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Competing Against Luck
“The first is deeply understand people, and I think we talked about this a little bit with the jobs to be done point and Clayton Christensen's book, which I loved around Competing Against Luck.”
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book / recommends
Competing Against Luck
“I mean, definitely the two I mentioned here. Clayton Christensen, Competing Against Luck. Don Norman, Design of Everyday Things. But I also really love this for fiction, Aurora, which is this book David Koepp wrote. It's about electromagnetic pulse in the sun that knocks out, it's fiction for just fun. And it was a really fun beach read and apparently it was going to be made into a Netflix show, it didn't work out. I don't know. It was sad to see that fall apart, but so it's a really fun book.”
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Aurora
“I mean, definitely the two I mentioned here. Clayton Christensen, Competing Against Luck. Don Norman, Design of Everyday Things. But I also really love this for fiction, Aurora, which is this book David Koepp wrote. It's about electromagnetic pulse in the sun that knocks out, it's fiction for just fun. And it was a really fun beach read and apparently it was going to be made into a Netflix show, it didn't work out. I don't know. It was sad to see that fall apart, but so it's a really fun book.”
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Design of Everyday Things
“I mean, definitely the two I mentioned here. Clayton Christensen, Competing Against Luck. Don Norman, Design of Everyday Things. But I also really love this for fiction, Aurora, which is this book David Koepp wrote. It's about electromagnetic pulse in the sun that knocks out, it's fiction for just fun. And it was a really fun beach read and apparently it was going to be made into a Netflix show, it didn't work out. I don't know. It was sad to see that fall apart, but so it's a really fun book.”
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01 / recommendation
Recommends Competing Against Luck. Recommends Design of Everyday Things. Recommends Aurora.
“I mean, definitely the two I mentioned here. Clayton Christensen, Competing Against Luck. Don Norman, Design of Everyday Things. But I also really love this for fiction, Aurora, which is this book David Koepp wrote. It's about electromagnetic pulse in the sun that knocks out, it's fiction for just fun. And it was a really fun beach read and apparently it was going to be made into a Netflix show, it didn't work out. I don't know. It was sad to see that fall apart, but so it's a really fun book.”
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- Robby Stein
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- Lenny's Podcast
02 / recommendation
Likes Competing Against Luck.
“The first is deeply understand people, and I think we talked about this a little bit with the jobs to be done point and Clayton Christensen's book, which I loved around Competing Against Luck.”
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- Robby Stein
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- Lenny's Podcast
03 / belief
Why might this not be working? And the people who really have that level of intense curiosity and they chase things down until they know, I think you're well served by that.
“Why might this not be working? And the people who really have that level of intense curiosity and they chase things down until they know, I think you're well served by that.”
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- Robby Stein
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- Lenny's Podcast
04 / belief
" I think we said something, I don't remember all the details, but it was something like tomorrow.
“" I think we said something, I don't remember all the details, but it was something like tomorrow.”
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- Robby Stein
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- Lenny's Podcast
05 / belief
I think that was one of the earlier ones, yeah, but every time you ship something there's a slightly different reason why.
“I think that was one of the earlier ones, yeah, but every time you ship something there's a slightly different reason why.”
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- Robby Stein
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- Lenny's Podcast
06 / belief
I mean honestly, this Close Friends example, I can give you more from Instagram days was really wild. It took two or three years to get Close Friends to work, and I think people, it totally failed originally.
“I mean honestly, this Close Friends example, I can give you more from Instagram days was really wild. It took two or three years to get Close Friends to work, and I think people, it totally failed originally.”
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- Robby Stein
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- Lenny's Podcast
07 / belief
I mean, there's typically three things I think about. If I were to write a book about how to build great products, there'd be three chapters.
“I mean, there's typically three things I think about. If I were to write a book about how to build great products, there'd be three chapters.”
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- Robby Stein
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- Lenny's Podcast
08 / prediction
This is more like helping you find images on the web, so it's a little bit more like AI inspiration, AI image search, and allowing you to then talk with two effectively visual responses with natural language. So that's going to I think, be a little bit different than edit this photo so that it changes it.
“This is more like helping you find images on the web, so it's a little bit more like AI inspiration, AI image search, and allowing you to then talk with two effectively visual responses with natural language. So that's going to I think, be a little bit different than edit this photo so that it changes it.”
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- Robby Stein
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- Lenny's Podcast
09 / preference
Dune, of course. And I thought the new Top Gun is a little old now, but I think the new Top Gun was so fun and awesome.
“Dune, of course. And I thought the new Top Gun is a little old now, but I think the new Top Gun was so fun and awesome.”
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- Robby Stein
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- Lenny's Podcast
10 / preference
I'm using AI, I'm particularly at Google to help discover all these cool links and things to read, but I find that that is an interesting hybrid where it's not just AI but really going to original sources more.
“I'm using AI, I'm particularly at Google to help discover all these cool links and things to read, but I find that that is an interesting hybrid where it's not just AI but really going to original sources more.”
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- Robby Stein
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- Lenny's Podcast
11 / evaluation
They want to know about animals, they want to know about certain, I don't know, history things. They learn about something in school, and it's so natural to learn in that way that I think that that's helping them become much more AI native than any other thing I'm doing.
“They want to know about animals, they want to know about certain, I don't know, history things. They learn about something in school, and it's so natural to learn in that way that I think that that's helping them become much more AI native than any other thing I'm doing.”
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- Robby Stein
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- Lenny's Podcast
12 / evaluation
Otherwise, if you don't know where you're headed and you don't have a goal of what you're trying to do more quantitatively, it's really hard to know if the thing you're doing is mattering to anyone. I think I made the product better, but is anyone using it?
“Otherwise, if you don't know where you're headed and you don't have a goal of what you're trying to do more quantitatively, it's really hard to know if the thing you're doing is mattering to anyone. I think I made the product better, but is anyone using it?”
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- Robby Stein
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- Lenny's Podcast
13 / preference
I think a lot about this job to be done framework, which is one of the things that I'm a big fan of and Clayton Christensen's book on Competing Against Luck is one of my favorite books on this topic where you have to really be a student of causation.
“I think a lot about this job to be done framework, which is one of the things that I'm a big fan of and Clayton Christensen's book on Competing Against Luck is one of my favorite books on this topic where you have to really be a student of causation.”
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- Robby Stein
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
14 / evaluation
I think an interesting lesson in all of those, and particularly in Stories was you have to really understand why someone uses your product and know when something is actually an existential question because there's just a better format or a different way of doing something that has worked and works and you need to figure out what that might mean for you, because not every great thing is going to be invented by you.
“I think an interesting lesson in all of those, and particularly in Stories was you have to really understand why someone uses your product and know when something is actually an existential question because there's just a better format or a different way of doing something that has worked and works and you need to figure out what that might mean for you, because not every great thing is going to be invented by you.”
- Speaker
- Robby Stein
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast