795 memorable quotes from Lenny's Podcast guests
“Whoever is accountable for the results should also be the decider.”
“How can I show my team, people I work with, my support and trust in them to take that challenge on?”
“You can inflict change on people, but if you want to do it with them trust is the key element there.”
“Functionality is important. And actually beauty enhances functionality because it does make things easier to use, more approachable, more compelling to use.”
“Asking for what we want, pursuing what's important to us in life is just one of the most important things of fulfillment.”
“If we're asking for it regularly, if we're listening to the response, we're expecting the no's we get from the world, then we can get the sense of, 'Yeah, I'm honoring what's important to me.'”
“Complaints are great inspiration. Every complaint implies a dream.”
“The AI models that you're using today is the worst AI model you will ever use for the rest of your life.”
“Sometimes it's not any one thing, it's just good work consistently over a long period of time.”
“You can do effectively poor man's fine-tuning by including examples in your prompt of the kinds of things that you might want and a good answer.”
“I think Scott oversaw a lot of this stuff and it's pretty incredible to see that transformation have been so successful at Adobe.”
“It was really bizarre and unique and surreal seeing that glimmer in someone else who was like, 'Yeah, I also just bought this thing, so I can actually do whatever the Hell I want.'”
“When you've got nothing to do, sweep never sit around.”
“I think it's easy for people to feel pessimistic about the world, but I think this product is a good reason to be optimistic about the future.”
“Society often feels really polarized, you hear people talk about it all the time, no one can ever agree on anything, but actually Community Note shows you people really can agree on quite a lot.”
“Imagine if we could use the same kind of approaches we use with notes, but to find agreement on legislation, or policies, or things like that that people want the government or the world to do.”
“The PM job can become a little too internal, influencing my stakeholders and getting alignment and all these things. But if you can't sell or support your own product, I don't trust you to build the product.”
“When something happens, good or bad, frankly, don't dwell on it. That's the past. Focus on what you want to do and then just move towards that.”
“If all you do is the minimum of what defined the 100% of what your job requires, you'll never grow.”
“Advice is not as powerful as you might think it is. It's a little bit like cotton candy. Doesn't have a lot of nutrition.”
