Product

The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Less

This book is currently my favorite book when it comes to buidling busiensses and startups. It's pragmatic and gives actionable advice, especially for bootstrapped founders. I don't believe in growth at all costs. I believe in building businesses that solve real problems for real communities, sustainably. Sahil Lavingia’s framework is my go-to guide for keeping things lean, profitable, and focused on what actually matters: the customer.

Lenny's Podcast

I've learned so much from this podcast

4 Common Mistakes that junior Product Managers (including myself) make

### 1. Not Saying No Enough This isn't just saying no to meetings; it is saying no to stakeholders' requests, timelines, or customer feature requests. This can be hard, especially if you want to please everyone but its critical in order to prioritize the product vision and strategy. ### 2. Starting with solutions instead of problems Another common mistake is to become too feature-focused. For example, wanting to incorporate AI into the product and directly focusing on getting buy-in without clearly defining the problem and why AI would solve it. ### 3. Relying Solely on Data Data is essential for making decisions but is not the only factor. Junior PMs must move from data-driven to data-informed decisions, which factor in market trends, business objectives, intuition, and context. ### 4. Choosing complex solutions over simpler ones It may be tempting to create complex solutions to problems so that you can incorporate a specific technology. This can result in longer development time and increased costs. Keep it simple and lean.

January 14, 2026

Claude Code + Cursor

This has been my personal tech stack when developing new projects.

January 8, 2026

FAQ: Do I need to know how to code to be a Product Manager?

No, unless you want to work on platform or developer-focused products like an API, SDK, etc. **Why?** Because, as a PM, you should be able to use your product. You need to be able to understand how it works, its limitations, and its experience. So, if you don't know how to code, you won't be able to use your APIs, SDKs, etc Do I recommend you learn how to code? Yea, it certainly helps. But you will more than likely not contribute to production code. **Do you know what every PM should know?** System Design, you will spend most of your time on this level and will be communicating with your engineers and other technical stakeholders on this.

January 2, 2026

Talk to Users

You know what hasn't changed in the product-building process, even with AI? Talking to your potential users or customers. Having a prototype to show helps, but that shouldn't be a requirement to talk to users. You'll be surprised by how many assumptions you had get blown up in a 5-minute conversation.

December 31, 2025