think that's one thing. But yeah, I think that data flywheel thing is really interesting because the models will get really good at whatever data you show it, and that's one of the things that people just think that AI is such a magic wand.
“I think that's one thing. But yeah, I think that data flywheel thing is really interesting because the models will get really good at whatever data you show it, and that's one of the things that people just think that AI is such a magic wand.”
- Speaker
- Peter Deng
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
13 / belief
Absolutely. So I would say early stage seed, seed plus and A is where I really get excited.
“Absolutely. So I would say early stage seed, seed plus and A is where I really get excited.”
- Speaker
- Peter Deng
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast