Substacks recommended by Mike Goitein | Product Strategy Decoded

Recommended by Mike Goitein

Weekly essays about bookstores, libraries, and publishing newsletters on Substack. Also the deeply concerning amount of time I spend thinking about why one memoir book sells 12 copies while another becomes a cultural event.

A great writer who shares key mindsets, mental models & strategies for succeeding on Substack.

- Mike Goitein

Jorge Alcantara

Building PM tools after a decade of implementing AI globally (Microsoft, Samsung, 200+ others). Sharing honest insights about product development in the AI era. SF & Madrid based. Always exploring how to help teams build better things, faster!

Category Pirates

The authority on category design & category creation. Sharing how legendary entrepreneurs, executives, marketers, and creators design business breakthroughs. By Christopher Lochhead and Eddie Yoon

Understand how to create and dominate a category! Writing at it's strategic best!

- Mike Goitein

Lenny's Newsletter

By Lenny Rachitsky

Deeply researched product, growth, and career advice for product leaders, founders, and ambitious builders.

Operating by John Brewton

Weekly Reporting on the History & Future of Operating Companies

Product Growth

By Aakash Gupta

Deep dives into succeeding as a PM, product leadership, and how to get your next PM job.

Thrive by Sean Kernan

Human stories and research to help you live better and be happier. This Substack is a source of community and top notch content.

Cash & Cache

By Raghav Mehra

Where strategy meets execution — exploring how AI is transforming businesses, markets, and value.

Design + AI

By Felix Haas

The go-to resource for building products in the age of AI.

Balancing Act

By Nikunj Kothari

Candid thoughts about investing, operating and life.

Millennial Masters

By Daniel Ionescu

Business, growth, and AI. The newsletter and podcast for founders and leaders.

Daniel is an accomplished author whose work has been featured in some of the world's greatest publications. Hist take on technology and startups is top-notch, and he has a love for great ideas. Enjoy!

- Mike Goitein

The Link Tank™️

By Melanie Goodman

A warm welcome. The LinkedIn strategies I use to build authority, grow a newsletter & convert connections into paying clients. Every week, get practical, evidence-led LinkedIn tactics and know-how to credibly grow your LinkedIn presence.

Productivi-Tree Newsletter

By Santiago Tacoronte

Productivity tools, ideas, resources, and frameworks to help knowledge workers and teams work smarter.

Software Design: Tidy First?

By Kent Beck

Software design is an exercise in human relationships. So are all the other techniques we use to develop software. How can we geeks get better at technique as one way of getting better at relationships?

Productlab Newsletter

By Daniele Ronca

Community wisdom event to navigate the tech shift, connect with peers, and share actionable insights.

The Work That Holds

By Benjamin Antoine

Keep the job. Grow the Business. Own your future.

Innovative Technology

By Richard

Richard was born and educated in the United Kingdom. He wrote his first computer program at College in 1968 on paper tape. Since then, he has had an international career in IT consulting management, working for IBM, Accenture Inc. in the United States.

Modern Freedom

By Tim Denning

I will help you reach modern freedom so you can experience true financial wealth, more time with family, less stress, and more free time.

The Rumelt Perspectives

By Richard Rumelt

Essays on strategy. From diagnosis, to the search for the Crux, to the focused application of strength.

Rich Mironov's Product Bytes

By rich mironov

Strategic product thinking for scrappy companies of all sizes

Rich has a distinctly pragmatic take on the art and business of product management in the real world.

- Mike Goitein

Platforms, AI, and the Economics of BigTech

By Sangeet Paul Choudary

Your guide to strategy and policy in the age of platform ecosystems, BigTech dominance, and AI.

The Skip

By Nikhyl Singhal (The Skip)

Career advice for tech professionals

FAANG FIRE

By Andre Nader

I help tech workers reach Financial Independence. I write about going from FAANG to FIRE, investing, personal finance, financial independence, avocados, and helping others reach FIRE. After a decade at Meta I am now semi-🔥.

Product Coalition

By Jay Stansell

A higher level, approachable, weekly insights series about staying curious in product and driving career growth, funded by member support

Matt Paige

Helping the 98% of non-developers build with AI. Host of the Talking AI Podcast.

Now What? Hosted by JR

By Janet Ridsdale

A weekly space to pause, breathe, and choose to be human. Now What? is where we ask the big questions about staying human in the age of AI. I explore faith, hope, and connection—the things that ground us. Join the conversation.

Startup Riders

By Ivan Landabaso

How top 1% startups grow.

