50 product management blogs and publications product managers love to read
Tempo Team
Key Takeaways
The 50 blogs in this list span nine categories so readers can pick by the part of the job they're trying to improve today.
Reforge, Silicon Valley Product Group, Teresa Torres' Product Talk, and Melissa Perri are the strongest starting points for depth over headlines.
Live communities like Product Manager HQ and Product Hive complement blog reading because other practitioners push back on your reasoning in real time, which a one-way blog post cannot do.
Product management blogs are where the field's working practitioners think in public.
The blogs worth returning to are maintained by people still doing the job – PMs and the operators who manage them – writing about specific calls they had to make. That's the format a bootcamp or summary thread can't replicate, because the reasoning on a real decision is the content.
For a working PM, the value of a list like this one – each grouped by where the author is strongest – is getting to a short set of active voices without opening fifty browser tabs.
The classics
1. Pragmatic Institute
Pragmatic Institute (formerly Pragmatic Marketing) is one of the most established hubs for PM training and resources. They publish across five different blogs, and the broader site includes infographics, webinars, and a print magazine. If you're early in your PM career, start here.
Read this first: A product manager's worst nightmare | All resources
2. Mind the Product
Mind the Product hosts meetups, a well-regarded conference, and one of the most consistently strong PM blogs anywhere. The writing comes from practitioners at all levels. If you only read one classic PM site, make it this one.
Read this first: The history and evolution of product management
3. 280 Group
280 Group covers product strategy and strategy frameworks in depth. They've been producing PM content longer than most of their competitors – as a training and consulting firm, they had a head start. Solid for both newcomers and experienced PMs who want a structured approach.
Read this first: Coping with product manager burnout
4. Reforge
Reforge is best known as a growth program for senior product managers learning from operators at high-growth companies. The blog is just as good. Sign up for the newsletter so you don't miss anything.
Read this first: Great product management is 60% substance and 40% style
5. Silicon Valley Product Group
SVPG is Marty Cagan's home base. His former roles span eBay, AOL, Netscape, and HP. The writing is personal and direct – advice from someone who's actually done the work, not theorized about it.
Read this first: Product success
The communities
6. Product Manager HQ
PMHQ is one of the largest Slack communities for product people. The site publishes solid articles on career development, and they regularly host AMAs with experienced PMs. If you want a community alongside the reading, start here.
Read this first: 19 lessons I learned during my first year as a product manager
7. Product Hive
Product Hive started in Utah but its community is open to PMs anywhere. The Slack group is active without becoming overwhelming, and conversations stay on-topic. They also publish articles on Medium that are worth your time.
Read this first: Product roadmaps: An anti-pattern to agile?
As of 2026, much of Product Hive's activity has moved into a private Slack community and local meetups; the public publication is mostly archived.
8. Product Coalition
Product Coalition is one of Medium's largest product hubs, curated by Jay Stansell. If you want a single entry point to the best PM writing on Medium, this is it.
Read this first: The four villains of product management
The companies
9. First Round Review
First Round Review publishes long-form interviews with product managers at companies like Airbnb, Reddit, and Uber. The depth here is unusual. These aren't summaries – they're operational insights from PMs who've shipped at scale.
10. Inside Intercom
Intercom's blog takes positions instead of just reporting. They have smart people with points of view, and the writing is opinionated in a way that's actually useful for real decisions. One of the best company blogs in the PM space, full stop.
Read this first: The first rule of prioritization: No snacking
11. Figma Blog
The Figma blog has become a go-to for design systems, collaboration workflows, and practical product thinking. Clean writing, actionable examples. Worth following even if you're not a designer.
Read this first: Figma's guide to design systems
In 2026 the Figma Blog leans heavily on AI tooling and developer-designer handoff topics rather than general product strategy. Still useful, but the focus has narrowed.
12. The Department of Product
Richard Holmes and Jason Leonard run The Department of Product, a UK-based publication that covers the bridge between product, engineering, and ops. The newsletter and accompanying podcast lean toward the unglamorous parts of the job – internal tooling, planning rituals, escalation paths.
Read this first: How to build better internal tools
The influencers
13. Ken Norton
Ken Norton, formerly of Google Ventures, is one of the more original thinkers in product. His essays are encouraging without being generic.
