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Lenny’s Podcast118 min

Inside Linear: Building with taste, craft, and focus

Karri Saarinen · Oct 8, 2023
Key learnings
  • Ship features early to a small set of users or internal teammates and polish only at general release, rather than perfecting…
  • Co-create early features with one or a few large customers to clarify how complex workflows should actually work.
  • Give project teams ownership of their features; craft often emerges when engineers and designers discover better interaction…
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Lenny’s Newsletter♥ 336

How Linear builds product

Sep 26, 2023 · 15 min
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Lenny Rachitsky profiles how Linear, the project-management tool, builds its product, based on an interview with CEO Karri Saarinen. The post's core argument is that a small, craft-focused setup works well: no dedicated…

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@lennysan · Lenny Rachitsky on X♥ 93
Linear CEO @karrisaarinen: "Making products produces two things: the product, and the learning. The effort you put into building and designing things teaches you something about what the problem is, what the customers want. We're in this time now that there's this danger of
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Lenny’s Podcast26 min

Interview Q Compilation

Interview Q Compilation · Nov 29, 2023
Key learnings
  • Ask 'To what do you attribute your success?' and watch for self-awareness and curiosity rather than an answer like 'luck' (Eeke…
  • Ask 'What's the hardest thing you've ever done?' to learn how a candidate defines difficulty, how they overcame it, and how much…
  • Use the teleportation-device 'Eigenquestion' exercise: candidates may ask only two questions, then must plan, revealing how they…
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