The Looking Glass podcastApr 14, 2026
Apr 14, 2026
Key learnings- World-class designers are distinguished by judgment and taste, not just the ability to execute polished visuals.
- Excellent designers obsess over the underlying problem before jumping to solutions, which separates them from those who iterate…
- Strong designers can articulate why a decision is right, tying craft choices back to user needs and business constraints.
Product Talk · Teresa TorresApr 14, 2026
Apr 14, 2026
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille argue that AI, which makes generating ideas and building products faster, does not remove the need for product managers because the core of product work is relationship work. Aligning…
Lenny’s Newsletter♥ 458
Apr 14, 2026 · 15 min
Subscriber post — summary onlyThe post argues that 'AI agent' covers very different systems, so teams should first categorize each idea by architecture before prioritizing. It proposes three categories (deterministic automation, reasoning and acting…
Lenny’s Podcast105 min
Keith Rabois · Apr 12, 2026
Key learnings- Build the team first: Rabois argues the team you assemble determines the company you build, so hiring quality outranks market…
- Check hires 30 days after they join by asking whether you would make the same decision again; he says this short loop predicts…
- Run ruthless referencing with many references per senior hire, and frame questions around whether the person can be a world-class…
SVPG · Marty CaganApr 9, 2026
Apr 9, 2026 · 4 min
Marty Cagan argues that internal products, while worth treating as real products, carry a lower bar on value, usability, feasibility and viability than commercial products. Internal users cannot switch to competitors…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresApr 8, 2026
Apr 8, 2026 · 17 min
Teresa Torres traces how product roadmaps have evolved from feature-and-date lists to theme and outcome-based formats, arguing each fixes some problems while creating others. Feature roadmaps imply false certainty that…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresApr 7, 2026
Apr 7, 2026
In this All Things Product podcast episode, Teresa Torres and Petra Wille discuss how product people can handle FOMO around the rapid stream of AI tools. They argue that starting from real problems and friction is more…
Lenny’s Newsletter · Free post♥ 509
Apr 7, 2026 · 9 min
This guest post by Michelle Rial, shared by Lenny Rachitsky, offers a humorous visual pep talk for anyone stuck in a creative slump. Structured as twelve short charts, it argues that fear of embarrassment, chasing…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresApr 6, 2026
Apr 6, 2026 · 8 min
This book club reading guide introduces Chapter 5 of Continuous Discovery Habits, focused on continuous customer interviewing. Teresa Torres argues that product trios should interview customers on a weekly cadence…
Medium · Hiten ShahApr 5, 2026
Apr 5, 2026 · 4 min
Hiten Shah argues that leaders usually try to engineer culture directly, which rarely works. Instead, culture emerges from the environment (systems, cadences, unwritten rules), and the environment itself is shaped by…
Lenny’s Podcast148 min
Amol Avasare · Apr 5, 2026
Key learnings- Expect most growth time to go to 'success disasters' once growth is rapid; firefighting breaking systems matters as much as new…
- In AI-first products, skew the growth portfolio toward larger swings, since future product value could be orders of magnitude…
- Treat activation as a top lever in AI products: identify user traits that predict which feature fits them, then guide them there.
