Product discovery coach, author of Continuous Discovery Habits; writes Product Talk.
“In June, I returned to Product at Heart in Hamburg, Germany. I love this event. Arne Kittler and Petra Wille do such an amazing job of curating a thoughtful lineup of speakers and they obsess over the attendee experience. If you are looking for a high-quality product conference, I”
"It can feel like you are the lone champion pushing for change in your organization." That's why we are reading Continuous Discovery Habits together throughout 2026. 📚 The book turns five this year and many of you have bought and read it. But reading isn't the same as doing. So we are reading…
This reading-guide post kicks off a monthly book club around Teresa Torres's Continuous Discovery Habits, focusing on Chapter 9, which covers identifying hidden assumptions. The chapter argues that teams should test the…
NHS clinicians get ten minutes with a generalist, if they can get an appointment at all—leaving little room for the specific, personal questions women's health actually requires. Hertility Health made a longer intake mandatory before purchase, and something unexpected happened: conversion went up…
How do you build trustworthy AI diagnostic tools in one of medicine's most historically under-researched areas? In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Tulsi Patel (Director of Product and Technology), Lorna Brightmore (Head of Data and AI), and Jack Pickard (Head of…
This episode of Just Now Possible features three Hertility team members discussing how they build AI diagnostic tools for women's health in the UK and Ireland. Hertility combines online health assessments, at-home…
I'm seeing a huge difference in performance (in a bad direction) across my evals moving from Sonnet 4.6 to Sonnet 5. Previously, my service ran at temperature 0. I'm wondering what prompt strategies people are using to constrain Sonnet 5 now that temperature is no longer an option.
🎙️Quality of Evidence You've got behavioral analytics, support tickets, sales call notes, and a feedback inbox that never empties. With all that data coming in, do product teams actually still need to go out and talk to users? In this episode, Petra Wille and Teresa Torres dig into why not all…
This podcast episode between Teresa Torres and Petra Wille argues that product teams are flooded with data but that not all evidence carries the same weight. Low-effort signals like support tickets and app reviews are…
Teresa Torres interviews the founders and CTO of Snapbar, a 14-year-old company that started as a wedding photo booth business, pivoted to a virtual product when COVID eliminated its events, and then rebuilt itself…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille argue that individual contributors can build real leadership skills before receiving a title. They suggest first clarifying what leadership means in your own organization, since official…
This reading guide kicks off the Continuous Discovery Habits five-year anniversary book club, focusing on Chapter 8, 'Supercharged Ideation.' It argues that generating many ideas, rather than settling on the first one…
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…
This episode of Just Now Possible features a conversation with Priya Nakra and Olivia Rowley of Override Labs, a nonprofit building technology to prevent gender-based violence. Their flagship product, Is This Okay?…
Teresa Torres talks with Petra Wille about how she and co-organizer Arne design experiences rather than mere events at Product at Heart and related leadership gatherings. Petra explains that intentional sensory details…
This podcast episode argues that organizational change is exhausting and that individuals usually waste energy trying to fix their companies' people and processes. Teresa Torres and Petra Wille describe a three-part…
This podcast episode features three members of Musubi, an AI-native trust and safety toolkit for content platforms, discussing how they build custom-trained ML models and LLM-powered moderation tools tailored to each…
Teresa Torres responds to recent supply-chain attacks on software packages by describing how she hardens her local machine while still letting Claude access many folders for her task and research system. She recaps the…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille argue that the best way to develop a team's skills is often a small, intentional learning group rather than either training everyone at once or leaving people to self-direct. They contrast…
Teresa Torres recounts how a worm known as Mini Shai-Hulud, which spread through popular JavaScript packages in May, pushed her to rethink the security of her AI-assisted building. She explains that most malware follows…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille rant about how absurd corporate procurement has become for outside experts like speakers and consultants. Torres describes contracts with 80-page ethics policies, 800-question security…
This reading guide introduces the June installment of a book club around Continuous Discovery Habits, centered on Chapter 7, which argues that product strategy belongs in the opportunity space rather than the solution…
This episode of Just Now Possible features Lorikeet, a startup building AI customer support concierge agents for regulated industries. The team describes how months of work on the wrong ideas, such as reflection tools…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille question whether the technology industry they have built their careers in is net positive for the world. They reflect candidly on contributing to the internet, social media, and now AI, and…
Teresa Torres describes a personal 'team of agents' built on Claude that works for her while she is away from the computer: a podcast manager, a sales admin, and a coding manager. Each agent prepares tasks, reports, or…
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…
This episode of Just Now Possible features Rhea's Factory's co-founders discussing enzymatic plastic recycling, a biological approach that breaks plastic polymers back into their original monomers rather than merely…
Teresa Torres describes building AI-generated opportunity solution trees for Vistaly as a product manager stepping into engineering with AI assistance. The core difficulty was updating an existing tree with new…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille push back on the hype around the 'product builder' trend, arguing that whether product managers should code or vibe code is the wrong starting question. They suggest first asking whether…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille examine the sudden popularity of "taste" as a prized human skill in the AI era. Teresa argues the term is rarely defined, hard to teach, and can disguise personal preference as expertise…