Lenny’s Podcast121 min
Molly Graham · Sep 27, 2026
Key learnings- Change is scary and hard, but leaning into it and letting go of old responsibilities is still the best way to grow, even as the…
- Name the emotions change brings, including grief for lost craft; leaders who normalize these feelings help people feel less alone…
- Treat AI like a lazy junior intern: give it context, review its output, and never ship its work unchecked, since accountability…
Lenny’s Newsletter♥ 45
Oct 5, 2021 · 16 min
Subscriber post — summary onlyLenny Rachitsky shares a curated directory of roughly 200 favorite reads, listens, and watches on growth, startups, writing, angel investing, product management, leadership, and frameworks, cleaned up and expanded for…
Lenny’s Podcast155 min
Hilary Gridley · Jun 15, 2025
Key learnings- When you feel criticized, skip litigating what others think and instead take one small action that demonstrates the opposite of…
- Use behavioral activation: act first on a small, concrete step, since action tends to lift mood and break negative spirals rather…
- Speak up in meetings with valuable input; fear of saying the wrong thing is the main blocker, and building the skill to take a…
Lenny’s Newsletter · Free post♥ 8
Oct 22, 2019 · 10 min
“Hello and welcome to my humble newsletter, where I attempt to answer your questions and offer candid advice about building product, driving growth, working with other humans, and anything else that’s stressing you out at the office. 🤝 If you’re returning from last week, thank you! If you’re new, nice to have you! Help spread the word by telling your friends to sign up here. 🙏 New this week:The one and only Hiten Shah guest-answering…”
Lenny’s Podcast97 min
Matt Abrahams · Mar 31, 2024
Key learnings- Visualize the whole experience, from walking to the stage to stepping off, including the audience responding well, to desensitize…
- Prepare in order to be spontaneous; practice is what makes improvisation and on-the-spot speaking go well, as it does in…
- Strive for connection over perfection by daring to be dull: just answer the question and stop judging every word, which frees up…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresDec 17, 2014
Dec 17, 2014 · 6 min
Teresa Torres shares her favorite books from the roughly 60 she read in 2014, spanning music, decision making, mathematics, persuasion, negotiation, time perception, integrative thinking, customer development, and…
Lenny’s Podcast100 min
Zevi Arnovitz · Jan 18, 2026
Key learnings- Start slowly with a ChatGPT project acting as a skeptical 'CTO' before moving to coding tools, gradually easing into code to…
- Capture ideas quickly as Linear issues using reusable slash commands, so you can pick them up later with context already gathered.
- Separate the workflow into explore, plan, execute, review, and document phases, and have the AI ask clarifying questions before…
Lenny’s Podcast64 min
Marily Nika · Feb 5, 2023
Key learnings- Avoid the shiny object trap: only add AI when there is a real, well-defined pain point worth solving, and identify the problem…
- Don't use AI for an MVP; fake the AI behavior with a clickable prototype and test desirability with users first.
- Use ChatGPT as a sounding board for sharpening mission statements and generating user segments, personas, and motivations, while…
produxlabs.com · Melissa PerriJul 13, 2020
Jul 13, 2020 · 7 min
The author, who onboarded fully remotely at Produx Labs during the COVID-19 pandemic, argues that starting a job virtually is daunting but has real upsides. Remote hiring signals the company values the role, offers…
Lenny’s Podcast134 min
Nabeel S. Qureshi · May 11, 2025
Key learnings- Define who your company is not for: Palantir screened for independent-minded, intellectually broad, intensely competitive people…
- Avoid meaningless principles like 'move fast'; write principles people can meaningfully disagree with, and pressure-test project…
- Use forward deployed engineers who are real builders empowered to create new product for a customer, working in person with the…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresApr 19, 2023
Apr 19, 2023 · 16 min
Teresa Torres and members of the Continuous Discovery Habits community share the personal knowledge management (PKM) tools and habits they use to capture, organize, and reuse what they learn about products, customers…
SVPG · Marty CaganJan 23, 2012
Jan 23, 2012
Marty Cagan contrasts the traditional PC-era product manager with the modern Internet-era product manager. He argues that many organizations still operate with the older model, which was often ineffective and poorly…
SVPG · Marty CaganMar 17, 2011
Mar 17, 2011 · 6 min
Marty Cagan argues that product leaders must actively develop their product managers, since strong teams are essential and people leave managers rather than companies. He presents a gap-analysis tool for ongoing skills…
SVPG · Marty CaganMar 4, 2021
Mar 4, 2021 · 3 min
Marty Cagan argues there is a wide gap between how the best product companies work and how the majority of companies work, and that many people don't realize how different the two worlds are. He notes that practitioners…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresApr 24, 2014
Apr 24, 2014 · 5 min
Teresa Torres argues that curiosity is a core skill for product managers, especially when facing pressure to build one-off feature requests. Rather than arguing or pleading, PMs should investigate the underlying need…
Lenny’s Podcast95 min
Donna Lichaw · Feb 25, 2024
Key learnings- Treat the stories you tell yourself as hypotheses: check them against real feedback from colleagues instead of assuming they are…
- Start leadership growth from the inside out: lead yourself first, then one-on-ones, teams, and the wider business.
- Ask how a limiting habit or belief, like imposter syndrome, currently serves you before trying to suppress it.
Substack podcastDec 27, 2025
Dec 27, 2025
Key learnings- Writing can sharpen thinking by forcing you to make vague ideas explicit and expose gaps in your reasoning.
- The claim 'writing is thinking' is useful but overextended; not all thinking happens through writing, and writing alone does not…
- Treat writing as one tool among several for thinking, alongside conversation, sketching, and deliberate reflection.
Lenny’s Podcast85 min
Roger Martin · Jul 25, 2024
Key learnings- Strategy is an integrated set of choices that compels desired customer action, since customers are the one thing a company cannot…
- Work through the five cascade questions together: winning aspiration, where to play, how to win, required capabilities, and…
- Winning requires being either differentiated or lowest cost; without one of those, competitors can keep pushing you back step by…
SVPG · Marty CaganAug 30, 2019
Aug 30, 2019 · 7 min
Marty Cagan answers reader questions prompted by his earlier article distinguishing product teams from feature and delivery teams. He clarifies that designers and engineers contribute far beyond usability and…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresFeb 3, 2026
Feb 3, 2026
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille examine why hiring processes often fail product teams despite their rigor. They describe how AI-inflated application volumes, longer funnels, and many stakeholders create noise, and how…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresJan 6, 2016
Jan 6, 2016 · 11 min
Teresa Torres argues that product managers are essentially designers who solve ill-structured problems, which have no single right answer and several competing solutions. Drawing on educational psychologist David…
Lenny’s Newsletter♥ 226
Sep 20, 2022 · 12 min
Subscriber post — summary onlyLenny uses the Lord of the Rings, especially Frodo's journey, as a lens for how product managers can build influence without relying on formal authority. He walks through seven strategies, each illustrated with Airbnb…
Lenny’s Podcast89 min
Matt Mochary · Nov 10, 2022
Key learnings- When you sense fear clouding judgment, make a low-stakes bet with a peer on the opposite prediction; Mochary says fear has…
- Deliver layoff news one-on-one, never via email or group chat, since impersonal delivery is what turns layoffs into anger and…
- Separate the decision from its implementation: decide based on what serves the customer, then address the hurt of each affected…
SVPG · Marty CaganNov 13, 2005
Nov 13, 2005 · 6 min
Marty Cagan addresses a frequent complaint from product managers at large companies: their managers keep shifting direction, producing constant rework and frustration. He acknowledges that such churn is a structural…