Marty Cagan profiles eight strong product leaders featured in his new book EMPOWERED, spanning product management, design, engineering, and company leadership. Drawing on years of working alongside them, he sketches how…
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…
Lenny Rachitsky argues that non-technical people should use Claude Code, which he frames as a local-feeling AI agent that can act on files and tools on a computer. The post walks through installation steps, shows five…
Cagan argues that product people operate in the idea business, and that depending only on one's own ideas severely limits potential. The core lesson is to actively seek out the smartest people across the company, since…
Lenny Rachitsky, introducing a guest post by Colin on AI leverage for product managers, argues that PM work is shifting from coordination toward hands-on building with AI. The post lays out three ladders of leverage…
“In our last article, we argued that especially in the age of AI, we are all builders, but that there is a very meaningful difference between building to learn (known as product discovery) versus building to earn (known as product delivery). Moreover, we argued that as the cost of product delivery continues to drop, the... The post Build To Learn…”
Marty Cagan argues that generative AI will reshape product teams over the next 3-10 years. Delivery work (building, testing, deploying) will become nearly instantaneous and automated, leaving product discovery, which is…
Teresa Torres argues that product managers make dozens of decisions daily and tend to feel confident about them, yet decision research shows people often make poor choices while believing they are sound. Our minds are…
Teresa Torres shares her top picks from the 74 books she read in 2015, grouped into product-management-adjacent titles, books on meaning and happiness, academic reads that shaped her thinking, and favorite fiction. The…
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…
Teresa Torres recounts how, starting as a complete AI beginner after an ankle injury in March 2025, she transformed her product-discovery work over about fifteen months. She moved from using ChatGPT as a search engine…
The source text provided is only the title, subtitle, author, date, and type, with no body content to analyze. The title suggests an essay on the Antithesis Principle, framed as something smart people overlook and wise…
Product Talk's community manager, Welena Villasoto, shows how a non-PM can run a weekly continuous interviewing practice. She practiced story-based interviewing with Teresa Torres first, moving from talking too much to…
Marty Cagan notices that several of the strongest product companies, including Apple, Google and Amazon, have very different cultures yet share a hidden common thread: their founders were coached by Bill Campbell, the…
Executive coach Natalie Rothfels explains why asking for help builds career leverage rather than signaling weakness. The post offers a four-phase method for working through fear of asking, a structured template for…
Teresa Torres uses her annual letter to reflect on a burnout-filled 2024, where she rediscovered joy in her work by reworking her community, launching a self-paced course, and tightening her email and webinar offerings…
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…
Christian Idiodi argues that hiring experienced product people is not enough, because even strong hires lack the company-specific context, decision-making knowledge, and relationships needed to succeed. Standard…
An interview-style episode with Marily Nika, an AI product leader, on how product managers can use AI in their work and build AI-powered products. She covers practical ChatGPT prompts, when to build versus buy models…
Marty Cagan reflects on a recent article he wrote critiquing the MBA pathology in product management, which he admits backfired. Although the core message was valid, opening the piece with a provocative Elon Musk quote…
Marty Cagan argues that product managers who are forbidden from talking directly with users should push hard to change that policy, and if they cannot, should consider leaving for a company where they can do their job…
Teresa Torres publishes a running list of product, UX, and product-management conferences planned for 2020, organized by month with dates, names, and locations. The list is explicitly non-exhaustive and invites readers…
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…
Lenny Rachitsky argues that most job postings are dull and that a standout posting is a high-return investment for attracting applicants and strengthening brand. He shares several examples from companies like…