Lenny
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Lenny

@lennyrants

Formerly Airbnb, now writing about product. If it's interesting, I'll share it.

馃搮 Joined November 2018
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read a fantastic essay this morning on why most product frameworks fail. tl;dr: they replace thinking with vocabulary. sharing in this week's issue.

the best product managers i've ever worked with have one thing in common: they can hold two conflicting truths at once without needing to resolve them yet.

the top 5 product mistakes i see week after week:

1. building for yourself 2. mistaking noise for signal 3. copying what worked at a bigger company 4. shipping features to satisfy the loudest customer 5. mistaking meetings for progress

no hot takes here. just the classics.

in this week's issue: 6 lessons from talking to 30 chief product officers about how they actually make roadmap decisions. spoiler: it is much less spreadsheet than you think.