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Designer and product leader at Notion when they spoke to Lenny's Podcast in 2026; previously at GitHub and Heroku.
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Project Hail MaryOther
I did like uh uh Project Hail Mary uh a lot. I liked the book and I think the adaptation was was was really good.
Lenny's Podcast, "AI era skills: Why cultivating agency matters more than job titles", lightning round, favourite recent movie or TV show; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions). The film adaptation of the Andy Weir novel.
2026-05-02·youtube.com ↗
The Handmaid's TaleOther
TV show I'm late to this the Handmaid's Tale. If you replace the concept of God with AI in that TV show and then you don't actually have to squint that far to replace ice with ice in that TV show right now. It becomes a very um uh I don't know a heavy show to watch in a good way.
Lenny's Podcast, "AI era skills: Why cultivating agency matters more than job titles", lightning round, favourite recent movie or TV show; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions).
2026-05-02·youtube.com ↗
MoshiSoftware
there is a new one for the phone called Moshi. M O S HI. That one's not free but it looks very well done. I'm like currently exploring it.
Lenny's Podcast, "AI era skills: Why cultivating agency matters more than job titles", lightning round, favourite recently discovered product; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions). A terminal app for the phone.
2026-05-02·youtube.com ↗
CodeBook Charles Petzold
so code uh by uh Charles Pzled which is uh the secret language of hardware and software. It basically it's like do you know how computers actually work? Uh it is actually surprising to me how many professionally employed programmers don't know how computers work. Um that one the funny thing is it does not have a line of code in it until like chapter 27. Uh so exceptionally good book.
Lenny's Podcast, "AI era skills: Why cultivating agency matters more than job titles", lightning round, asked for the books they recommend most; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions). Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software; captions spell the author "Charles Pzled".
2026-05-02·youtube.com ↗
Seeing Like a StateBook James C. Scott
the last one that I give mostly to executives uh that I think are creating a lot of systems uh is uh seeing like a state
Lenny's Podcast, "AI era skills: Why cultivating agency matters more than job titles", lightning round, asked for the books they recommend most; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions). The guest says they give it mostly to executives who create a lot of systems.
2026-05-02·youtube.com ↗
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