Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
01:14:20 · Lenny Rachitsky, Casey Winters
[01:14:20] S1: of Beyond. That's what I've been doing. That's what I've been doing. Great. [01:14:22] S0: Other things like The The Last of Us is great, and, you know, I really enjoyed the the video games. Severance is great. Station Eleven is great. I I loved the book too, but I I thought that was really good. Movies? There there haven't really been a lot of great movies lately, but I I did rewatch Kicking and Screaming from the nineties, and it really holds up well. It's, I don't know how many of you have heard of it, but it's about a group of college kids who graduate, but they just decide not to leave campus and start their lives, they just stick around campus. So I I really enjoyed that one. [01:14:58] S1: Amazing. We have a drinking game anytime men... Someone mentions Last of Us. So if you're driving bit to work listening to your podcast on your commute, take some coffee or whatever you got. Two more questions. What's something relatively minor you've changed in your product development process or maybe that you've recommended people change that has had a tremendous impact on people's ability to execute?
01:14:58 · Lenny Rachitsky, Casey Winters
[01:14:58] S1: Amazing. We have a drinking game anytime men... Someone mentions Last of Us. So if you're driving bit to work listening to your podcast on your commute, take some coffee or whatever you got. Two more questions. What's something relatively minor you've changed in your product development process or maybe that you've recommended people change that has had a tremendous impact on people's ability to execute? [01:15:20] S0: You know, I preach, like, cross functional teams and alignment pretty aggressively. So how do you get people from all the different functions aligned on on the same OKRs and working together? And I used to say, like, look. If someone in that cross functional team is pulling rank, it means, you know, something's fucked up on the team. But something we started doing more recently at both Eventbrite and Whatnot is just designating the person on the cross functional team who drives the project. At Eventbrite, we call it the driver. At Whatnot, we call it the DRI, directly responsible individual. But once that person makes the call, it's disagree and commit time. There's no escalation path. Like, if you're not the DRI and you're on the team and they made the call, alright. It's time to sign up and and and go forward on that decision. And if they made the wrong decision later, okay, we'll learn, you know, once once we should. [01:16:11] S1: Final question. Something I love that you do in your own newsletter and blog as you share what you're listening to. What are you listening to these days?
01:16:11 · Lenny Rachitsky, Casey Winters
[01:16:11] S1: Final question. Something I love that you do in your own newsletter and blog as you share what you're listening to. What are you listening to these days? [01:16:19] S0: Sure. Kelela recently came out with her second album, Raven, which is really great. I've been listening to that. Orbital came out with a new album called Optical Delusion. That's been pretty good. And then an oldie but goodie is De La Soul's music finally came out on Spotify, and The Stakes Is High is, like, one of my favorite hip hop albums ever. So I've been jamming to that. [01:16:45] S1: Amazing. Where can folks find you online if they wanna reach out, learn more? And how can listeners be useful to you? [01:16:50] S0: I blog not near as frequently as you at kcaccidental.com. You can find me, you know, on Twitter one case man. And, yeah, just pay it forward. Help help your companies build better products and better businesses. That's all I care about. [01:17:05] S1: Casey, thank you so much for being here. I feel like we're building some kind of network effect, you and I doing these podcasts. Hopefully, we'll be back for a third time someday. Thank you again. Really appreciate it. [01:17:14] S0: Yeah. Thanks for having me. Hopefully, they don't get sick maybe by then.
01:17:14 · Casey Winters, Lenny Rachitsky
[01:17:14] S0: Yeah. Thanks for having me. Hopefully, they don't get sick maybe by then. [01:17:17] S1: Bye, everyone. Thank you so much for listening. If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app. Also, please consider giving us a rating or leaving a review, as that really helps other listeners find the podcast. You can find all past episodes or learn more about the show at lenny'spodcast.com. See you in the next episode.