What is this newsletter about?
Looking at Lenny Rachitsky's LinkedIn profile shows a really awesome career journey, one that I think many people hope they could experience as well.
He started in engineering, moved on to founding his own company which was late acquired by Airbnb and then transitioned into pure product management. After close to a decade he left and ventured out to start his newsletter, which has basically become the lodestone of the product management community.
His self-described aim is to provide "Deeply researched advice about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career."
Why its worth your time
We started Summereeze because we have deep conviction that to really be great at your vocation, you have to push yourself to the bleeding edge of what it is that you do. But trying to learn everything from your own trial and error is not taking advantage of what makes our species so exceptional, our ability to build on the works and learnings of others. By definition to leverage the learnings of others out there on the edge with you means newsletters are pretty much your only source. This kind of information doesnt exist in books or classes because if it does it means its already 'canon' and not right up to the latest of where your vocation is exploring. Getting insights from those out there with you remains largely in the realm of newsletters or videos.
If you're a product manager, then Lenny is this for you. He has spent the last 5 years speaking to those at the bleeding edge of product and helps to draw out their insights and knowledge of whats literally pushing the state of the art of product management.
The content is always long form, so each entry can be a time investment, but thats what it takes to get the goods.
A good starting point
With 5 years of content, its of course a challenge on where to dig in first. I think a starting point that will really bring you value and get you into Lennys world is the interview with Mihika Kapoor, Product Manager at Figma and the founding PM of their new tool Figma slides, which is a product that makes incredible sense and is such a pleasure to use. We're huge fans. She tells and incredible story and has experience in one of the hardest places for PM's and also one of the areas where PM's actually get the least opportunity to play; launching a new product from 0-1.
Full details on Lenny
The newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/
The podcast: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/podcast
Lenny runs a recruitment business as well, if you're looking to hire or looking for a role definitely take advantage: https://www.lennysjobs.com/
Some swag cause why not: https://lennyswag.com/en-gbp/
A GPT trained on all of Lennys content: https://www.lennybot.com/
