Marty Cagan distinguishes coaching from mentoring using a distinction he learned from Bill Campbell. Both are valuable, but mentoring is offered as honest opinion the mentee may or may not act on, so the mentor carries…
“Remote onboarding completely changes your first month experience. You have no natural way to meet coworkers. There are no first week outings or get-to-know-you coffee chats. Most of your video call interactions are with your direct superior. While all of this makes it particularly nerve-wracking to start a new job virtually, I promise there are also wonderful aspects about your…”
Cagan argues that most websites are hard to use, ugly, or both, and that even companies that invest in design often fall short. He observes that interaction designers tend to produce usable but dull sites, while visual…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille discuss a world where nearly every conversation is recorded and transcribed by AI note-takers and wearable devices. Teresa found, after checking her own Granola transcripts, that her…
Teresa Torres announces a second run of the Continuous Discovery Habits (CDH) Benchmark Survey, aimed at measuring how many product teams have adopted a continuous cadence to discovery work. She argues that the…
Teresa Torres profiles Yury Oleynik, VP of Product Management at HiveMQ, and how his team automated recruiting for continuous customer interviews. Early manual outreach campaigns to thousands of free-plan users yielded…
Lenny answers a reader's question about having separate design and engineering roadmaps, arguing that cross-functional teams should converge on one source-of-truth roadmap. He outlines the core benefits of a shared…
Lenny Rachitsky lays out seven practical strategies for earning a promotion, drawing on his own roughly nine promotions over a 16-year career. The core argument is that consistent, impactful work is the foundation, and…
Teresa Torres describes the problem of sharing AI context files and Claude Code skills across multiple personal devices and with a colleague. She walks through why Dropbox, iCloud and git each fell short, mainly because…
Lenny Rachitsky shares compensation benchmarks for product managers across the U.S., Europe, the U.K., and Canada, using Pave data drawn from over 23,000 PMs. The post breaks down base salary, equity, and total comp by…