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LinkedIn’s product evolution and the art of building complex systems | Hari Srinivasan (LinkedIn)

16 Jul 2023 22 published claims 2 attributable people

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01 / recommendation

Recommends Thinking in Systems. Recommends Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow.

“The first one is called Thinking in Systems. It's the one I give the team every now and then. It's just a really good book about how I think sometimes people see systems. Can we talk about it? It could be abstract. I think it goes into real detail on how people can intervene at various parts and how to take actions at different systems. I really enjoy that book. Not directly maybe a book I recommend, but a book that I just read that I thought was phenomenal, just to give it to readers if they want something good, it's called Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. It was recommending by a friend. Have you read it? You read it?”
Speaker
Hari Srinivasan
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

03 / belief

First, it is that feeling of, you got to own your product and you got to speak up and say this is where I want to drive it. Because a lot of times I think people are scared to do that, or worried about doing that, or don't feel that's their actual role.

“First, it is that feeling of, you got to own your product and you got to speak up and say this is where I want to drive it. Because a lot of times I think people are scared to do that, or worried about doing that, or don't feel that's their actual role.”
Speaker
Hari Srinivasan
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

04 / belief

If you have experience in that industry and you're able to show that you have experience in that industry or some kind of understanding of it, I think that's a way to separate.

“If you have experience in that industry and you're able to show that you have experience in that industry or some kind of understanding of it, I think that's a way to separate.”
Speaker
Hari Srinivasan
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

05 / belief

I think as we've created telemetry around that or organizational understanding of that, how we've understood ourselves, just, "Hey, this is the skillset that's really important here," I think that's quite rare in driving that kind of complexity system as well.

“I think as we've created telemetry around that or organizational understanding of that, how we've understood ourselves, just, "Hey, this is the skillset that's really important here," I think that's quite rare in driving that kind of complexity system as well.”
Speaker
Hari Srinivasan
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

06 / belief

I think having clarity on which piece of the ecosystem is going to be where the focus is, it helps us make sure we establish a relationship of trust first, make sure to understand who's getting access to data, make sure we understand how decisions are being made.

“I think having clarity on which piece of the ecosystem is going to be where the focus is, it helps us make sure we establish a relationship of trust first, make sure to understand who's getting access to data, make sure we understand how decisions are being made.”
Speaker
Hari Srinivasan
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

07 / uncertainty

The third one that I just downloaded because I finished it, I'm actually going to open up my audiobook and tell you because I'm about, I don't know, an hour into and I'm really enjoying it, it is An Immense World.

“The third one that I just downloaded because I finished it, I'm actually going to open up my audiobook and tell you because I'm about, I don't know, an hour into and I'm really enjoying it, it is An Immense World.”
Speaker
Hari Srinivasan
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

08 / belief

I think what's happened over time is we've gotten more and more clear with what our members really want, which is this ability to feel close to those relationships and the ability to really get that knowledge that they need.

“I think what's happened over time is we've gotten more and more clear with what our members really want, which is this ability to feel close to those relationships and the ability to really get that knowledge that they need.”
Speaker
Hari Srinivasan
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

09 / belief

Reminds me of a tweet I think I just saw. Maybe it was an Instagram post of teams that do stand-ups while doing a plank, to keep the meeting really short.

“Reminds me of a tweet I think I just saw. Maybe it was an Instagram post of teams that do stand-ups while doing a plank, to keep the meeting really short.”
Speaker
Lenny Rachitsky
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

10 / uncertainty

I think with your vantage point at being at the center of hiring, a lot is changing within the hiring marketplace in the past, I don't know, year at this point, where it used to be very candidate-oriented, where they had all the power and they salaries were crazy.

“I think with your vantage point at being at the center of hiring, a lot is changing within the hiring marketplace in the past, I don't know, year at this point, where it used to be very candidate-oriented, where they had all the power and they salaries were crazy.”
Speaker
Lenny Rachitsky
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

12 / uncertainty

I'm just as a, I don't know, armchair quarterback strategy person, I could see where this came from of we're trying to help people connect to economic opportunity, find jobs.

“I'm just as a, I don't know, armchair quarterback strategy person, I could see where this came from of we're trying to help people connect to economic opportunity, find jobs.”
Speaker
Lenny Rachitsky
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

14 / evaluation

The first thing that happened was, and maybe in my opinion, one of the big changes to the world that no one's really talking about it to my degree is the impact of it, but there's been a real move to skills-based hiring.

“The first thing that happened was, and maybe in my opinion, one of the big changes to the world that no one's really talking about it to my degree is the impact of it, but there's been a real move to skills-based hiring.”
Speaker
Hari Srinivasan
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

15 / evaluation

I think that the skills you need to manage a complicated ecosystem versus maybe the skills you need to design something that's less interconnected are quite different.

“I think that the skills you need to manage a complicated ecosystem versus maybe the skills you need to design something that's less interconnected are quite different.”
Speaker
Hari Srinivasan
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

16 / recommendation

I would argue the most important thing is to have a single name on that decision line, because that usually makes sure that you can get a decision very quickly.

“I would argue the most important thing is to have a single name on that decision line, because that usually makes sure that you can get a decision very quickly.”
Speaker
Hari Srinivasan
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

17 / evaluation

We might think of it from the outset as very different things, but inside, even the way we operate and the way we think about it, it's a very, very connected ecosystem.

“We might think of it from the outset as very different things, but inside, even the way we operate and the way we think about it, it's a very, very connected ecosystem.”
Speaker
Hari Srinivasan
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

19 / recommendation

That in five days if someone has something that they haven't been able to escalate and solve, that's probably then on the next level of person. But as you run that ecosystem and there's so much complexity around it, I think you need some of those processes in place in order to start answering some of those tiebreakers, if you will.

“That in five days if someone has something that they haven't been able to escalate and solve, that's probably then on the next level of person. But as you run that ecosystem and there's so much complexity around it, I think you need some of those processes in place in order to start answering some of those tiebreakers, if you will.”
Speaker
Hari Srinivasan
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

20 / evaluation

I know you don't work on all parts of LinkedIn and don't necessarily know everything that's going on there, but something I've noticed that's pretty major is, it feels like LinkedIn's really made this move from being a very cringey place to post and spend time to, it's actually now interesting.

“I know you don't work on all parts of LinkedIn and don't necessarily know everything that's going on there, but something I've noticed that's pretty major is, it feels like LinkedIn's really made this move from being a very cringey place to post and spend time to, it's actually now interesting.”
Speaker
Lenny Rachitsky
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

21 / preference

If you're able to get into something that people really love and feel that and experience that, and really understand what that looks like and what it takes to get there, I think that's actually been a really valuable lesson throughout my career because you can understand the whole path on the way up.

“If you're able to get into something that people really love and feel that and experience that, and really understand what that looks like and what it takes to get there, I think that's actually been a really valuable lesson throughout my career because you can understand the whole path on the way up.”
Speaker
Hari Srinivasan
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

22 / recommendation

I would really encourage people to do that because when people are in recruiter and they're looking for skills, profiles pop up and you can scroll over a skill and you can actually see all those evidences.

“I would really encourage people to do that because when people are in recruiter and they're looking for skills, profiles pop up and you can scroll over a skill and you can actually see all those evidences.”
Speaker
Hari Srinivasan
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast
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