# Blog - Nitin Murali > Essays on product thinking, strategy, and building with AI. Posts are hosted on Substack at https://nitinmurali.substack.com/ and mirrored here. ## Posts - [You don't need God-tier models to write your email](https://nitinmurali.substack.com/p/you-dont-need-god-tier-models-to) (Jul 14, 2026): Post-training a model on my sent folder - [Meetings don’t end when they end](https://nitinmurali.substack.com/p/meetings-dont-end-when-they-end) (Apr 22, 2026): Built an agent that generates grounded implementation plans from meetings - [Building Lyrics Translator With Codex CLI](https://nitinmurali.substack.com/p/building-lyrics-translator-with-codex) (Mar 29, 2026): Coding agents are addictive at this point. - [Building a /blog page for my site](https://nitinmurali.substack.com/p/building-a-blog-page-for-my-site) (Feb 17, 2026): ..with spec-driven development. - [What if Anyone at Your Company Could Create a Pull Request?](https://nitinmurali.substack.com/p/what-if-anyone-at-your-company-could) (Jun 6, 2025): Thoughts on Replit - [Winning companies stay closest to customers](https://nitinmurali.substack.com/p/winning-companies-stay-closest-to-customers) (May 9, 2024): Not a piece on user research, just a few thoughts on the interface layer! - [Why churn is not always bad in dating apps?](https://nitinmurali.substack.com/p/why-churn-is-not-always-bad-in-dating) (Feb 11, 2024): What I learned after overhearing a couple on the subway. - [What B2B physical products taught me about B2B SaaS products](https://nitinmurali.substack.com/p/what-b2b-physical-products-taught) (Jun 20, 2023): Great insights usually come from the most disconnected of industries. This time, it was no different - [What Linear and Figma taught me about product differentiation.](https://nitinmurali.substack.com/p/what-linear-and-figma-taught-me-about) (Dec 4, 2022): With a few learnings on competing in a red ocean market - [Jobs Theory and staying close to your users](https://nitinmurali.substack.com/p/jobs-theory-and-staying-close-to) (Oct 23, 2022): How a simple conversation about milkshakes rewired my brain - [Changelog: 2021-2022](https://nitinmurali.substack.com/p/changelog-2021-2022) (Apr 24, 2022): A list of misses in the year gone by - [Continuous Improvisation](https://nitinmurali.substack.com/p/continuous-improvisation) (Jan 2, 2022): Why should you become a feedback magnet? - [Product Improvements: Spotify TV](https://nitinmurali.substack.com/p/product-improvements-spotify-tv) (Oct 17, 2021): Most of us will agree that Spotify is one of the most well-designed products in recent times. - [No one cares about your product](https://nitinmurali.substack.com/p/no-one-cares-about-your-product) (Jul 27, 2021): Building with a null hypothesis and the Chekhov's Gun principle - [[Learnings] Building an MVP 101](https://nitinmurali.substack.com/p/ten-facts-about-building-minimum-viable-product) (Mar 25, 2021): With evolving customer needs and behaviors, building an MVP is a must-have skill - ["Nitin, take two steps back!"](https://nitinmurali.substack.com/p/nitin-take-two-steps-back) (Mar 23, 2021): Simple formula to manage conflicts and perform root cause analysis - [Focus on the problem, not your million-dollar solution!](https://nitinmurali.substack.com/p/minimum-viable-product) (Mar 11, 2021): The best PMs out there have a 360-degree view of the problem - [🗣️Talk to sales for amazing insights](https://nitinmurali.substack.com/p/talk-to-sales) (Dec 31, 2020): The sales team can give you insights that even your CEO can't! - [My journey of transitioning to a Product role](https://nitinmurali.substack.com/p/coming-soon) (Dec 5, 2020): Welcome to Product Stuff by me, Nitin Murali. ## Elsewhere on this site - [Work & experience](https://nitinmurali.vercel.app/work): Nitin Murali's role-by-role work history and education, with the outcome of each role. - [Coding explorations](https://nitinmurali.vercel.app/stuff/coding-explorations): Side projects and demos Nitin Murali has shipped, from AI agents to interactive product concepts. - [In the wild](https://nitinmurali.vercel.app/stuff/in-the-wild): Conference talks, demos, and product-management fireside chats Nitin Murali has hosted or presented. - [Blog](https://nitinmurali.vercel.app/stuff/blog): Latest writing synced from product stash on Substack. - [Behind the scenes](https://nitinmurali.vercel.app/behind-the-scenes): Short videos on how Nitin Murali builds things with AI. - [Agent & developer resources](https://nitinmurali.vercel.app/agents): Machine-readable entry points to nitinmurali.vercel.app: llms.txt, per-page Markdown, the profile JSON API, and its OpenAPI description. --- Canonical URL: https://nitinmurali.vercel.app/stuff/blog Markdown URL: https://nitinmurali.vercel.app/stuff/blog.md Site index for agents: https://nitinmurali.vercel.app/llms.txt | Whole site in one file: https://nitinmurali.vercel.app/llms-full.txt Page: Blog - Nitin Murali