Essays, product observations, and experiments from a PM thinking out loud.
Essays15 musings
- ProductProduct Management Is Getting Sunsetted↗
- CryptoWhat Uniswap Got Right↗
- ProductRICE Framework in the Age of AI (don't trust it)↗
- FintechThe Economics of Instacart↗
- StrategyMission as Product Strategy↗
- AIApple's AI Strategy↗
- CryptoTokenomics Decoded↗
- CryptoWhen Crypto Becomes Everyone's Problem↗
- FintechThe DoorDash Bet↗
- FintechStripe: Seven Lines of Code↗
- PlatformMeta's $200 Billion Day↗
- StrategyIP Is Lock-In↗
- CryptoWho Gets Access?↗
- ProductIf Product Roadmaps Were Adventure Maps↗
- StrategyProduct Portfolio Decisions↗
- ProductWhat 256 PMs Told Reddit About Pay↗
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About
I'm Dena — a product manager in San Francisco writing about AI, fintech, crypto, and investing.
I build small PM tools and games, and I write essays to think out loud about how products work, why some win, and what the next thing might be.
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