Why cultivating agency matters more than cultivating skills in the AI era | Max Schoening (Notion)
In this episode, Lenny Rachitsky and Max Schoening discuss the profound impact of AI on product development, emphasizing that 'agency' is more crucial than traditional skills in this new era. Schoening shares his insights from Notion on how roles are merging and how teams can build successful products by focusing on a 'tiny core' and cultivating taste through iterative feedback.
- AI effectively makes the initial stages of any product or feature development free, with Notion's Max Schoening stating, "The first 10% of every project are now free." This drastically lowers the barrier for entrepreneurs. Read →
- Max Schoening, from his work at Notion, defines “taste” not as subjective preference, but as a hard-won predictive ability: you can run a “virtual machine” in your head and forecast how a specific 'in-group' will react to a product idea. Read →