Lenny’s Podcast126 min
Thinking like a gardener not a builder, organizing teams like slime mold, the adjacent possible, and other unconventional product advice
Alex Komoroske · Oct 3, 2024
Key learnings
- Favor gardening over pure building: look for things that can grow on their own with ecosystem or network-effect dynamics, invest…
- Treat LLMs as squishy, imperfect 'magical duct tape' and design products that tolerate occasional failures rather than assuming…
- Build taste by finding a distinctive perspective that resonates with people, since cheap content generation makes differentiation…