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Lenny’s Podcast118 min

Inside Linear: Building with taste, craft, and focus

Karri Saarinen · Oct 8, 2023
Key learnings
  • Ship features early to a small set of users or internal teammates and polish only at general release, rather than perfecting…
  • Co-create early features with one or a few large customers to clarify how complex workflows should actually work.
  • Give project teams ownership of their features; craft often emerges when engineers and designers discover better interaction…
Lenny’s Newsletter♥ 335

How Linear builds product

Sep 26, 2023 · 15 min
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Lenny Rachitsky profiles how Linear, the project-management tool, builds its product, based on an interview with CEO Karri Saarinen. The post's core argument is that a small, craft-focused setup works well: no dedicated…

Lenny’s Podcast26 min

Interview Q Compilation

Interview Q Compilation · Nov 29, 2023
Key learnings
  • Ask 'To what do you attribute your success?' and watch for self-awareness and curiosity rather than an answer like 'luck' (Eeke…
  • Ask 'What's the hardest thing you've ever done?' to learn how a candidate defines difficulty, how they overcame it, and how much…
  • Use the teleportation-device 'Eigenquestion' exercise: candidates may ask only two questions, then must plan, revealing how they…