Lenny Rachitsky compiles informal Twitter poll results on the software tools product, design, analytics, research, and data teams rely on, plus what early-stage founders buy first and spend most on. The post separates…
“Continuous discovery is about changing your behavior. That’s why Teresa named her book Continuous Discovery Habits. You don’t just think your way into continuous discovery. Sure, it’s important to understand the underlying concepts. But the concepts don’t mean much if you’re not making real changes”
Shreyas Doshi argues that peer-reviewed studies on human psychology and behavior are often over-trusted by smart people. Such research typically reports averages and correlations across populations, which says little…
Teresa Torres walks through a worked example of a clear product vision using her side project GratiGrams, a service for sharing specific appreciation with others. She shows how a vision statement, mission, core values…
Teresa Torres argues that good continuous discovery depends on first surfacing the hidden assumptions behind each idea, since teams can't test beliefs they haven't named. She proposes five assumption categories…
Teresa Torres argues that acceptance criteria are often the missing piece of a user story, and that they determine when a story is ready for release. She contends that criteria should be written from the end-user's…
Teresa Torres argues that customer interviews are among the most valuable and sustainable ways for product teams to learn about customers, creating a compounding competitive advantage. She separates true customer…
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…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille discuss a trend on LinkedIn of generating Opportunity Solution Trees with AI, including tools that promise instant user insights from synthetic personas. They argue that product teams…
Teresa Torres argues that user story prioritization is a balancing act rather than a formula. She suggests first setting high-level priorities through themes, then ranking stories within each theme by expected impact…
Once leaders assign a problem to a product team, they must also signal how ambitious the team should be in its discovery work. Cagan frames objectives as bets that spread risk across a portfolio, ranging from low-risk…
This episode of Just Now Possible features the eSpark team discussing how they built Teacher Assistant, an AI feature that helps K–5 teachers align eSpark's supplemental lessons with district-mandated core curricula…
Teresa Torres's continuous-discovery practice depends on interviewing customers every week, but finding participants is the hardest part and often blocks the habit. This Product in Practice piece profiles Dan Clem at…
This episode of a product podcast walks through how Xelix built an AI Helpdesk for accounts payable teams, which often receive over a thousand vendor emails daily. The product turns that inbox noise into structured…
Teresa Torres interviews the founders of Rest, a startup that built a voice-first AI sleep coach grounded in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBTI). The team began by noticing that users of their podcast app…
Teresa Torres responds to Hope Gurion's proposal to add customer segments to opportunity solution trees, arguing that the tool should stay simple and focused on a single product outcome. She disagrees with two of Hope's…
Teresa Torres argues that frequent, consistent customer interviews are a keystone habit of continuous discovery, since they make other discovery habits easier to adopt. She addresses who to interview: early on, anyone…
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…
A paid newsletter post summarizing Lenny Rachitsky's podcast conversation with SEO expert Ethan Smith. It explains the three main types of SEO, contrasts contextual and navigational internal links, and argues that…
Marty Cagan argues that strong project management is a hidden driver of successful product organizations, using eBay's Lynn Reedy as the example. He contends that project management is distinct from product management…
Teresa Torres argues that elaborate bug-management systems, with endless triage meetings and debates over priority and severity, waste product teams' time. She sorts bugs into three buckets: those that must interrupt…
Teresa Torres argues that opportunity mapping, the first step of building an opportunity solution tree, breaks down when teams generate opportunities from memory, which produces vague, unactionable ideas. Actionable…
Marty Cagan argues that product teams doing discovery often move far too slowly, risking wasted time and money on unvalidated ideas. He distinguishes time-boxing (fixed work period followed by reflection) from…
This episode of a product podcast features Incident.io's founding engineer Lawrence Jones and AI product lead Ed Dean discussing how their team is building an AI SRE that helps diagnose and respond to production…