“Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Is "taste" the must-have skill of the AI era — or just the latest tech buzzword? In this episode, Petra Wille and Teresa Torres unpack the growing hype around taste as a differentiating human trait in a world where AI is eating”
Marty Cagan responds to a public interview with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky by examining alternatives to product managers. He defines product management as owning the value and viability of what gets built, and argues that…
Marty Cagan argues that some of the best product people are not product managers at all, and that many strong product thinkers he knows are engineers. He defines a strong product person as someone obsessed with solving…
Marty Cagan uses the social contract that Stanford's d.school Launchpad course requires of its students as a lens on what strong product leaders must commit to. The contract centers on not complaining about workload…
Lenny Rachitsky shares practical time-management tactics for product managers, who often lack hard deadlines and get pulled into shallow work. The post centers on protecting deep work blocks and keeping a simple…
Teresa Torres argues that reading about a craft, whether storytelling or product management, does not make you good at it. Just as the Pixar story rules circulated widely without producing new Pixar-caliber…
Lenny Rachitsky's paid newsletter, the second part of a series, recommends 24 long-standing books for product builders, grouped by the jobs they help with, such as design, taste, influence, starting a company, career…
In this podcast episode, Teresa Torres and Petra Wille trade stories about the formative experiences that shaped their product careers. Teresa recounts running a startup through the 2008 recession, where prioritization…
Marty Cagan argues that the scarcest resource for product people is effective coaching, since most managers lack the time or skill to provide it, and that foundation AI models configured with good instructions and…
Marty Cagan argues that strong product people need both ambition and agency, and that agency depends on ambition: skills alone won't drive action without a desire to improve. He reflects on how some product people…
The essay challenges the common assumption that publicly expressed vulnerability signals humility. The excerpt, which is cut off early, suggests the author will argue that vulnerability performed with a veneer of…
This podcast episode, hosted by Teresa Torres and Petra Wille, examines why product leaders struggle to protect time for deep, focused work such as strategic thinking, team alignment, and creative exploration. The hosts…
Martina Lauchengco, a long-time SVPG partner, shares her origin story: an instinct for finding better ways that grew from a childhood shaped by her father's habit of challenging the status quo. She recounts early…
Guest author Ben Erez argues against the view that feature-team PMs are merely project managers, contending they do real product work and that feature-factory setups can suit CEOs with strong product visions. He…
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…
Melissa Perri interviews two product leaders, Alicia Hurst (Group PM at JW Player, hiring for an NYC team) and Vibhor Chhabra (VP of Product at TaxJar, a company that has always been fully remote), about hiring…
Tal Raviv argues that LLMs become genuinely useful for complex knowledge work only when given persistent, rich context about a person's goals, role, team, and organization. He calls this setup a personal "AI copilot"…
Teresa Torres, a product discovery coach, shares the standout books from her 2013 reading list of roughly 50 titles. She recommends a mix of sales, energy management, luck versus skill, analytics, presentation…
In this podcast conversation, Teresa Torres and host Petra Wille discuss Product Talk Academy's shift from purely instructor-led cohort courses toward on-demand learning options. Torres explains why she resisted…
Marty Cagan argues against a common corporate arrangement that splits the product role between a 'product manager' who handles customers and stakeholders and a 'product owner' who handles the backlog and developers. He…
Lenny Rachitsky marks his newsletter reaching 500,000 subscribers by sharing ten lessons from building it. His core argument is that quality and consistency matter far more than design, branding, or growth tactics. He…
Marty Cagan argues that integrity is the foundation of trust in empowered product teams, and that trust rests on both competence and character. He acknowledges that integrity is hard to maintain, since product managers…
This issue of Lenny Rachitsky's newsletter answers three reader questions. The first addresses impostor syndrome in product management, with a guest contribution from executive coach Kate Hosie reframing it through…
John Cutler, writing in his newsletter The Beautiful Mess, reflects on starting a new job and the intensive effort of learning how the product, workflows, history, people, and artifacts all fit together. Rather than…