“December is one of my favorite times of year. I do my best to reduce my client load so I can spend about 50% of my time looking back on the past year and looking forward to the next year. I assess how the year went asking, what went well,”
A guest-authored paid guide from a full-time executive negotiation coach who presents GAINS, a five-step framework (Gather, Align, Influence, Navigate, Secure) for negotiating senior compensation. The core argument is…
Teresa Torres opens 2024 by departing from her usual annual plan, explaining that a sabbatical-style 2023 was derailed by her husband's surgery and a difficult platform migration, leaving her facing burnout. Rather than…
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…
Jason Fried describes almost washing his hands with a tiny fly sitting by the drain. Turning on the tap would have sent it down, but a moment of hesitation let the fly escape on its own. The essay uses this small moment…
🎙️Recorded Conversations We now record almost everything — every meeting has an AI note-taker, and some people wear glasses that capture every word. So what does that do to our relationships when nothing is forgotten and everything can be fact-checked? Petra Wille and Teresa Torres explore the…
Teresa Torres argues that New Year's resolutions fail because people rely on willpower rather than habits, and she draws on habit research such as Charles Duhigg's work. She describes how she built sustainable routines…
Jason Fried's short essay argues that randomness, as seen in untouched nature, is among the most beautiful things there is. He describes forests, fields, stones, light, wind, and water as arrangements that never line up…
Lenny Rachitsky revisits the product job market using TrueUp job-board data, finding a mostly optimistic picture for 2025. Open PM and engineering roles are rising, AI-related roles are growing rapidly, layoffs are…
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…
Shreyas Doshi announces a new resource: a playlist of 23 candid video answers to career questions and dilemmas submitted by readers. The announcement frames the content as blunt and practical, aimed at ambitious…