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Jul 21 - Jul 27, 2025

Product Fundamentals & Philosophy / Tability

• Want To Build An Incredible Product? Strive For The Delta Of "Wow" - By Wayne Chang.

• Great Product Managers are "Outcome Thinkers" - By Max Bennett.

• Solution-space taste - By Grant Slatton.

• Building a Great Product Management Organization - By Melissa Perri.

• Hackers and Painters - By Paul Graham.

• The Product Manager - By Paul Graham.

Product Development & Process / Tability

• Painless Functional Specifications – Part 2: What's a Spec? - By Joel Spolsky.

• Don't start a tech-enabled service - By Waseem Daher.

• The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback - By Dan Olsen.

• Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days - By Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Braden Kowitz.

• Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products - By Nir Eyal.

• Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making - By Tony Fadell.

• The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering - By Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

• Thinking in Systems: A Primer - By Donella H. Meadows.

Product Strategy & Planning / Tability

• OKRs and Product Roadmaps - By Roman Pichler.

• Product OKRs: Driving Outcomes Over Outputs - By Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia.

• Mud Rooms, Red Letters, and Real Priorities - By Merlin Mann.

• Good strategy understands affect, not just cognition - By Vaughn Tan.

• Seven strategy tensions … and misunderstandings - By Vaughn Tan.

• Startup Exercise: What can't be solved with money? - By Jason Cohen.

• Product Purgatory: When they love it but still don't buy - By Jason Cohen.

• Product Discovery Basics - By Teresa Torres.

• Remote Product Management Tips - By Atlassian.

• How to Craft Your Product Management Team Structure at Every Stage - By Nikhyl Singhal.

• The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses - By Eric Ries.

• The Four Steps to the Epiphany - By Steve Blank.

• The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company - By Steve Blank and Bob Dorf.

• Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers - By Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur.

• Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want (Strategyzer) - By Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur.

• The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change) - By Clayton M. Christensen.

• Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs - By John Doerr.

• Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind - By Al Ries and Jack Trout.

Customer Research & User Experience / Tability

• The Product Manager's Guide to UX Research - By Katryna Balboni.

• Effective User Interviews - By Product HQ.

• Story-Based Customer Interviews - By Teresa Torres.

• Product Management Skills: User Research - By Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia.

• Inside the 6 Hypotheses that Doubled Patreon's Activation Success - By Brian Balfour.

• How to Use the Google HEART Framework to Measure and Improve Your App's UX - By Emily Bonnie.

• Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value - By Teresa Torres.

• The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you - By Rob Fitzpatrick.

• Evidence-Guided: Creating High Impact Products in the Face of Uncertainty - By Itamar Gilad.

• The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition - By Don Norman.

• Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research - By Mike Kuniavsky.

• Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability - By Steve Krug.

Team Collaboration & Leadership / Tability

• The work is never just "the work" - By Dave Stewart.

• The Dos and Don'ts of Mentoring in Product - By Eira Hayward.

• Rickover's Lessons - By Lily Ottinger and Charles Yang.

• What is Good Product Strategy? - By Melissa Perri.

Product Metrics & Analytics / Tability

• SSEBITDA—A steady-state profit metric for SaaS companies - By Jason Cohen.

• In-depth: The AARRR pirate funnel explained - By PostHog.

Growth & Marketing / Tability

• How We Got Our First 2,000 Users Doing Things That Don't Scale - By Ryan Hoover.

Product Management Fundamentals / Tability

• Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love - By Marty Cagan.

• Transformed: Moving to the Product Operating Model - By Marty Cagan.

• Product Operations: How successful companies build better products at scale - By Melissa Perri and Denise Tilles.

• Building Products for the Enterprise - By Blair Reeves and Benjamin Gaines.

• The Product Book - By Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia and Josh Anon.

• Decode and Conquer - By Lewis C. Lin.

Team Leadership & Management / Tability

• Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity - By Kim Scott.

• Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration - By Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace.

Psychology & Behavioral Change / Tability

• Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard - By Chip Heath and Dan Heath.

• Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die - By Chip Heath and Dan Heath.

• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion - By Robert B. Cialdini.

Engineering & Technical / Tability

• High Output Management - By Andrew S. Grove.

• 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy - By Hamilton Helmer.

Oct 14 - Oct 20, 2024

Product Strategy & Planning / Tability

• Is or Is Not The Opposite Stupid on its Face? - By Roger Martin.

Product Metrics & Analytics / Tability

• Analytics should be an Assembly Line - By Taylor A. Murphy.

Growth & Marketing / Tability

• Guy Kawasaki, proto-evangelist - By Dave Winer.

• The Art of Evangelism - By Guy Kawasaki.

Aug 26 - Sep 01, 2024

Product Fundamentals & Philosophy / Tability

• My product is my garden - By Herman Martinus.

Customer Research & User Experience / Tability

• User Onboarding Examples: Analyzing 6 Real-Life Onboarding Flows - By Shanelle Mullin.

Team Collaboration & Leadership / Tability

• The Product-Minded Software Engineer - By Gergely Orosz.

