Constraints
topic on 5 shows · 7 statements across 7 episodes
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Lenny's Podcast 
My First Million 
Big Technology 
20VC
7 statements about Constraints, every show
Shaan Puri: Real creativity comes from putting yourself in a tight box
“I think the real lesson out of this one was basically creativity loves constraints. The power of setting a time box constraint. If we had said this will be our next big business, we would have, again, spent six months planning. It was when we said, come hell o…”
Constraints that product managers fight against actually define their work
“What I'm actually saying Is that the things you think you're fighting against are usually the things that are giving your work shape. If you let them be.”
Yien: PMs should add as many constraints as reasonable to foster creativity
“At the end of the day, you should be adding as many constraints as reasonable in order to let engineers and designers come up with the most creative solutions for whatever you're trying to do.”
Niparko: Shortening project timelines breeds creativity and speeds product discovery
“Constraints can really breed creativity, right? By shortening the runway, you can actually move faster and get to the right product faster.”
AWS's Wood: Constraints are the single largest force to improve LLMs
“Constraints are probably the single largest force that we have to improve the capabilities of these LLMs.”
Tobi Lütke: True creativity always comes from constraints, not blank canvases
“Like artists, real artists will always talk about the tyranny of a blank canvas, right? Like this is actually not what leads to creativity. Creativity always comes from constraints.”
Evans: Modern social media products are designed around constraints
“A lot of stuff that's happening in social now is about constraint. Like, it's only audio, or it's only these people, or you can only post pictures of other people, and your friends post pictures of you, or you can only do one picture a day, or you have to wait…”