Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
01:24:01 · Boris Cherny, Lenny Rachitsky
[01:24:01] S0: This is, like, reverse breaking through. [01:24:05] S1: Wow. That is so cool. Wow. Okay. I wonder what those last two are. Anyway, okay. Two more questions. Do you have a favorite life motto that you often come back to in work or in life? [01:24:14] S0: Use common sense. I think a lot of the failures that I see, especially, in a work environment is people just failing to use common sense. Like, they follow a process without thinking about it. They just do a thing without thinking about it, or they're working on a product that's not a good product or not a good idea, and they're just following the momentum, and not thinking about it. I think the best results that I see are people thinking from first principles, and just developing their own common sense. If something smells weird then it's probably not a good idea. So, I think this is the single advice that I give to coworkers more than anything too. [01:24:46] S1: And I feel like that alone could be its own podcast conversation. What is common sense? How do you build? But we'll keep this short. Final question. So, you've got more active on Twitter/X. I'm curious just why and just what's your experience been with Twitter? The world of Twitter. Because you get a lot of engagement on Twitter/X. [01:25:06] S0: So, for a long time I used Threads exclusively, because I actually helped build Threads a little bit back in the day. And I also just like the design. It's a very clean product. [01:25:14] S1: Yeah.
01:25:14 · Lenny Rachitsky, Boris Cherny
[01:25:14] S1: Yeah. [01:25:15] S0: I just really like that. I started using Threads, because actually I was bored. So, in December, I was in Europe- [01:25:21] S1: Started using Twitter you mean.
01:25:21 · Lenny Rachitsky, Boris Cherny
[01:25:21] S1: Started using Twitter you mean. [01:25:23] S0: Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I started using Twitter, because I was bored. So, my wife and I, we were traveling around in Europe for December. We were just nomad-ing around. We went to Copenhagen, we went to a few different countries. And, for me, it was just a coding vacation. So, every day I was coding, and that's my favorite kind of vacation, just code all day. It's the best. And, at some point, I just got bored, and I ran out of ideas for a few hours. I was like, "Okay. What do I want to do next?" And so, I opened Twitter, I saw some people tweeting about Claude Code, and then I just started responding. And then I was like, "Okay. Maybe actually a thing I should do is just look for bugs that people have. Maybe people have bugs," or feedback they have. And so, introduce myself, asked for it, people had a bunch of blogs and feedback. And I think they were surprised by the pace at which we were able to address feedback nowadays. For me, it's just so normal. Like, if someone has a bug, I can probably fix it within a few minutes, because I just started Claude, and as long as the description is good, it'll just go and do it, and then I'll go do something else, and answer the next thing. But I think for a lot of people it was pretty surprising. So, that was really cool. And, yeah. The experience on Twitter has been pretty great. It's been awesome just engaging with people, and seeing what people want, hearing about bugs, hearing about features.
01:26:38 · Lenny Rachitsky, Boris Cherny
[01:26:38] S1: I saw [inaudible 01:26:38] the other day on Twitter. You're, like, posting many threads, and it was breaking. And just, like, "Oh, man. What's going on here?" [01:26:45] S0: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There was a bug. I hope it's fixed now. [01:26:49] S1: Amazing. Oh, man. Boris, I could chat with you for hours. I'll let you go. Thank you so much for doing this. You're wonderful. Where can folks find you online? How can listeners be useful to you? [01:27:00] S0: Yeah. Find me on Threads or on Twitter. That's the easiest place. And, please, just tag me on stuff. Send bugs, send feature requests. What's missing? What can we do to make the products better? What do you want? I love, love hearing it. [01:27:16] S1: Amazing. Boris, thank you so much for being here. [01:27:18] S0: Cool. Thanks, Lenny. [01:27:20] 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 LennysPodcast.com. See you in the next episode.