By Teresa Torres · producttalk.org · @ttorres on X · LinkedIn
This post announces the 2026 Continuous Discovery Habits Book Club, a monthly reading program built around Teresa Torres's book to help readers practice continuous discovery rather than just read about it. The January installment covers the book's introduction and first two chapters, which define continuous discovery, explain why discovery and delivery should run concurrently, describe product trios, outline six prerequisite mindsets, and introduce the opportunity solution tree. Most of the guide is logistics and engagement: reflection questions, a team exercise to map current decision-making, an audit of recent product decisions, community sessions, and sponsor messages. The underlying value is in encouraging teams to first establish an honest baseline of how they currently decide what to build before attempting to change it.
01Key takeaways
- Draw your team's real discovery process, including where ideas originate and where customers enter, rather than an idealized version.
- Audit recent product decisions to see how many relied on direct customer input versus assumptions, opinions, or secondhand information.
- Check whether cross-functional meetings are making decisions or merely handing off work.
- Establish a baseline of current habits before trying to change them, since honest self-assessment comes first.
- Compare your perceptions of the process with teammates' to surface gaps in shared understanding.
02Key sections
- Book club announcement
- The author introduces the 2026 book club as a way to build community and spread the book's ideas across organizations. Monthly guides, videos, and live sessions are promised to help readers apply the habits.
- Reading scope for this month
- The month covers the introduction and the first two chapters, focusing on continuous discovery, product trios, prerequisite mindsets, and the opportunity solution tree. Estimated reading time is about forty minutes.
- Reflection and team discussion
- Prompts ask readers to examine whether recent decisions relied on opinion, data, or customer input, and to assess their personal strengths among the six mindsets. Team questions probe how discovery and delivery are connected and whether cross-functional work produces decisions or just handoffs.
- Baseline exercises
- Readers draw their team's actual discovery process and audit last week's product decisions for the source of information behind each one. The goal is awareness of current practice, not improvement yet.
- Resources and schedule
- The guide lists related articles, external voices, a course, and a schedule of paid live discussion sessions through 2026. Sponsor messages for a customer interview challenge and an AI product podcast are included.
03From the post
“Continuous Discovery Habits turns five this year! And what a run it's been. Over 135,000 people have bought the book. And thousands of teams are putting the habits into practice. But I know it's not easy. It can feel like you are the lone champion pushing for”
04Frameworks mentioned
Summary and takeaways written by PM Atlas; quotes are short excerpts. © the original author.