What Christina Wodtke thinks about design
Author of Radical Focus, a guide to OKRs, and a Stanford University lecturer who teaches how to build high-performing teams.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Christina Wodtke has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsTaste is not innate. Taste comes from experience—from interacting with hundreds of products critically, from years of observing what works and what fails and developing the pattern recognition to know the difference. When a founder has “product sense,” what they have is design training they picked up somewhere, consciously or not. They learned to see.
↗AI’s Missing Ingredienteleganthack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsWhen everyone has access to the same AI tools generating the same average outputs, the companies that win will be the ones that can direct those tools toward something actually distinctive, something that connects with humans. Design matters more now, not less.
↗AI’s Missing Ingredienteleganthack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece