Opening
Marily Nika (00:00:00): There is something called the shiny object trap, and I'm always telling people, "Hey, don't do AI for the sake of doing AI." Make sure there is a problem there. Make sure there is a pain point that needs to be solved in a smart way. Once you have identified what that problem is and what that very, very high-level solution is, then reach out and try to figure out how to actually implement it....
The opener starts with biography before advice. That order makes the guest legible as a person before the listener extracts tactics.
Low-ego framing
Lenny (00:00:28): Welcome to Lenny's podcast where I interview world-class product leaders and growth experts to learn from their hard one...
Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.
Accept praise cleanly
Marily Nika (00:03:08): Thank you. Hello, thank you for having me. Lenny (00:03:10): It's very much my pleasure. We've interacted a little bit on...
Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.
Ask with curiosity
Marily Nika (00:09:35): I think it's that you will need to get comfortable with having a partner that's a...
Turns a moment that could become critique into a question about the guest's thinking.
Low-ego framing
to classify, if the photo is a category dog, obviously even if you have, I don't know like 15, 20 labeled photos, what's going to work. But if you want to create voice recognizers or complicated NLP...
Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.
Accept praise cleanly
* (00:47:01): Yeah. [inaudible 00:47:02] Lenny (00:47:02): Amazing. Marily, thank you so much for spending time with me, sharing your wisdom. Two final questions, where can folks find you online if they...
Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.