Read this first: Meetings that don't suck
14. Nir and Far
Nir Eyal wrote Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, which proposed the four-step model for building habit-forming products. His blog digs into user behavior and psychology. If you care about engagement and retention, it's required reading.
Read this first: Hooked for good: How habit-forming products improve lives
15. Andrew Chen
Andrew Chen is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. He publishes essays on his Substack and has written over 700 pieces spanning growth, networks, and product strategy. The archive alone is worth several hours.
Read this first: Every marketing channel sucks right now
Now publishing at andrewchen.com – the site has shifted to a newsletter-first format with Substack delivery, but the archive and recent essays both live here.
16. Learning by Shipping
Steven Sinofsky, Andreessen Horowitz board partner, publishes on Medium. He covers technology, productivity, and the business side of product. His posts run longer and denser than most – worth the read.
Read this first: Disruption's long, slow, complex journey
Also worth reading: My tablet has stickers
17. Josh Elman
Josh Elman has worked in product at Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. He's now a partner at Greylock Partners and blogs on Medium.
Read this first: The five types of virality
18. Ben Horowitz
Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager is one of the most-read pieces in the PM canon. Horowitz doesn't publish frequently anymore, but the archive is deep.
Read this first: High Output Management
Note: “Good PM/Bad PM” is a 1990s internal Netscape memo Ben wrote as a VP, not a blog post. Ben no longer writes about PM craft – he runs Andreessen Horowitz. The memo is still worth reading; just don't expect new material from him on this topic.
19. Jason Fried
Basecamp founder Jason Fried writes on Medium and Signal v. Noise. His thinking is contrarian and worth reading precisely because it challenges assumptions most PMs take for granted.
Read this first: I've never had a goal
20. Ryan Hoover
Product Hunt founder Ryan Hoover blogs on Medium. Fun, light, and useful for spotting product trends early.
Read this first: A dangerous new game called camera rollette
21. David Cancel
Five-time founder David Cancel is best known for co-founding Drift. His blog focuses on building customer-driven products and shares lessons from scaling multiple companies.
Read this first: Creating a customer-driven product machine
The educators
22. Roman Pichler
Roman Pichler is one of the most reliable product educators working today. His posts are detailed, grounded in practice, and particularly useful for PMs who want leadership guidance alongside tactical advice.
Read this first: How to scale the scrum product owner
23. Product Talk
Teresa Torres is one of the sharpest product thinkers writing today. Her articles are long, detailed, and rooted in real practice. If you want someone you can trust to explain difficult concepts clearly, Torres is it.
24. Lenny's Newsletter
Lenny Rachitsky, formerly at Airbnb, runs what's now the most-cited PM publication going at lennysnewsletter.com. Lenny interviews the people who built Notion, Figma, and Uber, and gets them to share the actual templates, scoring sheets, and decision logic they used. Most issues are still useful a year later because the source material is the operators rather than the commentary.
Read this first: The most important PM templates
25. Tomasz Tunguz
Tomasz Tunguz is a venture capitalist at Redpoint who writes bite-sized insights on product, startups, customer success, data, and strategy. Short posts. High signal.
Read this first: What is the structure of the typical SaaS company as it scales?
26. Rich Mironov
Rich Mironov's product management blog has been running since 2002 – one of the longest-running in the field. His older posts on recruiting beta customers and the role of the "secret shopper" still hold up.
27. Melissa Perri
Melissa Perri writes long, in-depth posts on some of the most persistent product management challenges. Her work on the Build Trap – the pattern of shipping features without solving real problems – is required reading.
Read this first: Prioritization shouldn't be hard
28. Shreyas Doshi
Shreyas Doshi – ex-Stripe, Twitter, Google – writes Building for the senior PM trying to navigate a complex org without losing the plot. His work focuses on product sense, career strategy, and the high-level heuristics most PM training programs skip. If Lenny answers “how,” Shreyas answers “why.”
Read this first: The three types of product work
29. Latent Space
swyx and Alessio's Latent Space covers the AI builder beat – evaluation frameworks, eval harnesses, prompt engineering as a discipline, and the practitioners actually shipping AI products. Useful for any PM whose roadmap now has “add LLM” penciled in next to a deadline.
