Lenny’s Newsletter · Free post♥ 46
Mar 23, 2021 · 13 min
“This week’s newsletter is brought to you by… The Browser is one of my most favorite newsletters. Why? Because every issue brings me joy. How rare is that. I even broke my rule of avoiding sponsorships because I love The Browser so much. Inside each issue, you’ll find a hand-picked selection of the most interesting, best-written, and most get-your-brain-juices-flowing articles on the Internet. Even if you just read the capsule summaries…”
Lenny’s Podcast71 min
Casey Winters · Jul 21, 2022
Key learnings- Escalate problems to leadership early so they can help change circumstances, rather than silently absorbing them; leaders can't…
- Structure upward communication to start at the last point the audience already agrees with, not at the chapter-six detail or with…
- Prepare for important meetings by role-playing each attendee and listing every possible question, ensuring you have the data to…
Lenny’s Newsletter · Free post♥ 8
Oct 22, 2019 · 10 min
This weekly newsletter answers three reader questions on product work. A guest contributor, Hiten Shah, argues that remote teams suffer from miscommunication and that clarity, written documentation, screenshare-based…
Lenny’s Podcast125 min
Ebi Atawodi · Dec 3, 2023
Key learnings- A vision should describe a picture of the future state, be lofty yet attainable, be free of today's technical limits, and be…
- Distinguish vision from mission: the vision is what the destination looks like, while the mission is the purpose and guiding…
- Write the vision as a 'once upon a time' story (current problem, a turning point, and the resulting changed world), or write the…
Lenny’s Newsletter♥ 171
Sep 10, 2024 · 21 min
Subscriber post — summary onlyTara Seshan, a former Stripe and Watershed product leader, shares a playbook for presenting product tradeoffs so leadership actually makes a decision rather than defaulting to "do both." The post covers framing…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresJan 8, 2013
Jan 8, 2013 · 4 min
Teresa Torres describes rolling out Kindling, a simple idea management app, across her company to make product input more transparent and data-driven. She wanted an easy tool that everyone would use to share and vote on…
SVPG · Marty CaganJun 14, 2021
Jun 14, 2021 · 28 min
Marty Cagan, author of four bestselling product books, shares his process for writing non-fiction books, framing the book as a product whose readers are customers. He argues that the decisive factor is whether the…
Lenny’s Podcast109 min
Ami Vora · Jun 23, 2024
Key learnings- Sublimate your ego: prioritize reaching the right outcome over being right, since others often hold information you lack.
- Respond to disagreement with curiosity by asking the other person to explain their reasoning, and pause before reacting to avoid…
- Keep product reviews short, bring a clear recommendation, and use them to calibrate on reusable principles rather than to approve…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresNov 8, 2012
Nov 8, 2012
Teresa Torres argues that when a whole company is invited to generate product ideas, every idea deserves thoughtful feedback, since that feedback is what keeps people contributing. She walks through common idea types…
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…
Lenny’s Newsletter · Free post♥ 86
Sep 27, 2022 · 14 min
Emily Kramer, who led marketing at Asana, Carta and other companies, argues that much marketing work wastes time because teams lack alignment before work begins. She introduces GACCS (Goals, Audience, Creative…
produxlabs.com · Melissa PerriJul 16, 2020
Jul 16, 2020 · 6 min
Melissa Perri interviews Brian Bhuta, CPO at Signify Health, about how product leaders gain trust and influence, especially when joining a team full of resistance. Bhuta argues that influence is an advanced form of…
SVPG · Marty CaganNov 13, 2005
Nov 13, 2005 · 6 min
Marty Cagan addresses a frequent complaint from product managers at large companies: their managers keep shifting direction, producing constant rework and frustration. He acknowledges that such churn is a structural…
Lenny’s Newsletter♥ 171
Sep 8, 2020 · 13 min
Subscriber post — summary onlyLenny walks through how his Airbnb team turned a problem of rejected booking requests into an 'Instant Book' strategy that grew instant bookings from about 5% to over 80%. He breaks strategy into three steps…
Substack · Shreyas Doshi♥ 72
Jan 19, 2026
The source text opens by describing a common complaint among product managers: that PMs lack enough influence over product decisions at modern tier 1 software companies. The excerpt is cut off immediately after this…
Lenny’s Newsletter · Free post♥ 75
Oct 29, 2019 · 10 min
This weekly Q&A from Lenny Rachitsky covers three reader questions: how to communicate a failed MVP to leadership, how a product manager can persuade a founder to change a core idea under board pressure, and what to…
The Beautiful Mess · John Cutler♥ 158
Jul 6, 2026
John Cutler introduces an intended-but-unwritten book about thriving at work when you think too much, framing his years of TBM posts as already containing the material. He describes a recent breakthrough that clarified…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresFeb 18, 2014
Feb 18, 2014 · 8 min
Teresa Torres describes how she rolled out the idea management tool Kindling at AfterCollege so that everyone in the company could contribute to idea generation and evaluation. The approach worked because it had clear…
Lenny’s Podcast115 min
Alisa Cohn · Jan 5, 2025
Key learnings- Before a hard conversation, identify what you're making it mean (e.g., fear of upsetting someone) and check your intent: the aim…
- Frame performance feedback around observable facts and expectations, citing what you've heard from multiple people, and keep your…
- Build the relationship with positive, specific feedback regularly so people hear criticism as coming from someone who wants to…
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Sep 28, 2021 · 13 min
Subscriber post — summary onlyLenny Rachitsky offers a three-step process for a product person to say no to a manager while keeping their trust: listen and ask questions, form an independent point of view, then respond constructively using one of…
SVPG · Marty CaganSep 12, 2022
Sep 12, 2022 · 6 min
Marty Cagan argues that as companies shift from sales-driven feature teams to empowered product teams, the way product teams engage customers changes, and customers need to understand why. He frames a set of pledges…
Lenny’s Newsletter♥ 101
Apr 25, 2023 · 9 min
Subscriber post — summary onlyLenny Rachitsky reflects on serving as juror on a weeklong criminal trial and maps courtroom dynamics onto product management. The post argues that trials offer a useful lens on soft skills like choosing the right…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresJun 12, 2019
Jun 12, 2019 · 8 min
Teresa Torres and Hope Gurion share practical ways to use opportunity solution trees beyond the original tool. Hope adapts the tree with color-coding so stakeholders can quickly see which opportunities and solutions are…
Lenny’s Podcast113 min
Maggie Crowley · Nov 5, 2023
Key learnings- Great PMs simplify relentlessly: find the one thing to do and stick with it long enough to actually finish it.
- Read your documents out loud and cut anything complicated; if you can say it in conversation, write it that way.
- Follow up on results after launches by setting calendar reminders to check metrics weeks and months later, and share what you…