Lenny’s Podcast97 min
Matt Abrahams · Mar 31, 2024
Key learnings- Visualize the whole experience, from walking to the stage to stepping off, including the audience responding well, to desensitize…
- Prepare in order to be spontaneous; practice is what makes improvisation and on-the-spot speaking go well, as it does in…
- Strive for connection over perfection by daring to be dull: just answer the question and stop judging every word, which frees up…
Lenny’s NewsletterSep 30, 2025
Sep 30, 2025 · 32 min
Subscriber post — summary onlyExecutive coach Jack Cohen introduces GAIN, a framework for giving feedback by framing it around the gain people can achieve rather than the pain to avoid. It walks through each element (Goal, Actions, Impacts, Next…
SVPG · Marty CaganSep 3, 2024
Sep 3, 2024 · 4 min
The article introduces a two-way feedback model that the author credits with changing how she coaches people. It argues that one-way "radical candor" style criticism can demotivate, so feedback should give both parties…
SVPG · Marty CaganFeb 8, 2019
Feb 8, 2019 · 10 min
Marty Cagan argues that the weekly one-on-one is the foundation of coaching product managers, and that most managers either never run it well or treat it as optional. The 1:1 exists primarily to build a PM's competence…
SVPG · Marty CaganDec 27, 2017
Dec 27, 2017 · 5 min
Marty Cagan argues that product managers should learn the underlying principles behind their practices, since techniques change constantly while principles endure and let people judge new methods. He recommends Ray…
Lenny’s Podcast98 min
Kenneth Berger · May 19, 2024
Key learnings- Treat your complaints as clues: every complaint implies a dream, so reverse it into the better future you actually want.
- Articulate your wants out loud, checking whether the dream is both inspiring and credible rather than embarrassing or unrealistic.
- Hold a high bar for yes: anything short of an enthusiastic 'hell yes' should be treated as a no and explored further.
Lenny’s Podcast101 min
Maya Prohovnik · Sep 28, 2023
Key learnings- Dogfood your product by creating content with it yourself, since building creator tools without living the creator experience…
- Ensure the team experiences the product's pain directly, for example by having engineers and PMs make their own podcasts, to…
- Balance data and gut instinct by treating your intuition as a legitimate data point, explaining its reasoning with evidence…
Lenny’s Podcast117 min
Alexander Embiricos · Jan 12, 2026
Key learnings- Ship a product to a small group first, then learn empirically from usage rather than over-planning, especially in fast-moving AI…
- Onboard users into agentic tools by first working alongside them in the local IDE or terminal, then gradually configure…
- Give AI coding tools your hardest real tasks rather than trivial ones, and build trust by having the agent first understand the…