"Building Product at Linear" with Nan Yu, Head of Product at Linear (1/2)

Jacob:  I think that the Linear Method has caused a lot of people to call Linear, opinionated. What are some of the strong opinions that Linear has built into the product itself that maybe people say, “wow, it might not be flexible, but this is exactly how it should work.”

Nan:  I think this is gonna cause some

Simplify it down to its most fundamental components and that's the right way.

The Linear method is a way of expressing that, right? If you're working on a project, it's called a project. That's what it is. And that's it, right? There's no other weird word that we came up with for this.

Nan:  Yeah. I don't want you spending your entire day in Linear, right? Like that would be like a kind of failure mode for us if somebody just spent their entire life managing issues here and there.

So I think the utopian vision is that a lot of people who use Linear don't even know they're doing it. There's a big piece of what we're trying to