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Jessica Fain

Product leader at Webflow when they spoke to Lenny's Podcast in 2026; earlier chief of staff to Slack's chief product officer.

3 books on the record · 22 Mar 2026 – 22 Mar 2026

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

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A History of Burning by Janika Oza

history of burning is a is a book that tells a story of um Indian indentured servants that were brought to Uganda to build the um British railroad there.

on a podcast · 22 Mar 2026 · Report

loved it

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

there's a book called Homegoing, which is about the west coast of Africa and the impact of the slave trade um, and the ongoing uh, life in Africa from two uh, split parts of the family.

on a podcast · 22 Mar 2026 · Report

loved it

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Pachinko does this with a family in Korea over generations and moving to Japan.

on a podcast · 22 Mar 2026 · Report

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.