This Moment We're In

As AI lowers the cost of execution, organizations face a new challenge: deciding what deserves to be built in the first place. In this episode of This Moment We’re In , Cindy Chastain talks with Thu Do, a product builder, strategist, designer, founder, and systems thinker whose career has never fit neatly into a single category. Together, they explore what happens when AI begins to blur traditiona...

In this episode of This Moment We’re In , Cindy Chastain talks with design and innovation executive Greg Petroff about what happens when AI stops functioning merely as a productivity tool and starts reshaping how teams think. Drawing from his work with product organizations navigating AI adoption in real time, Greg shares two contrasting stories: one where AI accelerates an existing product develo...

Cindy talks with Christian Crumlish , product leader and author Product Management for UX People , about his journey building a product management assistant called Piper Morgan . What began as a practical experiment quickly exposed something deeper: how systems drift without structure, and why Agentic AI doesn’t work without trust, governance, and human discernment. At its core, this is a story ab...

In the first episode of  This Moment We’re In , host Cindy Chastain sits down with Brandt Flomer to explore a growing—but often overlooked—risk of AI adoption: the erosion of judgment, taste, and learning itself. Drawing from Brandt’s widely read essay  “Craft Is Your Only Moat in the Age of AI,”  the conversation examines why many organizations are shipping faster but thinking less—and how unchec...