AI At Home And Work

In this episode:

• How Teresa started documenting her own AI use cases at home and work

• Why starting with “low-stakes” personal experiments helps build confidence

• Practical ways to use AI at home — from planning meals to analyzing public data

• Using AI as a thought partner vs. a fully automated agent

• Balancing privacy, data safety, and creativity at work

• How everyday AI use builds critical skills like context management, bias awareness, and human-in-the-loop decision-making

Key Quotes:
“I’m trying to write things that only I can write — that’s my guiding writing light right now.” — Teresa

“The more we use AI, the more we learn what it’s good at, what it’s not good at, and where context becomes a limitation.” — Teresa

“It’s a safer playground — we can build our toolbox at home before bringing those lessons to work.” — Petra

Resources & Links:

• Follow Teresa Torres: ProductTalk.org

• Follow Petra Wille: Petra-Wille.com

Mentioned in the episode:

• Josh Seiden (joshuaseiden.com)’s Learn AI With Me, A 30-Day Sprint (joshuaseiden.substack.com/p/learn-ai-with-me-a…)
Teresa’s blog series: 15 Ways to Use AI at Home (and Fill Your AI Product Toolbox) (producttalk.org/15-ways-to-use-ai-at-home) and 21 Ways to Use AI at Work (And Build Your AI Product Toolbox) (producttalk.org/21-ways-to-use-ai-at-work)

• Context window (ibm.com/think/topics/context-window)

• Midjourney (midjourney.com/home)

• Sora (openai.com/sora)

• Product at Heart Conference (productatheart.com)

• Hallucination (artificial intelligence) (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination_(artificia…))

• AI bias (ibm.com/think/topics/ai-bias)

• Context is King (youtu.be/yYMKdSo_gy0) - All Things Product Podcast episode

• Agentic AI (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agentic_AI)

• Claude by Anthropic (claude.ai)

• ChatGPT by OpenAI (chatgpt.com)

• Claude Code (claude.com/product/claude-code)

• Readwise (readwise.io)

• Ghost (ghost.org)