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…
Hiten Shah argues that leaders usually try to engineer culture directly, which rarely works. Instead, culture emerges from the environment (systems, cadences, unwritten rules), and the environment itself is shaped by…
This episode of Just Now Possible features the founders of Banani, a canvas-first AI product designer aimed at giving solo founders and small teams access to tasteful UX. The conversation covers how the company grew…
Teresa Torres walks through her experience vibe coding production software over six months, from early failures to a reliable workflow. She explains what vibe coding is, compares popular apps and agents, and identifies…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille argue that product management is not dead but is changing, as the traditional product trio of PM, design, and engineering blends into a new 'product builder' model. AI raises the baseline…
Claire Vo presents a step-by-step guide to installing, configuring, and using OpenClaw, an open-source personal AI agent that runs locally and takes instructions through everyday chat apps. The post covers hardware and…
Shreyas Doshi argues that most people are poor listeners and that effective interpersonal communication can be built from a small set of foundational axioms rather than memorized tactics. The core idea is that once you…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille discuss AI 'clones' built from podcast transcripts and public content that produce advice attributed to real people, often mediocre or things the person would never say. They explore where…
Lenny Rachitsky's biannual State of the Product Job Market update, based on TrueUp data, argues that early 2026 tech hiring is more optimistic than headlines suggest. It covers rising PM and engineering openings, the…
Jason Fried argues against the idea that AI will spark a bespoke software revolution where everyone builds their own custom tools. He notes that custom software already exists and is usually bloated because clients pay…
Teresa Torres interviews four members of Medable, a clinical trial platform company, about building Agent Studio, a no-code/low-code platform for configuring and deploying AI agents across the clinical trial lifecycle…
Teresa Torres argues that 'outcomes over outputs' is easy to state but hard to practice, because many teams still ship features while being asked to deliver impact. She defines outputs as what a team builds and outcomes…
This podcast episode, hosted by Teresa Torres with guest Petra Wille, addresses how product people can stay grounded and still act helpfully when the world feels overwhelming. The conversation argues that coping need…
Designer Ben Shih describes building LennyRPG, a Pokémon-style pixel game where players meet and quiz Lenny's Podcast guests using transcripts from 300+ episodes. The post walks through his AI-assisted workflow…
Teresa Torres introduces a new series, Conversations with Claude, showing how she uses Claude Code for real work. Her first example is a content audit of Product Talk, which she delegated to Claude with a task file and…
In this podcast episode, Teresa Torres and Petra Wille examine the hard decision of when and how to sunset products that are profitable and liked but no longer growing. They argue that this mediocre middle ground is…
Lenny's paid guest post by April Dunford, a positioning expert who has worked with 300+ B2B companies, covers four advanced roadblocks that derail positioning work. It argues that disagreement over competitors, product…
Hiten Shah revisits his 2015 observation of "infectious enthusiasm" in founders and argues its source is not charisma but a prior, settled decision to pursue the work regardless of outcome. He contends that investors…
Teresa Torres interviews Matthias and Charlotte Kleverud, co-founders of Momental, about building a "GitHub for product management" that ingests documents, transcripts and recordings to map goals, decisions and…
The essay argues that as AI makes execution cheaper and faster, the scarce skill for product managers becomes product sense: the judgment to decide what is worth building and why. Mechanical PM tasks like writing specs…
Teresa Torres argues that product teams are sliding back into feature-factory habits as AI tools make shipping faster, and that stakeholders often arrive with solutions rather than problems. Her core advice is to stop…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille use search-and-rescue research on how lost people behave as a metaphor for product teams that have lost their way. They describe five recurring moves: freezing, chasing shortcuts, following…
Molly Graham introduces the Waterline Model, a diagnostic for underperforming teams that checks four levels in order: structure, dynamics, interpersonal, and individual. Her core argument is that many team problems are…
This book club post kicks off a monthly reading guide for Teresa Torres's Continuous Discovery Habits on its fifth anniversary. It focuses on Chapter 4, which argues that individuals should draw their own experience…