Taste

Show Notes

• What Is "Taste" — and Why Is Everyone Suddenly Talking About It?

• The Problem with Defining Taste

• Taste vs. Preference

• Will AI Eat Taste Too?

So What Should You Actually Invest In?

• Discovery skills — understanding customers, matching solutions to real needs

• Human-to-human interaction skills

• Learning to collaborate with AI effectively

• Critical thinking and judgment grounded in evidence

Key Quotes

"It's just this month's flavor of founder mode." — Teresa Torres

"It's not about your taste. It's about your customer's taste." — Teresa Torres

"I am a strong believer that you develop product sense and taste over time. It's never finished." — Petra Wille

Resources & Links:

• Follow Teresa Torres: ProductTalk.org

• Follow Petra Wille: Petra-Wille.com

Mentioned in this episode:

• Founder mode (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founder_mode)

• Marty Cagan: Founder-Style Leadership (vimeo.com/1101762800?fl=pl&fe=sh)

• Vercel/v0 CEO Guillermo Rauch on building taste: from Lenny Rachitsky’s Linkedin post (linkedin.com/posts/lennyrachitsky_vercelv0-ceo…)

• Continuous discovery (Read Teresa’s Everyone Can Do Continuous Discovery—Even You! Here’s How (producttalk.org/getting-started-with-discovery)

• The "great man" theory (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_man_theory_)

• Steve Jobs (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs) and the myth of the lone product visionary