Product Management Resources

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Below is a collection of resources I've started to document which I have used and also learning currently from to improve my thinking around product management.

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Other related topics I've written about:​

1. How I think about my career

2. Frameworks I use for product management (for when you're in the role)

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Are you sure this is something you actually want?

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1. What motivates you in life? (video version)

   • ​Here’s what motivates me

2. Wait But Why - How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You)

   • I aim to reread this once every few months 

 

What is Product Management

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1. Josh Elman - A Product Manager’s Job

   • Let's talk about Product Management​

2. History of Product Management

3. Ian McCallister - What distinguishes the Top 1% of product managers from the Top 10%?

4. Good Product Manager, Bad Product Manager

5. Good Product Manager, Great Product Manager - Shreyas Doshi

6. Kenneth Norton - how to hire a Product Manager

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Vision​ and Strategy

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1. Jeff Bezos - Amazon 1997 Shareholder Letter

2. Larry Page and Sergey Brin - The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine

3. Elon Musk - The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan

4. Steve Jobs - iPhone Introduction in 2007

5. John Zimmer - The Third Transportation Revolution

6. Stewart Butterfield (Slack) - We Don't Sell Saddles Here

7. Sam Altman - Startup Playbook

8. Paul Graham - Be Good

9. Mark Andreesen - The only thing that matters

10. Sarah Tavel - Taking the wrong lesson from Uber

11. Invisible asymptotes

12. When Tailwinds Vanish

13. Amazon - Working Backwards

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Design

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1. Writing a Product Spec

2. Job stories rather than user stories

3. Julie Zhuo - Building Products

4. Tristan Harris - How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind

5. NYTimes - How Uber Uses Psychological Tricks to Push Its Drivers’ Buttons

6. Gaurav Oberoi - On Writing Product Specs

7. How Startups should use Behavioral Economics (Dan Ariely)

8. Design for people using people language

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Execution

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1. Josh Elman - The only metric that matters

2. Innovation versus optimization

3. Proxy metrics vs North Star metrics

4. Maker time versus manager time

5. Meetings That Don’t Suck

6. Organizing a Large Product Backlog

7. Lenny Rachitsky - 28 Ways to Grow Supply in a Marketplace

8. Julie Zhuo - Metrics Versus Experience

9. Peacetime PM / Wartime PM

10. Building a product on top of existing products’ platforms

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Leadership and Collaboration

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1. Ev Williams - The Job of Leadership

2. Ben Horowitz - Why Founders Fail: The Product CEO Paradox

3. Leading without Coding

4. Sachin Rekhi - The Most Underrated Product Management Skill: Influence Without Authority

5. Julie Zhuo - How to Work with Engineers

6. Julie Zhuo - How to Work with Designers

7. Julie Zhuo - How to Work with PMs

8. Better Meetings with Concise Global Context

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Miscellaneous​​

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1. Find, Vet, and Close the Best Product Managers

2. simonpan.com/work/uber

3. How Spotify’s Discover Weekly cracked human curation at internet scale

4. The simplest explanation of machine learning you’ll ever read

5. Great reading list in spreadsheet form