Lenny’s Podcast109 min
Benedict Evans · May 31, 2026
Key learnings- Treat AI as roughly as big as the internet or mobile, and recognize we are early, like 1997, with most applications not yet built…
- Expect adoption to be very uneven; survey data shows many people are not using AI at all, so don't assume the people in your…
- Ask whether a job is a task that can be automated or a deeper outcome; consultants and professionals are hired for judgment…
The Beautiful Mess · John Cutler♥ 62
May 31, 2026
John Cutler reflects on the pull many product people feel to help and improve things, and on how that impulse can turn into exhaustion if left unchecked. He frames the desire to help as a real gift that helps people…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresMay 28, 2026
May 28, 2026 · 3 min
This episode of Just Now Possible features Lorikeet, a startup building AI customer support concierge agents for regulated industries. The team describes how months of work on the wrong ideas, such as reflection tools…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresMay 26, 2026
May 26, 2026 · 3 min
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille question whether the technology industry they have built their careers in is net positive for the world. They reflect candidly on contributing to the internet, social media, and now AI, and…
Lenny’s Newsletter♥ 680
May 26, 2026 · 8 min
Subscriber post — summary onlyLenny Rachitsky recommends a curated set of books for product builders, organized by the skill or job a reader wants to improve, such as communication, strategy, management, and sales. He limits himself to three books…
Lenny’s Podcast118 min
Dan Shipper · May 24, 2026
Key learnings- Keep using the newest models and agent tools for your real work, and experiment on your own time if your employer restricts…
- Expect most company AI to start as one shared agent that everyone can talk to, likely in Slack, rather than many personal agents…
- Design products so agents can be users too: make them easy to drive via CLI and browser-friendly, because the customer's own AI…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresMay 20, 2026
May 20, 2026 · 4 min
Teresa Torres describes a personal 'team of agents' built on Claude that works for her while she is away from the computer: a podcast manager, a sales admin, and a coding manager. Each agent prepares tasks, reports, or…
Substack · Shreyas Doshi♥ 83
May 19, 2026
Shreyas Doshi argues that blunt feedback can be transformative, but its value depends heavily on the giver's intent and judgment. Feedback delivered bluntly without care or accuracy can cause harm rather than growth…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresMay 19, 2026
May 19, 2026
Teresa Torres, a product discovery educator, describes how she drifted from occasional tinkering into spending a large share of her time on real AI engineering. She built AI-powered tools for continuous discovery…
Lenny’s Podcast129 min
Caitlin Kalinowski · May 17, 2026
Key learnings- Hardware can only be 'compiled' a handful of times, so teams must be more conservative, run reliability checks early, and solve…
- Define clear, written goals (cost, weight, resolution) before starting and resist changing them, since hardware is far less…
- Design the riskiest or hardest-to-physically-build parts first rather than starting with the components you already know how to…
Substack · Shreyas Doshi♥ 275
May 16, 2026
Shreyas Doshi describes a founder asking whether to go wide or deep, and argues that abstract framings like this feel productive but avoid the decision. The core advice is to push past comfortable generalities toward…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresMay 14, 2026
May 14, 2026 · 3 min
This episode of Just Now Possible features Rhea's Factory's co-founders discussing enzymatic plastic recycling, a biological approach that breaks plastic polymers back into their original monomers rather than merely…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresMay 13, 2026
May 13, 2026 · 14 min
Teresa Torres describes building AI-generated opportunity solution trees for Vistaly as a product manager stepping into engineering with AI assistance. The core difficulty was updating an existing tree with new…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresMay 12, 2026
May 12, 2026
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille push back on the hype around the 'product builder' trend, arguing that whether product managers should code or vibe code is the wrong starting question. They suggest first asking whether…
Lenny’s Podcast136 min
Eric Ries, Lean Startup author · May 10, 2026
Key learnings- Protect your company's mission structurally from day one; waiting for success or later fundraises makes these protections…
- Check your own corporate charter and governance documents, since most founders never read them and may have signed away mission…
