Stay Sassy PM: Leaders know what to do 99% of the time
Stay Sassy PM · ⚡️ The best engineers don't write the most code. They delete the most code. — Stay Sassy · Apr 13, 2026 · at 35:09
Stay Sassy PM, an anonymous tech product manager and essayist, discusses decision-making and leadership on Latent Space with Swix.
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“From what I've seen, 99% of the time, you know exactly what to do. The number of truly, truly difficult questions that require you to know some sort of advanced theory, or advanced philosophy, or run some huge amount of calculations that are very non straightforward to do, that is the extreme minority of different questions that actually face you as a leader. In most cases, you know what to do, and It's much more about having the willpower to go through with it.”
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