795 memorable quotes from Lenny's Podcast guests
“I just care more about the quality of the follower than I do the volume.”
“You start with a weak imitation. You identify what makes your imitation weak, and then you iterate the imitation until it's finally original.”
“Most creators are resisting their bad ideas. If you sat down, scribbled a few thoughts in a blank document and just walked away because you weren't struck with gold, then you never actually finished the creative process.”
“If you change your state first, then there's a cascading effect which changes your thoughts and your feelings.”
“Make generous assumptions.”
“I think there's a relationship between avoiding conflict and having a healthy relationship to anger.”
“I always take notes. These are basic things people don't actually think about it sometimes.”
“It's a long process and I don't think people have that mental model around how to learn in general.”
“It's really, really hard to get into product and there isn't a really set path to do that.”
“If you have a team that has heartfelt intensity and is there for a purpose and something to prove, you get it.”
“Try your best to not think of it as a browser. And have a beginner's mind about how it works and how you might use the internet.”
“Authenticity, probably more than anything else. Do they really believe what they're saying?”
“There is always a balance trade off between how do you make the model to be more helpful for users, but also not being harmful in other scenarios.”
“I would love to be a writer, I think. I think that would be super cool.”
“Model training is more an art than a science.”
“Product is science. It's really an art, like a game that's being played out.”
“They operate better when they are fed. The kid as a product is like if you feed the product, then everything's better.”
“When making decisions in conditions of uncertainty, you only need to reduce the uncertainty to an acceptable amount to be able to make the next decision.”
“You get really attached to a solution, a way of implementing something that you can see in your head that you want to build.”
“Your job is to understand here are the opportunities, and then you're kind of pulling together all the different possibilities and you're really editing.”
