10 product management newsletters worthy of your inbox
Tempo Team
Key Takeaways
Product managers look to newsletters as an educational resource – a feed of practitioner-written expertise delivered to your inbox. These are the ones worth subscribing to.
Newsletters by practicing PMs carry specifics – headcount numbers and actual customer quotes – that aggregator digests cannot source.
Long-read and quick-scan formats answer different questions, so pairing one of each covers strategy depth and weekly industry signal.
Newsletters are a top source of professional development for product managers – cutting through the noise of algorithms to deliver curated, practitioner-written insights directly to your inbox.
A handful of PMs have built durable newsletter readerships because every issue answers a question a senior PM is actively sitting with – and the writing holds up over time.
The best product management newsletters are where working PMs think out loud about the decisions they can't put in a conference talk. Newsletters can bring you closer to the real job than polished case studies.
Signal-to-noise varies widely by author – many just recycle LinkedIn posts under new subject lines, or pay a ghost writer who's never shipped a feature. We've picked 10 valuable PM newsletters that have stood the test of time.
1. Productify by Shreyas Doshi
Shreyas Doshi was a PM at Stripe, Twitter, Google, and Yahoo before going independent. His Substack draws on that depth – how senior PMs think, the traps that derail product orgs, the gap between what gets measured and what matters.
He's unusually direct about the structural problems that make product work harder than it needs to be. Not just frameworks. The organizational dynamics behind them.
2. Weekly Thoughts by Tim Herbig
Tim Herbig is a Hamburg-based product manager who covers a wide range: Getting started as a PM, how to run better 30-minute meetings, tool reviews, process opinions. His newsletter mixes original posts with commentary on whatever caught his eye that week.
Sign up for Tim Herbig's Weekly Thoughts
3. Lenny Rachitsky's newsletter
What started as a side project for former Airbnb PM Lenny Rachitsky has grown to over a million subscribers. Each week (monthly on the free plan), you get a deep dive into a PM topic drawn from reader questions – growth, working with people, whatever is stressing PMs out right now. The reader-driven approach is most of why it works.
Good starting points from the archive:
Sign up for Lenny Rachitsky's newsletter
4. Go Practice! by Oleg Yakubenkov
Oleg describes himself as a "data guy," and it shows. His newsletter delivers in-depth essays on how experienced PMs actually think about data and growth challenges – in practice, not theory. He also built a hands-on PM simulator using mock Amplitude dashboards and real data sets. The newsletter is the best way in.
Sign up for Go Practice!
5. Elezea by Rian van der Merwe
Rian van der Merwe's newsletter curates resources and commentary on building better products and thinking more critically about how technology shapes work and life. When active, he published every Wednesday – PM advice, future-of-work topics, and tech news that matters for product teams.
The newsletter's been on hiatus. Check elezea.com for current status. The archive is worth browsing or just read the blog.
6. High-Impact Product Management by Itamar Gilad
Itamar Gilad is an ex-Google PM who's been writing about product strategy for years. His approach to GIST planning – laid out in this Medium article – gets passed around product teams constantly. The monthly newsletter draws on 20+ years at YouTube, Microsoft, and similar companies. Especially strong on planning frameworks.
Sign up for High-impact product management
7. Reforge newsletter
Brian Balfour's Reforge publishes long-form essays on product growth, retention, and strategy. The writing is more rigorous than the average blog post – closer to case studies than hot takes. Contributors include PMs from Drift, Slack, Credit Karma, and others. Worth starting with:
Sign up for the Reforge newsletter
8. Mountain Goat Software newsletter by Mike Cohn
If you care about agile and scrum, this is it. Mike Cohn tackles questions that come up constantly in practice: Should a team work on more than one project in a sprint? When is agile a bad idea? What's the right way to pay off technical debt? Especially useful for product owners and anyone tracking how agile practices are evolving.
Sign up for Mountain Goat Software newsletter
9. Tech Brew by Morning Brew
For the automation and AI crowd. Tech Brew covers drones, automation, AI, and emerging tech in Morning Brew's accessible, lightly irreverent house style. The focus is how these technologies will actually affect business and the way we work.
Check out the latest issue here.
Sign up for Tech Brew
10. Benedict's Newsletter by Benedict Evans
Benedict Evans, former partner at Andreessen Horowitz, sends a weekly collection of tech news with his own commentary. His perspective is more macro than most PM newsletters – AI ethics, big tech dynamics, mobile trends, where the industry is heading. His standalone essays (like Ways to Predict Tech) are worth reading on their own. The newsletter is how most people find them.
Browse the archive (premium) here.
Sign up for Benedict Evans' weekly newsletter
Notable mentions
Product management sits at the intersection of business, design, and development. It helps to read outside the PM bubble. Here are newsletters our team also follows:
Seedtable – A weekly newsletter on European tech, covering startups, funding rounds, and market trends
Andreessen Horowitz – Covers what's next in tech, business, and VC from the firm's partners
SaaStr – A weekly blog digest on culture, customer success, and growth
Ben Thompson's Stratechery (Paid) – Tech and business news plus analysis of what those stories mean for society
Sari Azout's Check Your Pulse – Tech trends and leadership with a human voice that is hard to find in this space (sign up)
TLDR – Bite-sized tech news for people who want the key points (sign up)
Bringing the Donuts – Ken Norton shares product leadership lessons and PM job posts (sign up)
Product Talk – Teresa Torres focuses on continuous discovery and evidence-based product decisions (sign up)
How to manage your newsletter inbox
Don't subscribe to all of these. Pick two or three, try them for a month, and drop the ones you're not opening.
One newsletter for deep dives, one for quick reads. That covers most of what you need. If your work spans go-to-market and UX, add a product design or product marketing newsletter too. Whitelist every newsletter you subscribe to so it doesn't land in your promotions folder.
And block out 20 minutes a week to actually read them. If you haven't opened one in three weeks, unsubscribe.
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