Slow AI

By Dr Sam Illingworth

Knowing when to use AI and when to leave it the hell alone.

Miqdad Jaffer

Product Lead @ OpenAI | EIR @ Product Faculty

Maarten’s Newsletter

By Maarten Dalmijn

11K readers escape the noise of Product Management with a weekly dose of clarity by Maarten Dalmijn

Maarten is wise, funny, and compassionate, looking for ways to make software teams' lives better through Product Management

- Mike Goitein

The Digital Creator

By Sharyph

Accelerating Creators with AI Agents. I show how to use AI to start, create, grow, and scale faster.

22nd Century Frontier™

By Petar Dimov

Building or Investing in the Future? This Newsletter Is Your Edge

Business intelligence from the UK & global startup frontlines.

- Mike Goitein

The Beautiful Mess

By John Cutler

The beautiful mess of cross-functional product development

The brilliant and prolific product musings of the incomparable John Cutler

- Mike Goitein

Untrapping Product Teams

By David Pereira

A newsletter about hope for product people. Hope that no matter how complex your situation is, you can simplify it. Simple tips, outstanding progress. Join us if you care about making real impact.

David shares Product leadership insights to get software teams out of the Build Trap

- Mike Goitein

Grow With AI 📈

By Aniket Chhetri

AI playbooks for growing your audience and income without wasting hours or burning out.

Dollar Commerce

By Andrew Watson

An open floor to all things e-commerce 🚀

Drea Says Product Things

By andrea saez

Occasional rants about product things. Let's demystify things together!

Unique & insightful perspectives on Product

- Mike Goitein

Landon’s Letters

By Landon Poburan

A quiet rebellion against hustle culture. Learn slow, simple, and sovereign growth strategies for creators building on their own terms.

Shreyas Free Newsletter

By Shreyas Doshi

Candid, unique short-form essays and media by Shreyas, super-useful for some, transformative for a few - get my private product leadership seminar recording (75 min) when you subscribe.

Product with Attitude

By Karo

AI Product Manager helping you protect human agency. Tools to showcase your creative work. A community of 18K+ readers building critical AI literacy through practice. Use AI with attitude to strengthen the branch you’re sitting on, not cut it off.

The Looking Glass

By Julie Zhuo

Essays on the endless journey of building products, teams, and ourselves.

Global Data Center Hub

Global Data Center Hub covers where capital, power, and compute converge — intelligence on global data center transactions, from hyperscale deals to emerging market buildouts, for the investors and operators building the infrastructure behind AI.

All our platforms rely on data centers. Global Data Center Hub keeps you up to date on how the world is ramping up to meet the demand.

- Mike Goitein

Strategic Seeing Club

By Svyatoslav (S.B.) Biryulin

Helping CEOs design adaptable strategies that actually work in daily reality, not just on paper. | The author of The Customer-Axis Framework | Strategist, Consultant, Advisor, and Board member

Resilience Blueprint

By Grant Chiasson

Resilience blueprint is here to create the framework for you to become incredible.

Unplugged by Yana G.Y.

[FREE Masterclass + FREE 10-Day Email Crash Course] The exact model I used to build a $5k-$10k/mo newsletter with AI & Automations working 2 hours/day: Courses, Strategies, Tactics, AI Tools, Challenges & 1:1 HELP to grow, convert & scale revenues.

Yana's guidance for Substack writers is unparalleled

- Mike Goitein

The Lateral Lens

By Charles Lambdin

Lateral thoughts on project management, product design, and business strategy

AI blew my mind

By Daria

Turn your decades of experience into AI systems that work 24/7 so you don’t have to. Every week, I help you rethink how you operate and build workflows that run for you. (So good, readers say they cancel their day when a new issue drops.)

Build to Thrive

By Juan Salas-Romer

Build to Thrive is a newsletter for business operators and professionals who want to turn their experience, ideas, and operations into AI-powered assets that create more time, revenue and profit.

Experienced startup founder, investor, and coach plugging you into AI from a vantage point few other people have.

- Mike Goitein

Solopreneur Launch

By Michael

I help solopreneurs add $2-4k to their one-person business through my Launch Operating System™ | Signed Book Author | Generated over $1m client sales | 92,000+ Followers on Medium.com

The Founders Corner®

By Ruben Dominguez

Your weekly BOOST to Raise and Grow Like A Pro. Tips and Techniques used by prolific Founders.

Chris Tottman and Ruben Dominguez Ibar do a phenomenal job digging into startup success.

- Mike Goitein