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Lenny’s Podcast115 min

Unorthodox PM wisdom: Automating user insights, unselling job candidates, logging every decision, more

Kevin Yien · Aug 18, 2024
Key learnings
  • Consider entering product management from engineering, design, or sales, since those roles teach you the front-line work a PM…
  • Treat product management as converting a team's potential energy into realized customer value, and only add PMs where that work…
  • Write clearly and compellingly enough that others can act on it; Kevin argues a PM who cannot sell or support their own product…
Lenny’s Newsletter♥ 140

How Coda builds product

Jan 31, 2023 · 21 min
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Lenny Rachitsky profiles how Coda's product organization plans, reviews, and builds product, drawing on an interview with CPO Lane Shackleton. The post covers Coda's evolving planning cadence, OKR philosophy, review…