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Lenny's Podcast · March 7, 2024 · 45m
How to develop product sense | Lenny Rachitsky (solo)
Lenny's solo episode on developing product sense: the intuition for what users need before they can articulate it. Product sense isn't innate — it's built through thousands of repetitions of observing users, studying products, and making predictions.
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Canon
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Lenny: the best way to develop product sense is to study great products the way you would study biographies — deeply, historically, understanding why each decision was made. Product tear-downs are biographies of products.
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Lenny: you can't force product sense to develop on a timeline. You can control the inputs — studying products, observing users, making predictions. Whether intuition emerges is outside your control. Trust the process.
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