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: https://ProductTalk.org
• Follow Petra Wille: https://Petra-Wille.com

Mentioned in this episode:

• Founder mode
• Marty Cagan: Founder-Style Leadership
• Vercel/v0 CEO Guillermo Rauch on building taste: from Lenny Rachitsky’s Linkedin post
• Continuous discovery (Read Teresa’s Everyone Can Do Continuous Discovery—Even You! Here’s How
• The "great man" theory
• Steve Jobs and the myth of the lone product visionary