Writing
Writing is how I figure out what I actually think. I don’t publish on a schedule. I publish when I’ve earned something worth saying about product strategy, building with AI, and how systems fit together.
Published writing
In this notebook
How AI widens what one product builder can do
What changes when one person can research, sketch, and build, all in the same week.
When to build it myself, and when to set direction
Some weeks the work needs my hands. Other weeks it just needs a clear direction.
Using prototypes to learn
Before I build a prototype, I decide what it has to answer. And what it can’t.
What good looks like for an AI product
What useful looks like, where it fails, and the acceptance criteria, all written down before launch.
Also published
More on AI, commerce, and the everyday craft of product. They live on LinkedIn, so these links take you there.
Start here · AI and product
What happens to the product page when the customer isn’t the one doing the clicking. It’s the piece that best captures how I work: bring something real into the room and let the team react to it.
Career
Most career advice gets the order wrong. Here’s why.
Career
The distinction that matters more than whatever your title says.
Commerce
The real failure? It happened three pages earlier.
AI and product
The tool shaped how I think, not just what I make.
New to product · Fifteen free lessons
Fifteen lessons for new product managers, in three parts: the job itself, advanced topics, and interview prep. Each one teaches a method step by step, with worked examples, diagrams, quick questions, and a worksheet you can copy.
What I keep thinking about
Most product writing is hindsight. I try to think out loud earlier.
AI and product judgment
When AI makes building cheap, judgment is what’s scarce. The PMs who thrive won’t be the ones who ship fastest. They’ll spot when an idea isn’t worth a sprint, and say so early.
Prototyping as strategy
Showing beats telling. A cheap proof shifts the conversation, surfaces weak ideas sooner, and earns trust from people who’ve sat through too many decks.
Product taste
Data tells you what happened. Taste helps you decide what to try next, and customers tell you whether you were right. The decisions that matter sit between what the metrics say and what the experience needs.
Execution and vision
The gap between “we should” and “customers use it” is where product work gets quietly measured. Strategy gets sharper once it’s touched something real.
Decision design
The product page, the checkout, the configurator: each is a place where someone’s making up their mind. The best ones are designed around how much a customer has to hold in their head.
Say hello
Tell me where and why. Pushback makes the next piece sharper.
nagesh@nageshkoritala.com
