“A few years ago I was drowning in administrative work. To deliver high-quality online courses we were patching together several different tools to create a good student experience. We used Teachable as our course platform, Slack for our community, Zoom for our live sessions, Google Calendar to send out”
Marty Cagan argues that Agile methods such as Scrum originated in the custom software world, where software is built for a specific customer under contract, rather than in product software companies. That origin…
This episode of Just Now Possible, hosted by Teresa Torres, is an in-depth look at how Doist built Ramble, a voice-to-task feature in Todoist that turns spoken brain dumps into structured tasks in real time. Ramble was…
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…
Hiten Shah argues that transformative technologies often look like toys at first, and that Wabi's playful mini-apps are an early stage of a new personal operating system. He compares this to the early personal computer…
Hiten Shah traces the idea of 'slop' from 19th-century pig feed and swill milk through naval slop chests, industrial refineries, institutional cafeteria food and today's algorithmic content feeds. His core argument is…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille discuss how they use AI as strategic thought partners across writing, coding, and product work rather than as ghostwriters. Petra describes a voice-first, bilingual transcription workflow…
Cagan argues that the traditional role of the salesperson is shrinking as customers now research, trial, and buy products online before ever talking to a rep. He identifies the main barriers that kept people buying…
This podcast episode features three leaders from Neople, a company building 'digital coworkers' that automate work such as customer support, invoice processing, and drafting emails. The conversation traces how Neople…
A guest post from GiveDirectly's team, shared alongside a Giving Tuesday fundraising appeal, walks through the experiments that raised roughly $3 million more in donations per year. It covers winning tests like faster…
Teresa Torres argues that the outrage over Facebook's social contagion experiment is inconsistent with how news outlets and internet companies already operate. She notes that editors and headline writers routinely…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille discuss how personal, low-stakes experiments with AI at home can build the confidence and judgment product builders need at work and when designing AI-powered products. Teresa describes her…
This episode of Teresa Torres's show features Jack Taylor and Ibrahim Faruqi of Gradient Labs, an AI-native fintech startup automating customer support. They argue frontline answers are only the visible tip of support…