The Skip Podcast
Nikhyl Singhal
2 episodes
Inside PM at Anthropic: Who Makes It, and Who Doesn’t
- Dianne Penn, who leads product for research and labs at Anthropic, says execution and details matter far more than strategy, putting them at about 99 percent of what makes a strategy succeed.
- Penn says Anthropic's research organisation plans in the medium to long term, setting key assumptions three to six months out and planning one month at a time, after an early annual OKR process failed because adoption assumptions were far too low.
29 Oct · 59 min
The Quest for Success: A Career Story in the Age of A.I. With Markie Wagner
- Markie Wagner, who runs Delphi Labs, says large language models are among the most important technologies since the iPhone, and predicts AI will take over large parts of executive, individual contributor and manager work within fifteen years.
- Wagner and Trey Stevens developed the good quest idea in a Pirate Wires essay, defining it as work that makes the future better than it looks today and warning that harsh framings can erode people's sense that their work matters.
3 Apr 2023 · 52 min