Hiten Shah revisits his 2015 observation of "infectious enthusiasm" in founders and argues its source is not charisma but a prior, settled decision to pursue the work regardless of outcome. He contends that investors…
Teresa Torres interviews Matthias and Charlotte Kleverud, co-founders of Momental, about building a "GitHub for product management" that ingests documents, transcripts and recordings to map goals, decisions and…
The essay argues that as AI makes execution cheaper and faster, the scarce skill for product managers becomes product sense: the judgment to decide what is worth building and why. Mechanical PM tasks like writing specs…
Teresa Torres argues that product teams are sliding back into feature-factory habits as AI tools make shipping faster, and that stakeholders often arrive with solutions rather than problems. Her core advice is to stop…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille use search-and-rescue research on how lost people behave as a metaphor for product teams that have lost their way. They describe five recurring moves: freezing, chasing shortcuts, following…
Molly Graham introduces the Waterline Model, a diagnostic for underperforming teams that checks four levels in order: structure, dynamics, interpersonal, and individual. Her core argument is that many team problems are…
This book club post kicks off a monthly reading guide for Teresa Torres's Continuous Discovery Habits on its fifth anniversary. It focuses on Chapter 4, which argues that individuals should draw their own experience…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille examine the blurred line between product and engineering, where product managers drift into owning bugs, tech debt and architecture. They argue this starts as helpfulness but leads to PM…
Lenny Rachitsky and researcher Noam Segal interviewed over 30 tech professionals about using AI in job hunts and found the strongest candidates built personal feedback loops with AI. The post packages those techniques…
This podcast episode features ShowMe's co-founders discussing how they build AI digital sales reps for inbound teams, treating agents as full teammates that run voice and video calls, demo products, and follow up over…
Teresa Torres announces an expanded partnership with Vistaly to bring AI-assisted discovery tools into its opportunity solution tree platform. The core problem she describes is that many teams conduct customer…
This podcast episode, hosted by Teresa Torres with guest Petra Wille, argues that product leaders are stretched thin by shrinking headcount, AI disruption, and constant context switching, and that they tend to…
Caitlin Sullivan, a user-research practitioner, explains four recurring ways AI-generated customer analysis goes wrong: invented or blended quotes, generic insights, signal that doesn't guide decisions, and missed…
Teresa Torres explains that she began building AI products with no team to lean on, and that hands-on work with Claude Code is how she and other product people are building the skills needed for AI product work. She…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille discuss moving from Claude in the browser to Claude Code running on a local machine, where it can work directly with files and workflows. They cover practical setup such as project…
Marily Nika, a former AI PM at Google and Meta, presents a weekly ritual for building AI product sense: probing a model with messy, ambiguous, and difficult inputs to map failure modes before users do. She argues PMs…
Teresa Torres interviews the co-founders of Earmark, a productivity suite that runs multiple AI agents during live meetings to produce finished artifacts such as specs, tickets, and prototypes rather than passive…
Marty Cagan argues that the scarcest resource for product people is effective coaching, since most managers lack the time or skill to provide it, and that foundation AI models configured with good instructions and…
The essay challenges the common assumption that publicly expressed vulnerability signals humility. The excerpt, which is cut off early, suggests the author will argue that vulnerability performed with a veneer of…
Teresa Torres explains "context rot," the pattern where large language model performance degrades as the context window fills up with conversation history and input. Drawing on recent research (Liu et al. 2023, Paulsen…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille examine why hiring processes often fail product teams despite their rigor. They describe how AI-inflated application volumes, longer funnels, and many stakeholders create noise, and how…
Tal and Aman argue that the fastest way to build intuition for AI products is to use coding agents like Cursor for non-technical product work rather than consumer chat tools. The post walks readers through setup, model…
This post is a monthly reading guide for a book club celebrating the fifth anniversary of Continuous Discovery Habits, focused on Chapter 3 about outcomes versus outputs. It frames the chapter's core idea: product teams…