Lenny’s Podcast95 min
Shreyas Doshi · Oct 31, 2024
Key learnings- Run a pre-mortem before launches by imagining the project has already failed, then surfacing tigers, paper tigers and elephants…
- Classify tasks as leverage, neutral or overhead; spend extra effort only on leverage tasks, and do less polish on neutral and…
- Beat procrastination on high-leverage work by doing a couple days of low-stakes placebo tasks first, then working from a…
Lenny’s Podcast49 min
Shreyas Doshi Live · Oct 31, 2024
Key learnings- A real, pre-aligned product strategy can collapse weeks of annual planning into a few days, since most planning rituals are…
- Many decisions treated as reversible 'two-way doors' become one-way doors in practice once commitments, QBR narratives, and…
- Judging ideas on their merits rather than on social proof, authority, catchy metaphors, or alliteration is a core skill of good…
Substack · Shreyas Doshi♥ 324
Dec 30, 2025
Shreyas Doshi argues that clear thinking underpins everything product people do, yet most of us have significant gaps in how we reason. In this year-end essay he offers ten ideas for 2026, framed explicitly as useful to…
Substack · Shreyas Doshi♥ 118
Mar 25, 2026
Shreyas Doshi argues that most people are poor listeners and that effective interpersonal communication can be built from a small set of foundational axioms rather than memorized tactics. The core idea is that once you…
Substack podcastDec 27, 2025
Dec 27, 2025
Key learnings- Writing can sharpen thinking by forcing you to make vague ideas explicit and expose gaps in your reasoning.
- The claim 'writing is thinking' is useful but overextended; not all thinking happens through writing, and writing alone does not…
- Treat writing as one tool among several for thinking, alongside conversation, sketching, and deliberate reflection.
Substack · Shreyas Doshi♥ 83
May 19, 2026
Shreyas Doshi argues that blunt feedback can be transformative, but its value depends heavily on the giver's intent and judgment. Feedback delivered bluntly without care or accuracy can cause harm rather than growth…
Substack · Shreyas Doshi♥ 315
May 31, 2026
Shreyas Doshi argues that many ambitious mid-career people in tech feel dissatisfied not because of a single failure but because their career growth has stalled relative to their own expectations. Drawing on years of…
Substack · Shreyas Doshi♥ 364
Mar 4, 2026
The essay argues that as AI makes execution cheaper and faster, the scarce skill for product managers becomes product sense: the judgment to decide what is worth building and why. Mechanical PM tasks like writing specs…
Substack · Shreyas Doshi♥ 275
May 16, 2026
Shreyas Doshi describes a founder asking whether to go wide or deep, and argues that abstract framings like this feel productive but avoid the decision. The core advice is to push past comfortable generalities toward…
@shreyas · Shreyas Doshi on X♥ 241
ON TOUGH TIMES AT WORK People are different, and different people need different things to get them through tough times at work — times when work is stressful, or you’re dealing with annoying politics, or just when the motivation tank is running low. For some, it’s energizing
SVPG · Marty CaganMay 21, 2024
May 21, 2024
Marty Cagan argues that some of the best product people are not product managers at all, and that many strong product thinkers he knows are engineers. He defines a strong product person as someone obsessed with solving…
SVPG · Marty CaganAug 27, 2025
Aug 27, 2025 · 4 min
Marty Cagan responds to a Product Therapy interview with Shreyas Doshi, which described three product leader archetypes: craftsperson, operator, and visionary. Cagan argues that deep product craft is non-negotiable…
@shreyas · Shreyas Doshi on X♥ 204
This happens to smart people because of: 1. Deep-rooted identity of “I am good at product” (vs. “I am good at winning” or something like that) 2. Moral aversion against marketing & distribution 3. A habit of seeking virtue points by proclaiming “I just want to serve my users”
Substack · Shreyas Doshi♥ 86
Jun 19, 2026
Shreyas Doshi argues that founders and senior leaders in high-leverage roles benefit from clearly identifying what they are really selling, meaning the core value or outcome their product or leadership delivers beneath…
Substack · Shreyas Doshi♥ 13
Oct 1, 2026
Shreyas Doshi announces a new resource: a playlist of 23 candid video answers to career questions and dilemmas submitted by readers. The announcement frames the content as blunt and practical, aimed at ambitious…
Substack · Shreyas Doshi♥ 138
Jul 26, 2026
The source text provided is only the title, subtitle, author, date, and type, with no body content to analyze. The title suggests an essay on the Antithesis Principle, framed as something smart people overlook and wise…
@shreyas · Shreyas Doshi on X♥ 141
This is also true in tech careers. A lot of people I speak with are successful by every conventional metric, but they find it difficult to decide what to do next, in their career and their life.
Substack podcastJan 3, 2026
Jan 3, 2026
Key learnings- Treat time management as an ongoing experiment rather than a fixed system, testing methods and keeping what actually works for…
- Advanced time management ideas go beyond to-do lists to focus on how you allocate attention across competing priorities.
- Protect blocks of deep, uninterrupted work time, since product work is often fragmented by meetings and reactive requests.
@shreyas · Shreyas Doshi on X♥ 55
From coaching 100s of people over the years on career decisions, LinkedIn Envy and the Impact Lie are the root cause of many career regrets of otherwise-smart people. How to avoid such regrets? As with many such situations, the knowledge is the cure:
Substack · Shreyas Doshi♥ 58
Jan 8, 2026
Shreyas Doshi argues that many behaviors large companies encourage, such as answering support tickets, talking to many customers, and responding instantly to email and Slack, are designed to keep average performers…
Substack · Shreyas Doshi♥ 43
Jan 28, 2026
Shreyas Doshi argues that when two highly competitive, ego-driven product managers must negotiate with each other, the outcome tends to be poor for everyone involved. The piece frames this as a recurring pattern in some…
Substack · Shreyas Doshi♥ 50
Jan 2, 2026
Shreyas Doshi argues that a common implicit assumption, that everything should be meant for everyone, is mistaken, and that treating narrow fit as a defect leads people to create and consume poorly. The essay's framing…
Substack · Shreyas Doshi♥ 49
Jan 15, 2026
Shreyas Doshi describes a counterintuitive lesson he picked up from observing a manager at Stripe: the most persuasive way to win people over is often to stop selling and instead be genuinely candid about tradeoffs…
Substack · Shreyas Doshi♥ 42
Jul 2, 2026
The piece opens by naming a core cognitive bias that product builders tend to share, framed as four beliefs that reinforce one another. Only the opening line of the source text was supplied, so the full argument, the…
Substack · Shreyas Doshi♥ 35
Dec 26, 2025
Shreyas Doshi argues that peer-reviewed studies on human psychology and behavior are often over-trusted by smart people. Such research typically reports averages and correlations across populations, which says little…