Hi Reader, Has your software ever frozen for no clear reason? Bugs showing up where you least expect them? A tiny change somehow setting off a chain of other changes nobody planned for? If any of that sounds familiar, my friend, you (well, your product) probably have technical debt. And right now, I am living it. Today in 10 minutes you will: See why it happens, even on great teams Understand why you should care as a PM (with the data to back it up) Know the main types of technical debt Get...
1 day ago • 5 min read
Hi Reader, today is another story from the battlefield. The kind of work that doesn't feel exciting, but the kind that saves you from a disaster. Literally. Do you have a plan for when something goes seriously wrong with your product? A database gets overloaded. An API goes down. A cyberattack hits. A critical integration just... stops working. What do you do? That's what we're talking about today. Today in 10 minutes you will: Understand what disaster recovery actually means for internal PMs...
8 days ago • 4 min read
Hi Reader, Do you love politics or hate it? Or are you just wondering why you have to deal with it at all? You just want to get the work done. Here's the thing: internal product management is infamous for it. But there's a way to play the game without feeling like you're playing it. And the answer starts with how you see it. Today in 10 minutes you will: See what it looks like in internal PM through real scenarios Reframe your mindset so you stop avoiding it Get practical tools to navigate it...
15 days ago • 5 min read
Hi Reader, There is one thing that separates a PM who follows the flow and just builds from the PM who owns the business outcome. It's knowing your Total Cost of Ownership. And having a clear cost recovery strategy. PMs who know what their product costs the business, and actively work to optimize it, are the ones the business will fight to keep. Everyone else is just floating. If you want to be in the first group, this issue is for you. Today in 10 minutes you will: Understand what TCO...
22 days ago • 5 min read
Hi Reader, If you’re an internal PM like me, your work has probably turned out more technical than you expected. Designing systems. Documenting architecture. Thinking through failure points. The hard part? Without a technical background, this can feel like a black box. The good part? One skill changes that: system design. Today we’re going to design Wolt together, step by step. I’ll translate every part into PM language as we go. Today in 10 minutes you will: Understand why system design...
29 days ago • 6 min read
Hi Reader, is AI going to replace our jobs? Do you need a human to do the work that we do as internal product managers? Am I replaceable? I've been asking myself these questions lately. And this newsletter is the thoughts and conclusions I'm drawing... as of right now. If you're asking yourself the same things, this one is for you. Today in 10 minutes you will: Understand why this question hit me personally right now See what AI is already good at (and what it's not), backed by real data...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
Hi Reader, Ever wonder what good product development actually looks like? Ever wondered if you're leading it right? You don't need to reinvent the wheel. There's one framework that quietly runs behind every well-built product → the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). Get this right, and everything else gets easier. Quality. Speed. Planning. Risk. Today in 10 minutes you will: Understand what SDLC is (in plain PM language) See why not knowing it quietly hurts your product Walk through each...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
Hi Reader, Do you also hate bringing up security updates in roadmap reviews? It can't be just me. I don't like it because when I bring it up, the room feels like all the excitement gets sucked out of it. The conversation moves on quickly to the exciting stuff → the new feature, the integration, the thing leadership can demo. And just like that, your security work gets filed under "necessary but boring." It's not that the work isn't important. It's that the framing makes it sound like...
about 2 months ago • 7 min read
Hi Reader, What if you could generate more value from your product without building it all yourself? Design a good API, hand it to another product team, and let them build on top of your product. You get value. They get functionality. Leadership gets results. Interested? Then this one's for you. Today in 10 minutes you will: Learn why APIs should be on every PM's radar Get a quick refresher on API types Walk away with clear guidelines for good API design See how I built and tested an API in...
about 2 months ago • 6 min read
Hi Reader, today we're talking about processes. And most importantly: bad ones. You probably have a few lying around your product. Complicated user access. Messy incident management. Confusing onboarding flows. People struggle. Users struggle. But you just don't know where to start fixing it. If that sounds familiar: this one's for you. Today in 10 minutes you will: Learn a simple framework for improving any broken process See an example: how to fix a chaotic user access flow Get a workshop...
2 months ago • 5 min read