All Things Product with Teresa and Petra End of Year Reflection
Dec 16, 2025
This conversation dives into the importance of annual reflection for product professionals. Petra shares her creative approach, influenced by art projects and notebooks, while Teresa highlights a more structured method inspired by Chris Guillebeau. They explore the shift from rigid goal-setting to focusing on values and themes. Exercises like the '100 wishes' challenge illustrate the power of reflection in identifying patterns and letting go of unrealistic expectations. The hosts also discuss maintaining flexibility and balancing public sharing with personal insights.
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Iterate Your Own Reflection Practice
- Do borrow and evolve reflection practices from others to create a custom annual process that fits you.
- Teresa Torres and Petra Wille both iterated theirs over years by cherry-picking useful elements.
Paper Roots And The Dear Data Spark
- Petra Wille started annual reflections with paper calendars, notebooks and an art project inspired by Dear Data.
- She turned that visual, private practice into a public, yearly blog post to hold herself accountable.
Work Diary Became Reflection Habit
- Teresa Torres began listing projects at work after a boss suggested she communicate her workload and priorities.
- That early habit became a recurring review tool for performance conversations and prioritization.
