Lenny's Podcast / episode intelligence
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25 published records
01 / recommendation
“It's funny, I'm not a big, big book recommender. I think when people ask me, I do get asked about books for design, and I haven't found that many that really have stuck with me purely design. Although I will say I do love the Design of Everyday Things. I think that's such a classic.”
02 / prediction
“You believe this is the best time in history to be a designer.”
03 / uncertainty
“I tghink it's much better to be humble about it and be like, wow, yeah, I don't know.”
04 / belief
“Generally what we've seen is that we believe in this idea of this is sort of capability overhang where the product, vast majority of the people are getting a sliver of the true value that they could out of the model.”
05 / belief
“Of course they're going to continue to get better. But the way we think about it, and I really do believe this is we're building tools to enable people to be more creative, to do more, to build more.”
06 / belief
“I think that if you literally started today, you're going to have a leg up on pretty much most people.”
07 / belief
“There are probably going to be a bunch of companies that will be left behind because they haven't shifted, but I think that there's plenty of room for amazing great design and that's going to be more true than ever.”
08 / belief
“When we think of the super app, I think eventually we really think of the idea of, especially for our broad consumer base, we do think that there should be this one universal input that you can ask that knows when it needs to answer really quickly or should be chatty or whether it should go and go off and do work for you.”
09 / belief
“I've tried to carry that through to the way I think about building product at OpenAI, but that's not the only way I think of working.”
10 / belief
“If we come back to just my take on why designers are kind of frustrated and stressed right now is just there's less time to do design, the traditional design process.”
11 / belief
“I think that's an important thing. And part of that is thinking outside of the bounds of what you're working on and thinking across everything I think is becoming much more important.”
12 / uncertainty
“Elena Verna had this really great post. I don't know if you know her. She's head of growth at Lovable right now.”
13 / belief
“Not necessarily, other than I think trying to sum up how I felt about all of this is have fun with it and just try stuff.”
14 / belief
“Also point people to your website, which I have here now, and I think my face is probably changing colors because the site has all these crazy colors.”
15 / belief
“I think when people ask me, I do get asked about books for design, and I haven't found that many that really have stuck with me purely design.”
16 / prediction
“I think the thinking is getting stronger the more that they're using these tools. So I think for the people that are starting to embrace this, they're starting to feel really excited and realizing that they have just so much agency as designers and so much more ability to have really high impact as a designer.”
17 / recommendation
“Checking and making sure that important Slack messages that I need to follow up with are summarized and giving me context before important meetings or for recruiting or for every part of my process, I use this to augment the work that I do.”
18 / evaluation
“There's the alignment of getting many people, especially in a bigger company, that still has a lot of overhead. So the point is that I think that we're unclear right now what is expected of a designer and that lack of clarity I can see totally lead to some fears or some unease, I guess.”
19 / evaluation
“I think that internally we see that more and more designers, we are completely empowered, to take an idea, to take a early research concept and try to figure out how we can actually package that up into something that people want to use or that solves some sort of unmet need for our customers.”
20 / evaluation
“Because if you have one person that's expected to design, to rally a team around something, to align a whole company, to do all the work that a PM does, for example, and also be designing it and also be engineering it, it might be hard to find one person that's good at all of those different skills.”
21 / preference
“I always tell candidates, we do not expect you to have a background in AI because again, this is evolving so quickly, but we definitely expect high curiosity about it and high aptitude to jumping in and learning how you're going to use this in your process, how it works.”
22 / commitment
“I feel kind of like a typical Silicon Valley person recommending this one or something, but I did finally switch to an EV after having many cars for a long time.”
23 / evaluation
“And kind of surprisingly, designers and user researchers are just the most unhappy on every dimension, every actual dimension. They're the most overwhelmed, the most anxious, the least optimistic, the most worried, the most tired, also the least likely to recommend their role to people entering the workforce.”
24 / preference
“I think that we really embrace building in public, which is a different way of working. But I think that when you get comfortable with it is actually really gratifying or satisfying because you can try stuff and get instant feedback both internally and externally.”
25 / preference
“I think to be useful, again, I love when people do show off the way they're working and how that's shifting.”