Read this first: The AI engineer's reading list
30. Adam Nash's Psychohistory
Adam Nash's career includes Dropbox, Wealthfront, LinkedIn, eBay, and Apple. His blog sits at the intersection of technology, economics, and human behavior.
Read this first: Guide to product planning: Three feature buckets
Read this first: Guide to product planning: Three feature buckets
Best of Medium
31. Brandon Chu
Brandon Chu writes frank, personal posts based on his time at Shopify and Freshbooks. The anecdotes are the kind of thing you won't find in a PM textbook.
Read this first: A bad product decision
32. Ellen Chisa
Ellen Chisa writes with precision about the harder parts of working in product and tech – career frustration, gender diversity, and the unglamorous realities of the job.
Read this first: Networking for introverts
33. Lulu Cheng
Lulu Cheng documented her pivot from marketing into product management at Pinterest. Her writing on the "How technical does a PM need to be?" question is the best treatment of that topic we've found.
Read this first: Getting to "technical enough" as a product manager
34. Bo Ren
Bo Ren uses Medium to chart her personal journey in product management, with a focus on diversity and the broader culture of the field. Essays and critiques, not how-to guides – and better for it.
Read this first: Confessions of a PM: 7 ways to disarm the impostor syndrome
Also worth reading: From liberal arts to product management
35. Matt LeMay
Matt LeMay writes about how it feels to work in product, not just how to do it. He also updated the overused product management Venn diagram, which earned him permanent respect in this office.
Read this first: Against self-deprecation
36. Jess Ratcliffe
Each week, Jess Ratcliffe interviews a woman working in product and publishes the conversation on Medium. A good way to meet practitioners you'd otherwise never encounter.
Read this first: Coffee with Merci Grace
37. John Cutler
John Cutler is a prolific Medium contributor with a talent for fast, insight-dense posts. Good for quick doses of practical thinking.
Read this first: How to tame engineers, be a rockstar, and ship product
Also worth reading: 10 things I learned by doodling for 100 days straight
Now publishing at The Beautiful Mess on Substack. Same voice, longer posts, less Medium boilerplate.
Design and UX
38. Julie Zhuo
Former Meta VP of Design Julie Zhuo is one of the most-read product voices on Medium. Her writing on design principles and leadership is sharp, specific, and hard to find anywhere else.
Read this first: Design, illustrated in 3 charts
Also worth reading: Data Stories' analysis of the product management landscape on Medium
Now publishing at The Looking Glass on Substack, where Julie writes about leadership, the design-engineering relationship, and the parts of management you don't learn until you're doing them.
39. Users Know
Laura Klein's mission is helping startups get UX right. Her book UX for Lean Startups is a practical guide to connecting with users. Her blog applies the same thinking to real questions product teams face.
Read this first: The right deliverables
40. Marily Nika's AI Product Playbook
Dr. Marily Nika, formerly at Google and Meta, runs AI Product Playbook, which has become the educator most PMs are reading when they get reassigned to an AI team.
Her writing covers model latency, data labeling, evaluation, and the UX problems that come from non-deterministic outputs – the parts of AI most product writing avoids because they're hard to summarize.
Read this first: How to build AI product sense
41. Cindy Alvarez
Cindy Alvarez writes on user experience, customer development, and product design. She also covers workplace culture, including the parts people usually avoid talking about.
Read this first: 5 ways to ensure usability testing results aren't ignored
For startups
42. Hunter Walk
Hunter Walk is a partner at Homebrew. His blog mixes tech criticism with PM knowledge-sharing and interviews with experienced practitioners. Good for startup-stage product thinking.
Read this first: Google finds that successful teams are about norms not just smarts
43. Steve Blank
Steve Blank wrote The Four Steps to the Epiphany in 2005, laying the groundwork for modern customer development methodology. His blog continues that work – customer-driven entrepreneurship, product-market fit, and taking on larger incumbents.
Read this first: The mission model canvas – an adapted business model canvas for mission-driven organizations
Read this first: The mission model canvas – an adapted business model canvas for mission-driven organizations
44. Startup Lessons Learned
Eric Ries' ongoing blog tied to The Lean Startup. If you work in product at a startup and haven't read that book, read it before anything else. Then come here.
