Nick Stirling, a product leader, writes a series called Off the Roadmap that assesses the business behind existing products, sets out strategic options, and builds clickable prototypes on simulated data. He also writes essays on economic fairness and how businesses could work better for people.
Website: https://www.nickstirling.com/
Ryan Singer, author of Shape Up, writes about how to define, frame and shape software projects before building. Issues combine practical advice, conceptual distinctions and a full end-to-end case study video with transcript.
A newsletter exploring product strategy through the lens of organizations as nested, interacting games, alongside reflections on research practice and framework building. Readers get conceptual models, personal anecdotes from consulting, and thinking about why product strategy fails.
Weekly analyses that dissect failed assumptions in deep tech and early-stage ventures, using case studies such as MakerBot and BASF and frameworks like TRL and product-market fit. Readers get structured post-mortems that pair an assumption with a reality check and practitioner-level lessons.
A product management newsletter that uses real-world cases, from AI infrastructure financing to surveillance tech to TiVo's business model, to draw lessons for product managers. Readers get opinionated essays that tie business and ethics stories to roadmap and product decisions.
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