Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth — Why cultivating agency matters more than cultivating skills in the AI era | Max Schoening (Head of Product, Notion)

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Why cultivating agency matters more than cultivating skills in the AI era | Max Schoening (Head of Product, Notion)

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

Max Schoening is head of product at Notion, where he’s been especially effective at getting designers and PMs to ship code, prototype in the terminal, and launch extremely successful AI products. He was previously a PM at Google, ran design at Heroku, was VP of Design (and a part-time engineer) at GitHub, and is a…

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