- Consider filing as a public benefit corporation with a specific purpose statement; it's a simple filing that defends against…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresMay 5, 2026
May 5, 2026
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille examine the sudden popularity of "taste" as a prized human skill in the AI era. Teresa argues the term is rarely defined, hard to teach, and can disguise personal preference as expertise…
Lenny’s Newsletter♥ 370
May 5, 2026 · 8 min
Subscriber post — summary onlyLenny Rachitsky's guest author, a Google AI product leader, argues that the SaaS freemium playbook breaks down for AI products because each free request carries real compute cost. He proposes a modern AI paywall built…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresMay 4, 2026
May 4, 2026 · 6 min
This reading guide introduces Chapter 6 of Continuous Discovery Habits, the monthly book club installment marking the book's fifth anniversary. It argues that product teams should stop reacting to every customer need…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresApr 30, 2026
Apr 30, 2026
This episode of Just Now Possible features AITropos founders Santi Marchiori (CEO) and Juan Haedo (CTO) discussing how they built an AI order-taking agent that handles the full ordering flow inside WhatsApp for…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresApr 28, 2026
Apr 28, 2026 · 3 min
This podcast episode examines why companies drift back to command-and-control leadership during uncertain times, because it feels faster and more decisive. Teresa Torres and Petra Wille argue that no single leader can…
Lenny’s Newsletter♥ 409
Apr 28, 2026 · 5 min
Subscriber post — summary onlyLenny Rachitsky, with Hilary Gridley, introduces Couch-to-5K for AI, a free program of under 10 minutes a day that builds AI skills progressively using Claude Code. The post argues that busyness is usually a disguise…
SVPG · Marty CaganApr 27, 2026
Apr 27, 2026 · 10 min
Marty Cagan answers common follow-up questions to his earlier argument that builders should distinguish between building to learn (product discovery) and building to earn (product delivery). He argues that as delivery…
Lenny’s Podcast95 min
Evan Spiegel · Apr 26, 2026
Key learnings- Distribution is often underweighted compared with product-market fit; founders should plan how they will reach users, not just…
- Software features are easy to copy, so durable advantages come from ecosystems, creator/developer platforms, and…
- Connecting people to their closest relationships, rather than maximizing total friends, can be the more valuable network effect…
Lenny’s Podcast108 min
Cat Wu · Apr 23, 2026
Key learnings- Shorten the path from idea to user: AI-era timelines have shrunk from six months to days or a week, so PMs should focus on…
- Ship features as clearly labeled research previews to lower the commitment of launching and get fast user feedback that can be…
- Set a clear, specific goal for who the key user is and what success means, which rules out many approaches and speeds decisions.
The Looking Glass · Julie Zhuo♥ 132
Apr 21, 2026
Julie Zhuo's short essay, titled "I am an idiot," reflects on intellectual humility in an era when AI systems can seem to know more than we do. The piece is framed as personal notes rather than a formal argument, using…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresApr 21, 2026
Apr 21, 2026
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille argue that confident predictions about AI-driven change are often wrong, and that betting everything on one forecast is risky. Humans are poor at forecasting, and early adopters' experience…
Lenny’s Podcast115 min
Nikhyl Singhal · Apr 19, 2026
Key learnings- Expect the information-moving part of product work to be automated; judgment about what to build and whether changes are good…
- Build with AI tools to solve your own daily problems; you don't need to be an engineer, you need to know what good looks like.
- Aim to obsolete yourself: automate the parts of your job you dislike, as the best engineers do.
SVPG · Marty CaganApr 16, 2026
Apr 16, 2026 · 6 min
Marty Cagan argues that product work has two distinct modes: the project model, focused on output from predefined roadmaps, and the product model, focused on outcomes. As delivery costs have collapsed with AI, the…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresApr 16, 2026
Apr 16, 2026 · 3 min
This episode of Just Now Possible, hosted by Teresa Torres, is an in-depth look at how Doist built Ramble, a voice-to-task feature in Todoist that turns spoken brain dumps into structured tasks in real time. Ramble was…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresApr 15, 2026
Apr 15, 2026 · 7 min
Teresa Torres describes the problem of sharing AI context files and Claude Code skills across multiple personal devices and with a colleague. She walks through why Dropbox, iCloud and git each fell short, mainly because…