Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now | Molly Graham
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- So we've been chatting about your famous giveaway, your Legos career advice, this idea of how this advice applies in today's very strange AI world. - The narrative right now is literally like, okay, we hired this new employee. This new employee is the smartest employee that you have ever met. I want you to pour every single thing that you know into this employee, and then they're gonna take your job in six months. Like, who the (beep) wants to do that? - Here's the big question, Molly. Are there any Legos you should not give away? - In AI land, I think we gotta caveat this. There are some Legos that shouldn't be given away. There's just some work that shouldn't be outsourced. - Just a radical departure from your advice over the many years. - You individually are phenomenal at a set of things. - Don't outsource it to these weird robots that, you know, are effectively summer interns. - AI is taking a lot of our Legos and we like it or not, and we're being encouraged to give away our Legos to AI. - You had someone on who talked about like, the job used to be rowing and now it's steering. - And I was like, I feel like there's a lot of people out in the world right now that are like, I don't wanna (beep) steer. - I've heard from a lot of engineers just like, I'm really missed what it used to be. - Change sucks. It also can be awesome, but we don't have to be fluffy bunnies about this. We can also just say this is hard. - This is almost a discussion around what should AI do? Where do you want AI to be involved and where you not want it involved? - What would you do if you believed your job was always going to exist? It was just gonna look completely different every six years. - Today, my guest is Molly Graham. This is Molly's second visit to the podcast and man, this is a powerful conversation. The frame for this conversation is her classic give away your Legos career advice, but in an AI world. Molly's advice for the last 13 years has been that your career will be better off if you give away your projects and your teams
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