Read this first: How lean startup helped serve communities in Kenya
Read this first: How lean startup helped serve communities in Kenya
45. Benedict Evans
Andreessen Horowitz partner Benedict Evans writes about major tech trends and how they affect the startup and business world. Less tactical, more strategic. Good for understanding where things are heading.
Read this first: Mobile, ecosystems and the death of PCs
Read this first: Mobile, ecosystems and the death of PCs
Miscellaneous but not least
46. Sachin Rekhi
Sachin Rekhi writes essays from over a decade of PM experience in Silicon Valley. He also delivers them via a weekly newsletter. Knowledge-sharing without self-promotion.
Read this first: Product management career ladders at 8 top technology firms
47. The Product Guy
Jeremy Horn has been running The Product Guy since 2007. His work on the jobs-to-be-done framework and his annual Best Product Person competition make it a useful ongoing resource.
Read this first: Becoming a truly customer-centric product manager with the "jobs to be done" framework
Read this first: Becoming a truly customer-centric product manager with the "jobs to be done" framework
48. Aakash Gupta
Aakash Gupta's Product Growth sits at the intersection of product strategy and aggressive growth. His company-history deep dives – “How Epic Games wins,” “How Notion scaled” – break down what actually drove growth at companies people now write business-school cases about, with enough specificity that a reader can borrow the moves.
Read this first: 16 years of product strategy in 50 minutes
49. Pawel Huryn
Pawel Huryn writes The Product Compass, which has the most save-this-image tactical PM content on the web. Posts are heavy on diagrams, frameworks, and checklists – the kind a working PM would actually pull up in a meeting rather than skim and forget.
Read this first: The ultimate list of product metrics
50. Elena Verna
Elena Verna – Miro, Amplitude, Dropbox – writes Growth Scoop, the definitive voice on product-led growth. In 2026 her writing is mostly about how AI-native companies are rewriting the growth playbook: Minimum lovable products instead of MVPs, usage-driven pricing, and the changed shape of acquisition when the product itself sells.
Read this first: The new AI growth playbook
Classics – foundational reading worth keeping in your archives
These eight publications were on the original version of this list and shaped how a generation of PMs learned the craft. Most are no longer updated, but the archives are still worth a tab when you're researching a specific topic. Treat them like the Stoics: useful when you need them, not a daily habit.
Fresh Tilled Soil
The agency that ran this blog rebranded; the original PM/UX content is largely offline. Worth a Wayback Machine visit if you remember a specific post about onboarding or first-run UX. (No longer updated.)
Folding Burritos
Daniel Zacarias's deep dive on the Kano Model is still the cleanest explanation of customer satisfaction prioritization on the web. Site stopped updating around 2019, but the Kano post alone earns it a place on this list. (No longer updated.)
Shardul Mehta's Street Smart Product Manager
A snapshot of how PMs talked about influence and impact pre-Lenny. Mostly dormant now, with a single 2025 post breaking years of silence. Skim the older roadmap and stakeholder posts. (No longer updated.)
How to Be a Good Product Manager
Jeff Lash stopped regular updates around 2021. The archive is one of the better legacy collections of “basics” posts for someone moving into the role. (No longer updated.)
UserOnboard
Samuel Hulick's onboarding teardowns set the template for how PMs talk about first-run experiences. Site no longer adds new teardowns, but the archive of ~60 is still the canonical reference. (No longer updated.)
Product Management Meets Pop Culture
Cadence wound down in early 2024. Fun cultural artifact of the 2010s PM blogosphere – a few of the older posts (Pokémon Go, Hamilton) still hold up as case studies. (No longer updated.)
The Art of Product Management
Jackie Bavaro's Quora-hosted blog is effectively dormant; her writing energy is in her books (Cracking the PM Career, Cracking the PM Interview). Read those instead. (No longer updated.)
The Clever PM
Cliff Gilley moved into research director roles and stopped publishing regularly. The archive has a strong run of 2015-2018 posts on prioritization and stakeholder management. (No longer updated.)
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