How To Win Friends & Influence Decisions (Julie Zhuo) | Lenny & Friends Summit 2024

For example, we thought we would need a bunch of product managers. It's turned out that actually if you don't have a product manager, I find that sometimes when you have a designer or a product manager, and let's say I'm an engineer, then when I have a problem, my default will be to delegate that to them.

You want to diagnose with data and treat with design. Data is not a tool that's going to tell you what you should build.

Figuring out how to boil it down so that an agent can really understand what success and failure looks like is a lot of the game.

Win-win, I think about that all the time in my mind. My job is to figure out how to create win-wins. If you start thinking that my getting better outcomes has to come at the expense of somebody else losing something, it's very difficult to come up with a strategy or to truly be successful.

Every strength is its own weakness, and every weakness is a strength. There's no such thing as you're going to somehow get every dimension to be 100%.