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Lenny’s Podcast98 min

Building a long and meaningful career

Nikhyl Singhal · Jun 11, 2023
Key learnings
  • Think about your career as a product: work backward from the end state you want, and plan several steps ahead rather than…
  • Pursue a diverse set of experiences across pre-product-market-fit, scaling, inside-the-building and outside-the-building…
  • Early in your career, pick a lane of expertise (domain, crafting, market, organizational, growth) and build a story of what you…
Lenny’s Podcast115 min

Why half of product managers are in trouble

Nikhyl Singhal · Apr 19, 2026
Key learnings
  • Expect the information-moving part of product work to be automated; judgment about what to build and whether changes are good…
  • Build with AI tools to solve your own daily problems; you don't need to be an engineer, you need to know what good looks like.
  • Aim to obsolete yourself: automate the parts of your job you dislike, as the best engineers do.
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…