Blogging

Anyone here uses Wordpress for blogs? Or what website should one use for blogs? Would love to hear from you. :)

Hey product folks, how do you guys keep tabs on your competitors? What information do you generally look for? Being from a tech background, I go in-depth on everything like website changes, new marketing campaign launch, using their product, new product launches, new hiring posts (possibility of expansion), annual reports etc. in depth. I spend a lot of time doing this, and it gets too immersive sometimes, deviating me from my work. Are there any tools that can help automate this?

Read any good tech articles lately? Let's share in the comments

Tech, non tech - anything

I am thinking of starting a small blog which will outline small problems I have faced and their solutions. That would mainly focus on Python and Javascript. Does anyone have any blog platform suggestion?

I am 4 months into my first job as a product manager. I have never coded in my life except for a basic coding course in college. While I am always eager to understand technical concepts and tend to ask a lot of questions around the same I still feel there's a huge gap in communication. This leads to poorly estimated timelines, and often difficulty in assessing feasibility of ideas. I wish to learn more about software architecture, data management systems and the development processes in general. While I know I lack technical expertise, I don't want to discount the possibility of this just being a communication issue within the team. This is a series B startup just entering the growth phase, so no proper processes are set up as of now - again something I will have to streamline. My question is to all the product managers especially who don't come from a technical background - how did you bridge this gap?