Good reads.

This page is a my digital library. Storing books, articles, podcasts, courses, and content that resonated with me.


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Lenny Rachitsky

Lenny's Podcast, Lenny is the GOAT of facilitating interesting conversations with leaders product, founders, investors & marketing.

Lenny's Newsletter, same as above but in written form.

Casey Winters

Casey Accidental, blogging from one of the most respected PMs out there. Has great content on first principles thinking of Marketplaces & Platforms.

Gibson Biddle

Product Leadership Talks by Gibson Biddle, Well known for product & strategy.

Ben Thomson

Concepts, Provides analysis of the strategy and business side of technology and media.

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Podcast

Creators

Lenny's Podcast

Lenny interviews world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover concrete, actionable, and tactical advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product. This is 🔥

Intercom on Product Archives

Des Traynor & Paul Adams riff on all things product. Some standout episodes are the Product Principles & Rethinking Outcomes over Outputs.

‎How I Built This with Guy Raz on Apple Podcasts

guyraz Interviews with world’s best-known entrepreneurs to learn how they built their iconic brands.

The Platform Journey

Avanish Sahai hosts “The Platform Journey” which is a series of interviews of C-level leaders sharing their journey to build some of the most important platforms and ecosystems in software. Listen to: Xero: Building Your Platform The Right Way

a16z Podcast

Discussions about innovation as technology changes the way we all work, live, and play.

Y Combinator

We talk with people who are shaping the future. A show about technology in business, research, and art.

Specific Podcasts

Lenny’s Podcast: Elena Verna

Elena Verna is a product growth expert. Ex Miro, Surveymonkey and half of Silicon Valley at this stage as a consultant.

Will go into how growth focuses so much on acquisition, retention and monetisation optimisation.  

Lenny’s Podcast: Shishir Mehrotra

Ex Head of Product @ Youtube and now Creator of one of my fav writing tools, Coda. Talks about how great product teams operate.

Lenny’s Podcast: Marty Cagan

They dive into common pitfalls, how individuals can help shift culture, and why big companies often suck at product.

Lenny’s Podcast: Shreyas Doshi

Ex PM at Google, Twitter, Yahoo, Stripe. The LNO Framework is gold

Lenny’s Podcast: Kristen Berman  

CEO of Irrational Labs, who work with Google, ABNB, PayPal MSFT etc.

Covers how to use Behavioral Psychology to create better products & experiences. Really great episode.

How I Built This: Tobias Lütke

CEO of Shopify, just an amazing story of how a guy wanting to sell snowboards creates the worlds biggest eCom platform

How I built This: Joe Gebbia

Rad story of some scappy kids trying to make rent in San Fran failed, sold cereal, failed, then created the worlds biggest hotel chain.

Books

  • 🤷‍♂️ Read me if you want to understand the core tenants of Product Management. Written by PM Jesus, Cagan.

  • 🤷‍♂️ Read me if you want to understand how to grow into a becoming a product leader.

  • 🤷‍♂️ Read me if ou want to learn about how Bill Walsh turned a bottom of the ladder NFL team to Superbowl champions. It goes into his own personal and powerful road map to success as a leader whether in professional football or anywhere else.

  • 🤷‍♂️ Read me if you want to understand why customers choose to use products in the first place.

  • 🤷‍♂️ Read me if you want to learn about new ways PMs and designers can make a positive impact on their customers' lives

  • 🤷‍♂️ Read me if you want to better understand ways to increase your odds of success through practical ways through rapid experimentation.

  • 🤷‍♂️ Read me if you want to understand how to integrate quickly towards market fit.

  • 🤷‍♂️ Read me if you want to know how to drive a startup. How to steer, when to turn, and when to persevere-and grow a business.

  • 🤷‍♂️ Read me if you want to better understand how successful companies that dominate their industries fail in the face of disruptive innovation.

  • 🤷‍♂️ Read me if you want a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world.

  • 🤷‍♂️ Read me if want to understand how to breakdown markets according to their psychographics into innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, laggards.

  • 🤷‍♂️ Read me if you want to understand methods to drive great execution.

  • 🤷‍♂️ Read me if you want to understand how to get your team aligned around real, measurable goals, Radical Focus will teach you how to do it quickly and clearly."

  • 🤷‍♂️ Read me if you want to learn more from conversations with customers.

  • 🤷‍♂️ Read me if you want to gain a deeper understanding into forecasts & predictions and how to read them.

  • 🤷‍♂️ Read me if you want to understand how to empower a team. Turning followers into leaders.

  • 🤷‍♂️ Read me if you want a blueprint to implement guiding principles, operating rhythms and durable mechanisms that allow teams to scale effectively, even as your business expands at an accelerated clip

  • 🤷‍♂️ Read me if you want to think better about how to market & grow products.

  • 🤷‍♂️ Read me if you want to learn about how build products based on behavioural psychology

  • 🤷‍♂️ Read me if you want to learn about creating something new & disruptive.

    Doing what someone else already knows how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But when you do something new, you go from 0 to 1.

  • 🤷‍♂️ Read me if you want a deep dive into the difficulties in building business.

  • 🤷‍♂️ Read me if you want to better understand the philosophy behind Netflix growing from a disruptor to Video rentals to the powerhouse streaming service of today.

  • 🤷‍♂️ Read me if you want understand ways to think about your career and growth from one of the most successful CEOs of a global powerhouse.

  • 🤷‍♂️ Read me if you want to understand about how passion, perseverance, loyalty and teamwork helped grow Nike.

  • 🤷‍♂️ Read me if you want to understand organisation culture, the how and why behind putting in place intentional cultural pillars aligned with the business we are building.

  • 🤷‍♂️ Read me if you want to understand how you can build, lead and inspire teams to do the best work of their lives.

  • 🤷‍♂️ Read me if you want to learn how Padigonia built a truly sustainable business, setting the example for others to follow.

  • 🤷‍♂️ Read me if you want understand ways to approach roadmaps for the various stakeholders that need them.

  • 🤷‍♂️ Read me if you want to understand how your brain works. It is chock-full of simple but profound psychological, behavioral, and economic insights that will make you a better thinker and decision maker and help you avoid some of the more common cognitive pitfalls that lead people astray in their lives.

  • 🤷‍♂️ Read me if you want to understand how design serves as the communication between object and user, and how to optimise that conduit of communication in order to make the experience of using the object pleasurable.

  • 🤷‍♂️ Read me if you want to understand how to define success in terms of reaching a specific outcome

  • 🤷‍♂️ Read me if you want an actionable frameworks for navigating the hard choices along the way of building products.

  • 🤷‍♂️ Read me if you want to better understand user story maps and how they can be used in the product process.