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Try itnpx skills add https://github.com/refoundai/lenny-skills --skill shipping-productsHelp the user ship products effectively using frameworks and insights from 47 product leaders.
When the user asks for help with shipping:
Nan Yu: "If you look at people at the pinnacle of their craft, you can tell how good the output is going to be by how fast they're going." High speed combined with quality indicates mastery, not sloppiness. Use speed to increase iterations and variations tested.
Dylan Field: "Get it out as fast as you possibly can. The faster you get it out, the more feedback you get." Prioritize shipping speed to accelerate the feedback loop, which is the most valuable asset in early product development.
Nicole Forsgren: "When you move faster, you are more stable. You're pushing smaller changes more often with a smaller blast radius." Push smaller changes more frequently to reduce complexity and make failures easier to debug.
Dmitry Zlokazov: "If something is 99% done, it's closer to 0% rather than 100%." A product provides zero customer value until fully finished and launched. Maintain relentless focus until shipping is complete.
Nick Turley: "Why can't we do this now? If this was the most important thing and you wanted to truly maximally accelerate it, what would you do?" Use this question to strip away non-essential blockers and identify the critical path.
Matt MacInnis: "We have a Product Quality List that articulates the standards we want you to meet when you ship." Create a PQL checklist of quality standards that must be met before release, and iterate on it when bugs slip through.
Nick Turley: "You won't know what to polish until after you ship." In emergent products like AI, ship early to discover which areas actually require polish based on real-world usage.
Patrick Campbell: "Your tempo framework is more important than your org design. If a team is always planning but doesn't ship, you don't have alignment on what good tempo looks like." Define shipping frequency expectations for every department.
Naomi Gleit: "Only with perfect execution can we reevaluate whether the strategy is right or wrong." Poor execution leaves the cause of failure ambiguous. Ship properly to learn whether your strategy was correct.
Keith Yandell: "If you continuously push up what you ship by a week, you'll end up lapping competitors because you start the next thing a week sooner." Small velocity improvements create massive competitive advantages through compound interest.
For all 55 insights from 47 guests, see references/guest-insights.md