Back in September, I published a list of the best people for product manager\u2019s to follow on Medium to make the most out of their membership, and ultimately improve their product knowledge. If you haven\u2019t read it yet, you can give it a read below.<\/p>\n\n\n
Medium is great, but not infallible. It allows you to access content from hundreds, if not thousands, of writers in the product management space, but not every great writer uses Medium as their platform of choice (sorry, Ev Williams<\/a>!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Therefore, to make the most out of your research and development time, a little more effort is required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019ve picked out my seven favourite writers that post most, or all, of their content away from Medium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you only check out one website from this list, make it this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Silicon Valley Product Group (SVPG) is Marty\u2019s brainchild but also includes content and inspiration from Lea Hickman, Christian Idiodi, Chris Jones, Martina Lauchengcho and Jon Moore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n An absolute must-visit for all aspiring and existing product managers.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Another guy with a seriously impressive r\u00e9sum\u00e9, having led Product Management for several high-profile products at Google including Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Maps and various initiatives at Google Ventures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He is on Medium but hasn\u2019t posted since February 2017. That\u2019s actually only 7 months further back than the last post on his website, but it\u2019s still worth working your way through the repository of his work, as much of it still rings true today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n Despite not having posted on Medium for over three years, Teresa still has almost 2,000 followers on Medium. The real source of information from Teresa, though, is her website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Her content includes coaching, workshops, online classes and articles around the topic of Product Discovery. As an area that continues to be undervalued in the product space, I highly recommend checking out her site and subscribing to her newsletter.<\/p>\n\n\n John is a machine when it comes to producing content. He\u2019s highly active on his blog, LinkedIn and Twitter, and made the decision to move away from Medium at the beginning of 2020 to give himself more control over his content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I see the value in that (after all, I post all my articles on my website first at chrismiles.co<\/a> and backlink my Medium posts to it), but his Substack website isn\u2019t going to win any design awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Still, the quality of the content more than makes up for the lack of \u2018sexy\u2019 UI.<\/p>\n\n\n I wanted \u2018The Product Guy\u2019 as my pseudonym and website, but Jeremy just<\/em><\/strong>beat me to it, by a mere 13 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Damn you, Jeremy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jeremy runs \u2018The Product Group\u2019 MeetUp in New York, which has over 21,000 members and his newsletter has over 6,000 signed up to it, an impressive following on both counts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Well worth a read and a follow, the floating head below knows his stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n Another who hasn\u2019t posted for a while, Daniel\u2019s site focusses on the human side of product management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n His site is worth checking out for the article about 20 product prioritisation techniques<\/a> alone. There were a fair few techniques on this list that I\u2019d never heard of.<\/p>\n\n\n Ravi is the first of two \u2018duplicates\u2019\u200a\u2014\u200awriters that appear on my people to follow on Medium<\/a> list as well as on this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s not a contradiction, I promise. Ravi only posts some of his content on Medium, so you\u2019ll need to check out his website for his more extensive collection of product content.<\/p>\n\n\n\nMarty Cagan<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Ken Norton<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Teresa Torres<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
John Cutler<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Jeremy Horn<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Daniel Zacarias<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Ravi Mehta<\/h3>\n\n\n\n