Marty Cagan revisits Fred Brooks's classic essay "No Silver Bullet" and argues that the software world is full of advocates who present a single favorite technique as the answer to everything. He acknowledges that he…
“Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts In this episode of All Things Product, Petra Wille and Teresa Torres explore how experimenting with AI in our personal lives can help us become more confident, capable, and thoughtful product builders at work. Teresa shares stories from her “AI at Home””
This podcast episode, hosted by Teresa Torres with co-host Petra Wille, previews the 2026 Product at Heart conference. The hosts explain that curating a single-track event is harder when AI moves so quickly, so AI will…
In the season opener of this podcast, hosts Teresa Torres and Petra Wille reflect on the 2025 Product at Heart conference theme of curation. They argue that curation, choosing what to build, prioritize, and serve, is…
Lenny answers a reader who is joining a team with a history of underperformance, arguing that a turnaround is both risky and a strong career opportunity. He advises setting expectations with the manager early, since…
Shreyas Doshi argues that when two highly competitive, ego-driven product managers must negotiate with each other, the outcome tends to be poor for everyone involved. The piece frames this as a recurring pattern in some…
Marty Cagan argues that ethics deserves its own explicit place in product decisions, proposing a fifth risk alongside value, usability, feasibility and business viability: 'Should we build it?' He notes ethics often…
Lenny 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…
Lenny Rachitsky collected over a thousand reader stories about personal tools they built through vibe coding, then curated 50+ examples spanning health, parenting, work, music and fun. His core argument is that…
This post reports feedback from the first cohort of Teresa Torres's Continuous Interviewing course, which ran for 50 product managers, designers, and UX researchers. It recaps the course's rationale, drawing on…
Lenny Rachitsky's year-end roundup collects the most popular posts from his newsletter, grouped by theme such as AI, career, strategy, growth, and execution, plus a few all-time classics. He also reviews his 2025 goals…
Lenny Rachitsky shares a product-and-brand guide compiled with builder-investor Justin Mares, covering health-focused choices for sleep, clothing, food, supplements, toxin mitigation, and everyday items. The core…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille argue that people who feel their problems are too small for AI are mistaken; the real blocker is lack of exposure to what AI is good at. Teresa describes her habit of testing one to-do item…
Teresa Torres argues that people feel overwhelmed by AI but can build practical skills by starting with simple, everyday uses of large language models. She presents a graded set of use cases, from basic search…
Teresa Torres uses the story of a skier who tried to build a snowboard that worked like skis, despite lukewarm feedback, to show how product teams fall into one-idea-at-a-time thinking. Drawing on the Heath brothers'…
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Teresa Torres argues that people often hear what they expect rather than what was actually said, which leads teams to disagree about the same user interview and to build the wrong product. Because great products depend…
Tal Raviv, guest-writing for Lenny's Newsletter, offers a hands-on guide to using AI agents to offload repetitive product management work. He walks through setting up a simple customer-prep agent, a checklist for…
Marty Cagan reflects on two years of generative AI's impact on product management, distinguishing between adding AI to products and using AI to change how products are built. He admits his earlier predictions were too…
Hiten Shah argues that building in public began as a risky, honest practice where founders shared unfinished thinking to find like-minded people and sharpen their own conviction. As audiences grew and tools for…
Teresa Torres shares a list of lesser-known blogs she follows, inspired by Daniel Pink's year-end recommendations. Rather than product blogs, she highlights writers covering learning, decision making, happiness…
Teresa Torres, a product coach and course creator, announces she is recruiting product managers and product leaders for customer interviews. She argues that after two years of teaching and coaching, she needs to…
Julie Zhuo's paid essay reflects on the path into founding a company, framing it as a hero's journey shaped by conviction. Based on the excerpt provided, the piece looks back on the starting point and suggests founders…
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…