💥🧑‍🎓 Announcing: Lenny’s Newsletter Fellowship Program

I’m launching a three-month fellowship program, and applications are now open.

What it is: Work alongside me to learn how I do what I do, share your unique knowledge with the world (through guest posts), and jump-start (or…

🧵Another year around the orbit of @useorb. Here’s my annual thread on a few things I’ve learned — and am continuing to learn 👇🏽

1/ Greatness and comfort rarely coexist. Surround yourself with people who lean into the challenge. (Illustration from the little red book)

One of my favorite lessons from the post

anyone know how to turn off closed captions for racing events? it’s a bit distracting

Claude 3 offers sophisticated vision capabilities on par with other leading models. The models can process a wide range of visual formats, including photos, charts, graphs and technical diagrams.

It's 11:59 PM the night before a big price change.

Let’s set the scene:
📝 You’re probably managing each version of pricing manually in a never-ending spreadsheet
⚙️ If you're lucky, your engineering team wrote a script for you
🙅 If not, you're about to make the changes…

Do not underestimate the power of staring at the data

✨Big new launch: the Product Almanac

All of my public writing over the past 4 years. In one place.

Available for free. Just request access to this Coda powered doc:

productalmanac.com

Even more content to added there soon, but this should keep you busy for a while🗒️

In every role I've had – from product manager to Head of Growth to founder to VC – it's been a struggle to consistently and easily tie execution directly to strategy.

Today we're launching Panobi out of beta to help folks at every level to do that well. #strategyeatstactics

Everyone knows that a critical part of developing a new product is talking to potential customers. Despite dutifully having these customer conversations, product builders still often end up launching products that ultimately fail.

Rob Fitzpatrick 📚 believes this is because we often ask…

I’m excited to read it Gergely Orosz !

One of the better articles I've read over the years on the culture that is Google, warts and all. (This substantially matches my understanding from *many* conversations that do not have a publicly readable URL associated with them.)

shreyans.org/google

Ha, nice! I've been building this as a solo dev the last couple of months, leveraging OpenAI Functions.

The idea was to offer a 'fuzzy command palette' where you could just type what you want to change the state of your chart.

Give it a spin. Would love any feedback!

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OK, just got GPT-4 with vision, and it is both awesome and limited in the way Bing has been (no surprise, they are the same system), but it may be a bit more capable.

It does amazingly at many things, but also can mess up tiny details which leads to hallucinations.

Some tests:

How @Linear builds product:

1. No product managers, just a head of product. PM duties are distributed across engineering and design.

2. No durable cross-functional teams. Teams assemble around a project and disperse once the project is done.

3. No metrics-based goals. Just a…

Karbon Layers of flavor!

2. Stop thinking of product-market fit as a single moment.

It can be, but it almost always isn't.

Instead, think of finding PMF as an ongoing process of finding stronger fit with more and more segments of the market.

Here's how Shishir describes it:

some people who make programming easier

(who am I missing?)

I'm excited to announce the open enrollment for the Fall Cohort of my Mastering Product Management course, offered through Reforge! 📣

Unlike other PM classes that teach general skills, Mastering Product Management focuses on teaching PMs how to master the 8 deliverables that…