Product Sense
topic on 3 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes
the Knowledge Project 
Lenny's Podcast 
the MAD Podcast
5 statements about Product Sense, every show
Chip Huyen: AI engineering requires developers to have stronger product sense
“It requires engineers to have a much, much better product sense.”
Kevin Yien: Product sense is making good decisions with insufficient data
“We all talk about product sense. It's this, like, super mystical thing that no one knows how to get better at. To me, it's just a fancy way of saying you can make good decisions with insufficient data, and the core of that is decisions, and so PMs need as many…”
Doshi: Product sense decomposes into cognitive empathy, domain knowledge, and creativity
“Product sense has three components. The first is cognitive empathy. Which is, do I understand how you think as a user, how customers think, how they approach situations, what will resonate for them or not, right? That is cognitive empathy. Second is domain kno…”
Wodtke: Product intuition is overvalued and requires years of experience
“Ain't none of them old enough to have product sense. I mean, seriously, like a product sentence is intuition. Intuition is compressed experience. Compressed experience comes from having lots of experience, and if you're young and you don't have a lot of experi…”
Cutler: Product sense is teachable skills, not an innate binary trait
“So if you think about product sense, what is it might be like the ability to model problems, systems, thinking decision-making under conditions of uncertainty facilitation tools that you have, like the ability to look at a, you know, competitive ecosystem and …”