🧠 PM Wisdom Engine

Search 300+ Lenny's Podcast episodes for product management wisdom

An intelligent knowledge base that extracts insights, frameworks, and advice from Lenny's Podcast transcripts. Features a Decision Simulator that matches your situation to relevant guest advice, and a Career Stage Filter to surface content for your experience level.

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✨ Features

🎯 Decision Simulator

Describe your situation in plain English and get relevant advice from guests who faced similar challenges.

"Our growth has slowed to 5% MoM. Should we expand to new markets or double down on our core?"

→ Returns relevant quotes from Elena Verna, Casey Winters, and others who've tackled growth challenges.

🌱 Career Stage Filter

Filter all content by your experience level:

• 🌱 Early PM (0-2 years) - Fundamentals, first PM job advice
• 🌿 Mid PM (2-5 years) - Growth, stakeholder management
• 🌳 Senior PM (5+ years) - Strategy, organizational influence
• 👔 PM Leader - Team building, hiring, culture
• 🚀 Founder - PMF, fundraising, startup tactics

🧠 Framework Extraction

Automatically extracts 14+ named frameworks including:

• 11-Star Experience (Brian Chesky)
• LNO Framework (Shreyas Doshi)
• DHM Framework (Gibson Biddle)
• Jobs To Be Done (Clayton Christensen)
• Continuous Discovery (Teresa Torres)
• And more...

⚡ Expert Contradictions

See where successful PMs disagree:

• Move Fast vs Get It Right
• Data-Driven vs Intuition
• Hire Specialists vs Generalists
• Delegation vs Staying in Details

Each debate includes a "💡 The Real Answer" explaining when each approach works.

🔍 Full-Text Search

Search across 5,000+ transcript segments with timestamp links to exact YouTube moments.

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🚀 Quick Start

Prerequisites

• Node.js (v16 or higher)
• Git

Installation

# Clone this repo
git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/pm-wisdom-engine.git
cd pm-wisdom-engine

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Run the full pipeline (takes 2-5 minutes)
npm run all

# Open the app
# Windows:
start dist\pm-wisdom-engine.html
# Mac:
open dist/pm-wisdom-engine.html

What npm run all does:

1. Clones 300+ transcripts from ChatPRD/lennys-podcast-transcripts
2. Parses episodes and extracts metadata
3. Chunks transcripts into searchable segments
4. Extracts frameworks with context
5. Finds contradictions between guests
6. Builds the single-file HTML app

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📁 Project Structure

pm-wisdom-engine/
├── scripts/
│   ├── ingest.js              # Clone & parse transcripts
│   ├── extract-frameworks.js  # Extract named frameworks
│   ├── find-contradictions.js # Find opposing viewpoints
│   └── build-app.js           # Bundle into single HTML
├── src/
│   └── app.html               # Application template
├── data/                      # Generated JSON files
│   ├── episodes.json
│   ├── segments.json
│   ├── frameworks.json
│   ├── contradictions.json
│   └── insights.json
├── dist/
│   └── pm-wisdom-engine.html  # Final app (open this!)
└── package.json

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🛠️ Available Scripts

Command	Description
npm run all	Run complete pipeline
npm run ingest	Clone and parse transcripts
npm run extract	Extract frameworks
npm run contradictions	Find expert disagreements
npm run build	Build the HTML app

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🎮 Using the Decision Simulator

1. Go to 🎯 Decision Simulator in the sidebar
2. Describe your situation:

   I'm a PM at a Series B startup. We have traction but growth is slowing.
   Should we expand to new markets or double down on our core product?
   

3. Select your career stage and company stage
4. Click "🔮 Find Relevant Wisdom"
5. Get matched advice with relevance scores and YouTube links

Example Prompts to Try:

• "How should I approach pricing for my SaaS product?"
• "How do I know if we have product-market fit?"
• "Should I hire specialists or generalists for my team?"
• "My CEO keeps overriding my roadmap. How do I push back?"

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📊 Data Sources

• Transcripts: ChatPRD/lennys-podcast-transcripts (300+ episodes)
• Podcast: Lenny's Podcast

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🙏 Credits

• Lenny Rachitsky - For creating an incredible resource for product managers
• ChatPRD - For transcribing and open-sourcing the transcripts
• All the amazing guests - Whose wisdom makes this project valuable

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📜 License

MIT License - feel free to use, modify, and distribute.

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🤝 Contributing

Contributions welcome! Ideas for improvement:

• Add more podcast sources
• Improve framework extraction accuracy
• Add guest network visualization
• Create MCP server for Claude/Cursor integration
• Add spaced repetition for learning

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If you find this useful, please star the repo! It helps others discover it.

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