Articles
Articles
Essays and posts that have shaped how good PMs think. Bookmark-worthy, not disposable.
Lenny's Newsletter
Lenny Rachitsky
The most consistently useful PM newsletter on the internet. Deep dives, benchmarks, tactical playbooks.
Product strategyPLGProduct analyticslennysnewsletter.comThe Beautiful Mess
John Cutler
The most honest writing about how product orgs really work. Screenshot-worthy diagrams in every post.
Product operationsFrameworksProduct strategycutlefish.substack.comSVPG Articles
Marty Cagan & Silicon Valley Product Group
Two decades of writing on what great product teams do differently. Start with 'The Root Causes of Product Failure'.
Product strategyFrameworkssvpg.comReforge blog
Reforge
The go-to reference for growth, retention, and monetisation frameworks. Deeper than most 'growth' content.
PLGProduct analyticsProduct marketingreforge.comFirst Round Review
First Round Capital
Long-form operator interviews. If you only read one review, read anything by Shreyas Doshi they've published.
Startups / scale-upsProduct strategyProduct marketingreview.firstround.comProduct Growth
Aakash Gupta
Practical, weekly, opinionated. Excellent on AI PM interviews, growth loops, and career moves.
AI productsPLGProduct strategynews.aakashg.comShreyas Doshi essays & threads
Shreyas Doshi
The clearest thinker on judgement, PM levels, and 'craft'. Short, sharp, quote-in-a-doc worthy.
FrameworksProduct strategyshreyasdoshi.comYour AI product needs evals
Hamel Husain
The most linked-to piece on why 'vibes-based' AI development doesn't scale and how to build evals that do.
EvalsAI productshamel.devSimon Willison's Weblog
Simon Willison
The AI-native PM's daily reader. Ships-and-writes about LLM tooling faster and clearer than anyone.
AI productsEvalssimonwillison.netAnthropic — Building effective agents
Anthropic
Design patterns for LLM agents from a lab that actually ships. Required reading for AI product work.
AI productsFrameworksanthropic.comThe Looking Glass
Julie Zhuo
Design leadership from Facebook's former VP of Design. Product PMs and design partners both learn here.
Product designProduct in big techlg.substack.com