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Make Things That Matter
What if our products and companies gave more life to everything they touched? Making this a reality is our quest, through impactful product leadership, strategy, decision making, and culture. blog.makethingsthatmatter.com
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Itamar Gilad: the GIST of product discovery
Itamar Gilad is the author of Evidence Guided, which is my favorite book out there on how to practically DO product discovery. Prior to becoming a pro...
Steve Portigal: Improving your user research process
Steve Portigal is a veteran user research leader and consultant who helps companies mature their research practices. He’s the author of Interviewing U...
Christian Idiodi: Telling the story of transformation
Christian Idiodi is a partner at Silicon Valley Product Group (SVPG). Before SVPG, he profoundly shaped or reshaped the culture and products of Career...
Martina Hodges-Schell: Understanding your operating model
Martina Hodges-Schell is a transformation coach and consultant that helps organizations adopt a Silicon Valley approach to innovation. She spent 25 ye...
Marty Cagan: Moving to the product model
Marty Cagan joins me for real talk about what it takes to transform into a strong product company.
You can read the episode transcript here.
Randy Silver: The conversations that create impactful products
Randy Silver is a product leadership advisor, podcast host, and global product community weaver. We explore the conversations needed to drive impact a...
(Bonus) Chris Smith: Simple guidelines for AI investment sizing
Chris Smith is a longtime engineering leader who has been in the trenches of building with AI & machine learning for years. This is a short, bonus epi...
Chris Smith: How to think about adding AI to your product
Chris Smith is a longtime engineering leader who has been in the trenches of building with AI & machine learning for years. He’s led the development o...
Nacho Bassino: How to build your first product strategy
Nacho Bassino is a veteran product leader and the author of Product Direction, one of my go-to books on how to actually generate a product strategy. T...
Pam Fox Rollin: Growing Groups Into Teams
Pam Fox Rollin is an executive coach and strategist. This is a conversation about the conversations that leaders are not having. These are THE differe...
Eisha Armstrong: Pragmatic Strategies for Managing Change
Zooming in on three common change management issues: forecasting, role transitions, and departmental power dynamics.
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MJ Jastrebski: How to build resilience and stay buoyant as a CPO
MJ Jastrebski is the CPO of Stylitics, a rapidly scaling retail technology company that helps retail websites automate styling and bundling for their...
Thank you, and a brief update
It's been quiet around here because I'm in deep in the creative process of reimagining this show, and I need your help. Podcast analytics are terrible...
Donna Lichaw: The leader's journey
Donna Lichaw is an executive coach for unconventional leaders, and the author of the newly-released book The Leader’s Journey.
Donna brings a b...
Adam Thomas: Operationalizing your product strategy
Adam Thomas is a coach that helps product teams operationalize strategy so they spend more time focused on building the right products and less time f...
Mike Saloio: Leadership, meditation, ego, and ubuntu
Mike Saloio is the CEO and cofounder of Huddle, a startup that brings together fractional swat teams of expert builders to help startups generate real...
Rob Walling: The SaaS playbook and gut intuition
The SaaS Playbook will shave years off your learning curve if you want to build a SaaS. Rob Walling is a serial entrepreneur and the internet godfathe...
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What do you do when one of your top three KPIs is stagnant, and the product isn't growing? A micro case study in debugging retention and unlocking gro...
Petra Wille: Building a community of practice
Petra Wille is a product leadership coach and the author of Strong Product People, my go-to book for the people development side of being a product le...
Bob Moesta: Prototyping to learn & applying JTBD theory
Bob Moesta is one of the pioneers of Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) theory, which has fundamentally changed the way we think about building products and disco...
Sahil Lavingia: Independent Thinking + Pricing Changes at Gumroad
Sahil Lavingia has had an epic journey as an entrepreneur: he dropped out of college to become employee #2 at Pinterest and then went on to found Gumr...
5 Takeaways from a week with some of the world's best product coaches
Five things I (re)learned from spending a week with SVPG + some of the best product coaches in the world.
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DJ DiDonna: Navigating sabbaticals and career breaks
DJ DiDonna helps us approach taking REAL time off and evolving our identity along with our career.
Whether you’re feeling like you need to take...
#59 Kenny Borg: Identity transformation + embodying fulfillment
Kenny Borg helps us explore the ongoing evolution of our identity, deal with imposter syndrome, and embody fulfillment throughout the journey instead...
#58 Scott Young: Learning for Real Life
Scott Young is an expert on rapid, effective learning. This ep will help you learn new skills effectively and quickly amidst the chaos of real life.
#57 Rob Fitzpatrick: Shaping an Entrepreneurial Career
Rob Fitzpatrick is the author of The Mom Test, and he'll help you fight the good fight to bring your ideas into the world.
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#56 Ash Maurya: The Innovator's Gift
Ash Maurya introduces "The Innovator's Gift" to help you find problems worth solving, and navigate the uncertainty of new product ideas.
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How do I do continuous discovery for a new product, pre-PMF?
How to apply continuous discovery techniques to a nascent, early stage product that doesn't yet have product-market fit.
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#54 David Kadavy: Creative self-actualization
David Kadavy will help you follow your curiosity, find your way to creative self-actualization, and learn to discern what you really want.
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#53: Turning over a tough year
Some short thoughts on how to review and close out a tough year, and set ourselves up for a powerful, generative new year.
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#52 How to get more creative flow in your work day
Flow is defined as an optimal state of consciousness, where you feel and perform at your best. This episode will help you get more of it in your day.<...
#51 Two years in: Making things that matter
Wow: two years of making things that matter! Andrew checks in with lessons learned in year two, impactful episodes and show updates.
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#50 Bo Burlingham: Small Giants & the roots of great businesses
Best known for his books Small Giants and The Great Game of Business, Bo is an editor-at-large of Inc. magazine and the author of five books which hav...
#49: Thoughts on entrepreneurship and philanthropy
This episode flips the script and makes Andrew the guest, exploring his views on entrepreneurship and philanthropy.
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#48 ARM redux: 4 nuances of fulfilling work
This episode explores four nuances of creative and fulfilling work. It share lessons from follow-on conversations to ep42 about ARM, a mental model fo...
#47 Matt Kressy: Love as creative fuel
Matt Kressy is the founding director of the Integrated Design & Management (IDM) program at MIT. This conversation is a heartfelt exploration about ar...
#46 The Infinite Game, by Simon Sinek: Book summary
This episode reviews the key ideas from "The Infinite Game," a massively transformative book by Simon Sinek, and explores how to apply them to your wo...
#45: The Timeless Way of Leading
This adapts the core ideas from "The Timeless Way of Building," a classic of architectural theory, to creative and personal leadership.
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#44 Teresa Torres: Habits for clear thinking and better product bets
Teresa Torres teaches an approach to product creation and creative work that will help you think more clearly, make better decisions, and raise the od...
#43 Courtney Bigony: Life above neutral with Positive Product Design
Courtney Bigony is on a mission to align tech products with the latest science of human thriving. She's the creator of Positive Product Design and th...