LeoLin990405 Lenny Skills: Advanced PM
12 actionable advanced product management skills.
Skills
1. Developing Product Taste
- Study great products deeply
- Understand why things work
- Build intuition through practice
2. Systems Thinking
- See the whole system
- Identify feedback loops
- Anticipate second-order effects
3. Product Operations
- Build scalable processes
- Create self-serve tools
- Measure operational efficiency
4. Marketplace Liquidity Management
- Balance supply and demand
- Optimize matching algorithms
- Manage geographic expansion
5. Vibe Coding
- Use AI to accelerate development
- Focus on outcomes, not code
- Iterate rapidly with prototypes
6. Energy Management
- Protect your peak hours
- Batch similar tasks
- Build sustainable habits
7. Coaching Product Managers
- Ask questions, don't give answers
- Focus on growth areas
- Provide regular feedback
8. Behavioral Product Design
- Understand user psychology
- Design for habits
- Use nudges ethically
9. Organizational Design
- Structure for your strategy
- Balance autonomy and alignment
- Evolve as you scale
10. User Onboarding
- Reduce time to value
- Guide users to "aha" moments
- Measure activation rates
11. AI Evaluation (Evals)
- Define success metrics
- Build evaluation datasets
- Automate testing
12. Dogfooding
- Use your own product daily
- Feel the pain points
- Build empathy for users