All Episodes
Product Thinking — 100 episodes
Saying "No" Effectively: 5 Ways to Say No As a Product Manager
The End of Product Management at Airbnb
Winner Takes All: Book Review
Messi, Estimating, Heatwaves, AI, and House of Suns: Monthly Wrap from June
Why We're So Bad At Estimating: And What We Can Do About It
Lessons in Thinking Long Term: Understanding Consequences of Short-Term Focus
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values - Book Review
Twitter, True Grit, and Giving Up On Your Dreams: Monthly Wrap from May
Product Failures From Twitter and Others: Learning From Past Mistakes
Ingredients of a Roadmap: Like Cookies, You Need Some Key Elements
The Innovator's Handbook: Book Review
Skepticism, Martian Westerns, and Better Call Saul: Monthly Wrap from April
A Healthy Dose of Skepticism: Finding the Signal in the Noise
Product Management and Engineering: How to Effectively Communicate and Work Together
Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World - Book Review
Decision Demons, TikTok, and Emoji Watches: March Monthly Wrap
Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Curiosity, TikTok, and Free Speech
3 Lessons from Silicon Valley Bank: What The Rest of Us Can Learn from the Failure of SVB
Finding Whole-Life Balance: Avoiding Myopia and Burnout, and Actively Finding Balance
Life is Hard: Book Review
Product Roadmaps, Mechanical Watches, and the Science of Fun
The Messiness of Doing The Work: What Some Managers Don't Understand
Product Roadmaps: What Are They Good For
Zone to Win: Book Review
Shower Thoughts, Inner Circles, Networks and Prioritization
Airplane Seat Switching and The Endowment Effect: Having Empathy and Understanding Our Own Fallacies
Product Prioritization: A Strategic Framework for Building the Right Thing
Crossing the Chasm: Book Review
Taylor Swift, Quiet Quitting, Ninja Turtles and Books: Monthly Wrap from December
Top Books of 2022: A Look Back at our Favorite Product and Non-Product Books
ChatGPT and Cautious Optimism: Imminent Job Killer? Probably Not.
Four Thousand Weeks: Book Review
Reggae, Holiday Gifts, Blue Checks, and Van Gogh: Monthly Wrap from November
10 Gift Ideas for Product Managers and Designers
Elon, Twitter, and Blue Checks: Product Feature Critique
The Laws of Creativity: Book Review
Underpants Gnomes, Chess Cheating, and The Laws of Creativity: Monthly Wrap from October
Sales Commitments vs. Product Commitments: Maybe We're Not So Different After All
Mastering Future Questions: Practicing So You Can Be Prepared
Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow: Book Review
Lumber Prices, Second Jobs, Floppy Disks and Pax Romana: September Monthly Wrap
The Art of Exploration: Taking an Idea from Abstract to Concrete
The Importance of Simplicity: Keeping It Simple Early
Loved: How to Rethink Marketing for Tech Products - A Book Review
Systems, Three-Body Problems, Resurrectionists and Yellowstone: August Monthly Wrap
Dogs and Data and Assumptions: Bonus Week and Off Topic
When the System is the Problem: Working within the system vs changing the system
The Forest for the Trees: Zooming out to see the real problems
The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker: Book Review
Being Overconfident, Getting Stupider, and Banning NFTs: Monthly Wrap from July
How to Be Wrong and Overconfident
Camping Trips and Creating Products: Building Better Products By Learning Each Time Through
Build by Tony Fadell: Book Review
Extreme Open-Mindedness, Free Will, and Reorgs: Monthly Wrap from June
Creating Product Principles: Developing A Framework for Alignment and Decision Making
Extreme Open-Mindedness: The Mark of Educated (and Product) Minds
How Innovation Works: Book Review
You Are Not Your Customer, But You Should Be
The Startup Owner's Manual: Book Review
Understanding Product Packaging: The Key Components of Pricing and Packaging
Building A StoryBrand: Book Review
Processes Shouldn't Be Ends
The Scout Mindset: Book Review
Optimizing for Teams Rather Than Management
Arriving Today: Book Review
Take Home Interview Assignments: 6 Tips for Managers and Interviewers To Do Them Right
My Top 10 Books From 2021
The Importance of Product Strategy: Without Vision and Strategy, Everything is Tactics
The Alchemy of Us: Book Review
Long Reads: Rethinking History, Remote Work, And Teleportation
Learning from Zillow - Lack of Focus and Long-Term Thinking
Everybody Lies: Using Data to Better Understand People, Products, and Society
Product Discovery Interviews: A Guide and Framework For Effectively Talking to Users
The Mom Test: Book Review
Supply Chains, Shortages, Monopolies & More
Understanding the Problem:
Ultralearning: Book Review
Ownership and Accountability
Creative Selection: Book Review
Killing Features: The Art of Persisting Versus Ending Features
User Empathy: Understanding Other Perspectives for a Better Experience
Serendipity and Invention: Creating Products and Experiences Through Luck and Skill
The Myths of Innovation: Book Review
User Empathy and Outcomes: Understanding the "Why" and Getting Past Our Own Perspective
Ritual Cats - Stopping To Question Our Habits To Improve Our Outcomes
5 Whys Mindset - Asking Why For Deeper Understanding And To Get To The Root Cause
Planting Trees - Long-Term Investments Over Short-Term Payoffs
Working Backwards - Book Review
What is Innovation?
What is Product Management?
Customer Retention: The Importance of Retaining Your Users and Continuously Adding Value
Book Review - Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products
What Have You Failed At Recently - Overcoming the Fear of Failure
6 Ways to Avoid Burnout - Prioritizing Mental Health and Finding Your "Why"
5 Tips For Product Interviews
Productization, Disruption, Bubbles, and More
Death by Data - Avoiding Analysis Paralysis By Taking Action
Taking the Long-Term View: Product Thinking and Mars Colonies
Creating a Culture of Recognition
Jeff Bezos and Amazon