Nikhyl Singhal on lennyfeed

The shadows of superpowers: everyone focuses on your strengths, but no one thinks about what shadows they create. The thing that made you great is often exactly what's holding you back at the next level.

Mar 28Mar 28, 2026source

Bangaly KabaMar 28

The reframe I'd add: the shadow isn't the superpower itself, it's the *unexamined* superpower. The PMs I've seen stall out aren't victims of their strengths — they just never built the self-awareness to know when to put them down.