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11 published records
“First one that comes to mind is Switch, and it's really about how to affect organizational change, something that's Shishir recommended to me and we have the difficulty of affecting change in a large organization, basically, and how to overcome that. The second one I would say is my favorite book of all time is one called The Story of the Stone, and it's a Chinese novel, one of the most famous Chinese novels of all time. And it's thousands of pages. It all takes place in a garden, but it's one of the most beautiful piece of work I've read, so I like to recommend that, even though it's nothing to do with PM.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“We have this one called the Alignment Scale, which is a widget that you can insert into FigJam or Figma Design, actually. And we use it all the time.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I hear people talking about the five whys all the time, and I don't know, I haven't heard people actually using it.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“That is very clever, and not everyone's building collaboration software, but that is a really clever idea. And I think there's probably a bit of trickle down from Dylan's obsession with the product in making it, just continuing to just be obsessed with making a great experience combined with that, people using the product and this trickle down of we really need to make this as awesome as possible.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think a lot of it was about the level of intention around building community. And the more there are organic conversations happening about Figma, the better.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I believe Dylan made this social graph of the most influential designers on Twitter, and that was his go-to market strategy, get those designers on Figma, and then I think he open sourced his code to do that.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“They're hard for different reasons. I would say managing designers is harder than managing product managers.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I use it, I should've mentioned this, but I use it probably every day for my newsletter for illustrations and banners and all this stuff.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I guess the way to think about it is, put yourself in another user's shoes, and that user is someone who has no idea what's happening and still wants to understand, in a nuanced enough way, what you're grappling with.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Sometimes people are like, well, OKRs exist for a reason and this is, basically, an OKR with just a different name. So my honest sense is we still haven't figured it out and we're still iterating on a bunch of different things, but I think I've developed some philosophies around it, which is, no matter what you call it, because it doesn't matter as much.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Because I think as a PM, you're in the center facilitating all these different trade offs, and when you go into design, you have to ignore some of those other aspects to really be insistent on pushing on the best experience possible.”
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- Lenny's Podcast