“leverage action kit their latest product to instantly give your AI agents access to over 100 Integrations”
ActionKit
By Paragon
0 recommend/use · 2 sourced episodes
Every sourced reference
Short attributed excerpts only. Timestamps are approximate.
“leverage action kit their latest product to instantly give your AI agents access to over 100 Integrations”
Related frameworks
Cut Scope, Not Quality
When time is short, strip features down to the core instead of shipping the same feature badly
Deadlines as P-Zero
Have few deadlines, but make each one a P0 that nothing else can touch — and cut scope to hit it
Documentation vs Storytelling Safety Framework
Sort every AI-video use case into documenting reality (block) or storytelling (enable)
Emotional Discovery: Feel Bad Like the Customer
On customer calls, dig until you feel the exact emotion the customer wants to avoid, then build to remove it
Internal Virality for Alignment
Get a big org aligned by making a prototype go viral inside the company instead of grinding stakeholder meetings
Interview as Discovery: Be the Solution to Their Burning Problem
Treat a job interview like product discovery — find the hiring manager's burning problem and position yourself as its solution
Strategic Technical Debt as Leverage
Startups should take on technical debt on purpose — it's how you outrun bigger companies
Systematized Creativity by Extremes
Build the most extreme version along one attribute, feel it, repeat in the opposite direction, then find where they meet
The 10% Working-Version Rule
Have a testable working version by the time 10% of your time budget elapses, not at the halfway point
The Double Triangle: PM as Go-To-Market Discipline
Sit the PM between two triangles — build (eng/product/design) and sell (sales/marketing/PM) — and originate the customer's language
The Middle-Manager Reporting Veto
Automatically say no to customization features that ease manager reporting at the cost of IC workflow
The Public and Secret Roadmap
Split your roadmap into what users ask for and what only you can see — the wins come from the second
The Weekly Marketable Feature
Every engineer ships one feature per week that a user would pay or show up just for
People in these episodes
Related resources
- Airbnb
- Amazon
- Apple
- Apple Podcasts
- Brex
- Captions
- ChatGPT
- Coda
- Coinbase
- Crossing the Chasm
- Cursor
- Devin
- Gong
- Google Ads
- Google Analytics
- Google Drive
- Granola
- Iron Man
- Jira
- Lenny's Newsletter
- Lenny's Podcast
- Lenny's Podcast website
- Linear
- Microsoft
- Mode
- Netflix
- Notion
- Nvidia
- Paragon
- Perplexity Pro
- Rich Communication Services
- Sakura Pigma Micron
- Semrush
- Severance
- Silo
- Silo series
- Sinch
- Slack
- Snap Inc.
- Snapchat
- Spotify
- Stripe
- Superhuman
- The Design of Everyday Things
- The Diplomat
- The Linear Method
- The West Wing
- TikTok
- Wix Studio
- X
- YouTube
- Zapier
Spot an error or want this page removed? Request a correction or removal.