About

Lenny Distilled started as a weekend experiment and became a love letter to minimalism.

Lenny Rachitsky has built an extraordinary repository of product wisdom over the years—300+ conversations with practitioners who've shipped products used by billions. But navigating that depth is hard. This project attempts to surface the gold: the insights, the frameworks, and most interestingly, the moments where experts disagree.

The interface is deliberately bare. No onboarding flows, no feature tours, no hamburger menus hiding complexity. If the UI needs explaining, it's failed. The content is the product—everything else should disappear.

Building this reminded me of my early career days, when information visualization was having a moment. I remember sleepless nights turning raw datasets into visual stories for online challenges, that particular satisfaction of making complexity navigable. This project brought that feeling back—except what once took days now takes hours. Working with Claude Code was genuinely delightful.

For the first time in twenty years, I've stepped away from the daily grind to spend real time with my kids and family. From March, I'll be looking for what's next.

On the future of product teams

I'm increasingly convinced that LLMs will be the great equalizer for product managers. The leverage these tools provide lets strong PMs focus on what actually matters: thinking deeply, making hard tradeoffs, understanding customers.

I also believe teams are about to get much smaller. One stellar PM, one or two exceptional engineers, shared design support—this combination can now deliver what required entire squads before. Few companies have adapted to this reality yet, but they will.

I'm looking for a place that's ready for this: a role where I can bring product acumen, taste, and leadership to bear—but as an empowered IC, building rather than managing.

If that sounds interesting, find me on LinkedIn.

— Harsh