Be Where the Change Is Happening

Lessons from Northwestern on choosing environments, being early, and putting yourself where important changes are unfolding.

May 16, 2026 • 📖 8 min read • Terry Chen

My Thoughts on Designing Interfaces for Agents

As interaction shifts from Human→Tool to Human→Agent→Tool, complexity becomes an affordance—but only if we design for reasoning transfer, progressive visibility, and calibrated trust.

March 8, 2026 • 📖 15 min read • Terry Chen

The AI Stack for a One-Person Company

The complete toolkit for building a billion-dollar company with a team of one. How AI agents handle research, coding, operations, and marketing while you focus on vision.

February 22, 2026 • 📖 9 min read • Terry Chen

CrowdListen as the Real-Time Feedback Layer

Products are conversations, not launches. Crowdlisten is evolving from insight extraction into a real-time feedback layer that connects what builders ship with how audiences actually respond, creating continuous learning loops that compound over time …...

February 15, 2026 • 📖 5 min read • Terry Chen

The Closing Window Frame of AI Applications

Reflections on timing, momentum, and the urgency of positioning in the rapidly evolving AI landscape. From early optimism to the reality of commercialization challenges.

November 12, 2025 • 📖 5 min read • Terry Chen

Learnings from Every on Building an AI-Native Startup

How Every built a million-dollar AI business with just 15 people by embracing AI-first operations. Their engineers write virtually zero code while publishing daily newsletters, shipping products, and running consulting—the most radical example of …...

November 1, 2025 • 📖 7 min read • Terry Chen

The Best Practices Lie: On Dealing with Ambiguity

The methodologies that get you into elite institutions—optimized for speed and pattern recognition—become liabilities when facing the genuine ambiguity of startups and real-world problems.

October 31, 2025 • 📖 8 min read • Terry Chen

From Indexing to Understanding

Discovery is moving from static data retrieval toward systems that understand why a user is searching, not just what they type. The next generation of search experiences must merge precise recall with adaptive reasoning.

October 26, 2025 • 📖 5 min read • Terry Chen

Social Listening for Product Insight

Using AI-powered social listening to extract authentic customer insights from online discourse. Moving from product-to-market to market-to-product development through systematic analysis of community discussions that inform PRDs.

August 29, 2025 • 📖 10 min read • Terry Chen

When to Sunset a Product: A Decision Framework for Entrepreneurs

A framework for deciding when to sunset products and projects. Understanding opportunity costs, sunk cost fallacy, and making difficult decisions about failing ventures. Essential guidance for startup founders and product managers.

July 12, 2025 • 📖 6 min read • Terry Chen