Julie Zhuo's paid essay reflects on the path into founding a company, framing it as a hero's journey shaped by conviction. Based on the excerpt provided, the piece looks back on the starting point and suggests founders…
“Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts What happens when a product leader accidentally becomes an AI engineer? In this episode, Teresa Torres shares how she went from occasional tinkerer to spending 60% of her time doing real engineering work — building AI-powered tools for continuous discovery, forming a”
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille argue that a giant, messy product backlog is a symptom of unclear filtering rather than a ranking problem. They question whether scoring frameworks like ICE and RICE help when hundreds of…
Jason Fried argues that hiring, especially for executive roles, is ultimately a gut decision driven by judgment. Although hiring processes try to add scientific rigor, the essential qualities being evaluated, experience…
Marty Cagan introduces four thought leaders whose blogs he finds valuable for product people, many of whom were relatively new voices in 2010. He profiles Ben Horowitz, Eric Ries, Steve Blank, and Fred Wilson…
Lenny Rachitsky reviews more than 140 of his angel investments, sharing seven surprises, a practical path into angel investing, and his startup evaluation criteria. His core argument is that access to good deals and a…
Teresa Torres argues that product managers constantly communicate complex ideas to engineers, designers, sales, and customers, and that visual thinking is one of the most effective ways to do it quickly and accurately…
Jason Fried responds to a young entrepreneur in his mid-20s who sold a business and now holds a couple million dollars in liquid cash, asking whether to invest it, start a new company, or do something else. Fried's…
Marty Cagan responds to recurring questions about whether SVPG promotes a specific branded process such as 'the INSPIRED process' or 'the EMPOWERED process'. He argues that nearly everything involves some process, and…
Marty Cagan argues that green technology is poised to become the next major wave of innovation, much as the Internet touched nearly every business. He points to advances from Xerox PARC in solar concentrator…
This essay explores a common feeling among product people: that they are the only one who thinks a certain way inside their company, even though conferences or outside conversations suggest otherwise. The author argues…
Marty Cagan argues that leadership and management are distinct, both essential competencies that many people wrongly conflate. He draws on an excerpt from Marty Abbott and Michael Fisher's The Art of Scalability to…
Marty Cagan argues that many companies wrongly merge product management with project management, a habit inherited from shipped-software companies like Microsoft. That model breaks down for internet services, where many…
An open, personal letter from a manager to a younger, overconfident college graduate she once worked with. The author reflects on how the young person's arrogance was hard to see past at the time, and frames the piece…
Teresa Torres describes building AI-generated opportunity solution trees for Vistaly as a product manager stepping into engineering with AI assistance. The core difficulty was updating an existing tree with new…
Teresa Torres argues that product people routinely make poor estimates because they produce single-point predictions for uncertain outcomes like build time or conversion rates. Drawing on research summarized in the…
Teresa Torres describes her daily workflow of pair-working with Claude Code over the past five months, from task pulling and research digests to drafting articles and producing podcasts. She argues the productivity…
The essay opens with an anecdote about a journalist's first impressions of a notable figure, using it as a jumping-off point to ask what humans should use their minds for as AI takes on more cognitive work. It frames…
This essay extends an earlier sports-management analogy about actively managing a team's skills and composition, now using gardening instead. It argues that managers cannot simply hire people and wait for results; they…
The article introduces a two-way feedback model that the author credits with changing how she coaches people. It argues that one-way "radical candor" style criticism can demotivate, so feedback should give both parties…
A community digest from Lenny Rachitsky's paid newsletter covering a range of product and growth questions: SEO keyword prioritization and the debate over domain authority versus content, PM career ladder resources…