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Org design & culture

Team topologies, operating models, culture, and scaling organizations

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Lenny’s Podcast121 min

The creator of WordPress opens up about becoming an internet villain, why he’s taking a stand, and the future of open source

Matt Mullenweg · Mar 2, 2025
Key learnings
  • Build a movement, not just a product: give community members a philosophy and shared identity, plus many ways to contribute…
  • A platform only becomes durable when its ecosystem of plugins and themes is a moat competitors can't easily replicate.
  • Open source licensing like the GPL guarantees users and builders keep their freedoms even if the steward changes course…
Lenny’s Podcast85 min

Inside the expert network training every frontier AI model

Garrett Lord · Aug 24, 2025
Key learnings
  • Post-training, not pre-training, now drives most model gains, so high-quality expert data targeting specific capability gaps is…
  • The labeling market has shifted from cheap generalist labor to domain experts, so the right supply is credentialed specialists…
  • Access to a trusted audience is the real moat in human data; owning an audience removes customer acquisition costs compared with…
Lenny’s Newsletter♥ 51

How to get promoted

Feb 1, 2022 · 9 min
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Lenny Rachitsky lays out seven practical strategies for earning a promotion, drawing on his own roughly nine promotions over a 16-year career. The core argument is that consistent, impactful work is the foundation, and…

Product Talk · Teresa TorresApr 15, 2026

How to Share Your AI Context and Skills Across Devices

Apr 15, 2026 · 7 min

“I've been hosting Claude Code office hours for the past few months and by far the most common questions I get are around sharing context and skills. I'm hearing from a lot of people who are leading AI adoption in their companies. They've developed robust workflows that”