Product Talk · Teresa TorresApr 2, 2026
Apr 2, 2026
This episode of Just Now Possible features the founders of Banani, a canvas-first AI product designer aimed at giving solo founders and small teams access to tasteful UX. The conversation covers how the company grew…
Lenny’s Podcast142 min
Simon Willison · Apr 2, 2026
Key learnings- Coding agents crossed a reliability threshold around November 2025, so they now usually do what you ask, which changed how…
- Writing code is now cheap, so the bottlenecks move to ideation, prototyping, testing, and process; build several quick prototypes…
- Use test-driven development with agents: have them write tests, run them, and watch them fail first (Red/Green TDD) to keep…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresApr 1, 2026
Apr 1, 2026 · 20 min
Teresa Torres walks through her experience vibe coding production software over six months, from early failures to a reliable workflow. She explains what vibe coding is, compares popular apps and agents, and identifies…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresMar 31, 2026
Mar 31, 2026
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille argue that product management is not dead but is changing, as the traditional product trio of PM, design, and engineering blends into a new 'product builder' model. AI raises the baseline…
Lenny’s Newsletter♥ 888
Mar 31, 2026 · 15 min
Subscriber post — summary onlyClaire Vo presents a step-by-step guide to installing, configuring, and using OpenClaw, an open-source personal AI agent that runs locally and takes instructions through everyday chat apps. The post covers hardware and…
Lenny’s Podcast134 min
Claire Vo · Mar 29, 2026
Key learnings- Run several purpose-built agents instead of one general agent; splitting tasks keeps each agent's context focused and reduces…
- Install OpenClaw on a separate clean machine such as an old laptop or Mac Mini, with its own local admin account, rather than…
- Onboard the agent like a new employee: give it its own email and calendar, share access selectively, and expand trust…
Substack · Shreyas Doshi♥ 118
Mar 25, 2026
Shreyas Doshi argues that most people are poor listeners and that effective interpersonal communication can be built from a small set of foundational axioms rather than memorized tactics. The core idea is that once you…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresMar 24, 2026
Mar 24, 2026
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille discuss AI 'clones' built from podcast transcripts and public content that produce advice attributed to real people, often mediocre or things the person would never say. They explore where…
Lenny’s Newsletter♥ 440
Mar 24, 2026 · 7 min
Subscriber post — summary onlyLenny Rachitsky's biannual State of the Product Job Market update, based on TrueUp data, argues that early 2026 tech hiring is more optimistic than headlines suggest. It covers rising PM and engineering openings, the…
Lenny’s Podcast116 min
Jessica Fain · Mar 22, 2026
Key learnings- Treat stakeholder conversations as discovery interviews: go in to learn and strengthen your plan, not simply to get approval for…
- Remember executives have chaotic calendars and little context on your topic, so spend under 60 seconds at the start restating why…
- Ground your pitch in the executive's success metrics and board pressures, and show explicitly how your proposal moves those…
HEY World · Jason FriedMar 20, 2026
Mar 20, 2026
Jason Fried argues against the idea that AI will spark a bespoke software revolution where everyone builds their own custom tools. He notes that custom software already exists and is usually bloated because clients pay…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresMar 19, 2026
Mar 19, 2026 · 3 min
Teresa Torres interviews four members of Medable, a clinical trial platform company, about building Agent Studio, a no-code/low-code platform for configuring and deploying AI agents across the clinical trial lifecycle…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresMar 18, 2026
Mar 18, 2026 · 10 min
Teresa Torres argues that 'outcomes over outputs' is easy to state but hard to practice, because many teams still ship features while being asked to deliver impact. She defines outputs as what a team builds and outcomes…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresMar 17, 2026
Mar 17, 2026 · 3 min
This podcast episode, hosted by Teresa Torres with guest Petra Wille, addresses how product people can stay grounded and still act helpfully when the world feels overwhelming. The conversation argues that coping need…
Lenny’s Newsletter♥ 328
Mar 17, 2026 · 23 min
Subscriber post — summary onlyDesigner Ben Shih describes building LennyRPG, a Pokémon-style pixel game where players meet and quiz Lenny's Podcast guests using transcripts from 300+ episodes. The post walks through his AI-assisted workflow…
The Looking Glass podcastMar 11, 2026
Mar 11, 2026
Key learnings- Excellent growth teams look for opportunities that others in the organization tend to overlook, rather than only chasing the…
- Growth work at a marketplace like DoorDash requires balancing consumers, merchants, and dashers, so teams should consider the…
- Seven lessons framing suggests growth is treated as a repeatable discipline with distinct principles rather than a series of…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresMar 11, 2026
Mar 11, 2026 · 5 min
Teresa Torres introduces a new series, Conversations with Claude, showing how she uses Claude Code for real work. Her first example is a content audit of Product Talk, which she delegated to Claude with a task file and…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresMar 10, 2026
Mar 10, 2026 · 3 min
In this podcast episode, Teresa Torres and Petra Wille examine the hard decision of when and how to sunset products that are profitable and liked but no longer growing. They argue that this mediocre middle ground is…
Lenny’s Newsletter♥ 420
Mar 10, 2026 · 15 min
Subscriber post — summary onlyLenny's paid guest post by April Dunford, a positioning expert who has worked with 300+ B2B companies, covers four advanced roadblocks that derail positioning work. It argues that disagreement over competitors, product…