Ship or Slip: The Product Manager's survival guide to win in the age of AI
I spotted Lenny Rachitsky through an email newsletter that shared his article having thousands of views and appreciations from product management practitioners. I knew he would provide great service to fellow professionals and to newcomers interested in pursuing a product management career.
I continued following his work, especially his podcasts, and drew on the wisdom shared by his guests at Appetals Solutions to help clients build a better product.
The podcast resources became more helpful when the ground was shifting beneath our feet. The old playbooks for product management—the rigid roadmaps, the long specification documents, the linear cycles—were failing to keep pace with market speed. We needed a new way to build, but the "best practices" found in textbooks felt decades old.
I found the answer in Lenny's Podcast when guests started sharing their experiments, outcomes, and ways forward, inspiring others.
Lenny Rachitsky has created something unprecedented in our industry: a repository of real-time, high-fidelity wisdom from the world's best practitioners. He interviews the people actually doing the work at the bleeding edge—from OpenAI to Figma to Airbnb.
But Lenny did something even more remarkable than just hosting conversations recently. In an act of profound generosity and commitment to the community, he made his data available. He allowed the sharing and downloading of his podcast transcripts. Like others, he didn't lock this knowledge behind a gate; he open-sourced the source code of modern product management.
His resource is the result of mining open-source data. It is a distillation of hundreds of hours of conversation, structured specifically to help teams like ours at Appetals Solutions navigate the new reality. His kind gesture will certainly help product managers stop guessing and applying the proven systems of the world's best founders, product leaders and practitioners.
I hope you like my notes organised in a manner that helps you gain insights and take actionable steps.
And it starts with the most disruptive force we face today: Artificial Intelligence.