Steven Leshinger
@stevlesh
Steven Leshinger
You don’t have to be good at everything, you just need to double down on what you’re naturally suited for.
James Clear • 3-2-1: On Loving Your Fate, How to Handle Pressure, and the Value of Being Proactive Yet Positive
Used to have a ton of difficulty sleeping well. What worked for me was blackout blinds, go to sleep around same time every night, don't work on stuff that will get my brain going after 730p and Beam Dream powder (I drink it at 830p every night).
The Truth about AI agents
Poet and novelist Charles Bukowski on forging your own reality:
"I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen but as the years wasted on nothing ever did unless I caused it."
"I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen but as the years wasted on nothing ever did unless I caused it."
3-2-1: How to deal with stress, forging your own reality, and learning vs. achieving
- Start with one action that matters
- Add LLM understanding
- Build tight feedback loops
- Learn from every interaction
- Expand slowly
The Truth about AI agents
The good new is there's still untapped opportunity to build social accounts for these b2b niches. B2B doesn't mean boring. Every niche has its watering holes:
Build the media (social, community) that should ... See more
- Excel pros have their meme accounts
- PMs follow productivity threads
- Data analysts have their tutorial channels
- RevOps people share automation hacks
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SaaS Startup Ideas
Pre-requisites to Growth teams are:
- Company has achieved a product-market fit (because you can’t scale something you haven’t validated the need for yet)
- Company has enough data to apply experimentation-first approach (otherwise just keep launching and doing pre-post analysis)
A message for Growth team naysayers.
"You are better equipped to deal with stress when you are moving.
When you feel tense or frustrated or worried, it is difficult to think your way into feeling better. The more you think about the situation, the larger it becomes in your mind. Trying to think your way out of it often leads to a spiral of overthinking and rumination.
The first step i... See more
When you feel tense or frustrated or worried, it is difficult to think your way into feeling better. The more you think about the situation, the larger it becomes in your mind. Trying to think your way out of it often leads to a spiral of overthinking and rumination.
The first step i... See more
3-2-1: How to deal with stress, forging your own reality, and learning vs. achieving
Instead of treating AI models as something that just follows instructions, we should treat them like interns on their first day. An intern is smart but lacks context on what to do and how to do it. The key to an intern's success is to give them the context they need to think like you.
That's how we approach prompting at Granola now. We provide the m... See more
That's how we approach prompting at Granola now. We provide the m... See more
How to Build a Truly Useful AI Product
The key is to enjoy hanging out on the edge. That is, you find it interesting to attempt things one step beyond where you are right now. It could be the edge of your ability or the edge of your knowledge or the edge of your network.
If you reach — but just a little — and you do it every week, then you’ll take on challenges that are manageable enough... See more
If you reach — but just a little — and you do it every week, then you’ll take on challenges that are manageable enough... See more