Career Development & Skills / Tability

• Great PM Interview Answers Include Tradeoffs. Here's How. - By Sushanth Raman.

• Product Management Job Hunt: How to get an Interview and Nail it - By Kostas Sirvydis.

Growth & Marketing / Tability

• How To Get Media Coverage for Your Brand - By Michael Keenan.

Additional resources / Tability

• Marketing for Engineers (⭐13k) - A handy guide on growing marketing skills for folks with engineering backgrounds.

Feb 19 - Feb 25, 2024

Product Development & Process / Tability

• How to Deliver More Software Projects on Time - By Mark Suster.

• A Minimum Viable Product Is Not a Product, It's a Process - By Yevgeniy Brikman.

Product Strategy & Planning / Tability

• 12 Things about Product-Market Fit - By Tren Griffin.

Nov 06 - Nov 12, 2023

Product Development & Process / Tability

• Don't Give Your Users Shit Work - By Zach Holman.

Jun 05 - Jun 11, 2023

Product Fundamentals & Philosophy / Tability

• Quality is not a tradeoff - By Julie Zhuo.

Product Development & Process / Tability

• Shipping is a Feature: Some Guiding Principles for People That Build Things - By Michael Copeland.

• Painless Functional Specifications – Part 1: Why Bother? - By Joel Spolsky.

• Painless Functional Specifications – Part 3: But… How? - By Joel Spolsky.

• Painless Functional Specifications – Part 4: Tips - By Joel Spolsky.

Customer Research & User Experience / Tability

• How to Listen to Customers - By Ken Norton.

Career Development & Skills / Tability

• How Am I Going To Move My Product Forward Today? - By Sachin Rekhi.

May 15 - May 21, 2023

Product Fundamentals & Philosophy / Tability

• How to build great products - By Slava Akhmechet.

• If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good - By Paul Bucheit.

• Finding and Fostering Great Product Sense - By Stay SaaSy.

Career Development & Skills / Tability

• Relentlessly Resourceful - By Paul Graham.

• It's Time to Fight for a Dual Product Management Career Path - By Ken Norton.

Product Strategy & Planning / Tability

• Understanding How The Innovator's Dilemma Affects You - By Mark Suster.

Team Collaboration & Leadership / Tability

• Being Glue - By Tanya Reilly.

• You Won't Regret Positive Feedback - By Zach Holman.

• The Art of Persuasion Hasn't Changed in 2,000 Years - By Carmine Gallo.

Conferences / Tability

• La Product Conf - Organized by Thiga, La Product Conf (LPC) takes place once a year with events in Paris (France) and Madrid (Spain). The speaker lineup features product leaders from Pinterest, Carrefour, Payfit, Google, Meetic and more.

Apr 17 - Apr 23, 2023

Product Fundamentals & Philosophy / Tability

• The Tools Don't Matter - By Ken Norton.

Feb 27 - Mar 05, 2023

Team Collaboration & Leadership / Tability

• Remote teams - By Notion Team.

Feb 20 - Feb 26, 2023

Team Leadership & Management / Tability

• Staff Engineer - By Will Larson.

• Difficult Conversations - By Douglas Stone.

Feb 06 - Feb 12, 2023

Career Development & Skills / Tability

• Is It Possible to Work Remotely as a Product Manager? - By Roy Cobby.

Sep 12 - Sep 18, 2022

Product Development & Process / Tability

• Shape Up - By Ryan Singer.

Aug 29 - Sep 04, 2022

Team Collaboration & Leadership / Tability

• Coaching Tools – The Plan - By Marty Cagan.

Aug 01 - Aug 07, 2022

Product Strategy & Planning / Tability

• Is your company product-led, sales-led, or marketing-led? - By Philipp Cannons.

Career Development & Skills / Tability

• Getting to the Product Manager interview stage - By Glenn Gillen.

May 16 - May 22, 2022

Product Strategy & Planning / Tability

• Guide to building a product roadmap - By Hellonext, Inc.

• Good Strategy, Bad Strategy - By Richard Rumelt.

• Crossing The Chasm - By Geoffrey A. Moore.

Product Management Fundamentals / Tability

• EMPOWERED: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products - By Marty Cagan, Chris Jones.

Psychology & Behavioral Change / Tability

• The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business - By Charles Duhigg.

Aug 30 - Sep 05, 2021

Product Fundamentals & Philosophy / Tability

• The Black Box of Product Management - By Brandon Chu.

Career Development & Skills / Tability

• Why Product Operations is the Next Iteration in Product Management - By Christine Itwaru.

Aug 09 - Aug 15, 2021

Career Development & Skills / Tability

• So You Wanted to be a Product Manager - By Scott C. Reynolds.

Aug 02 - Aug 08, 2021

Product Fundamentals & Philosophy / Tability

• Do you really understand the concept of product value? - by Hubert Palan.

Product Metrics & Analytics / Tability

• How to Calculate Customer Lifetime Value - By Clint Fontanella.

Engineering & Technical / Tability

• The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn - By Richard W. Hamming.

Jul 26 - Aug 01, 2021

Team Leadership & Management / Tability

• An Elegant Puzzle - By Will Larson.

Jul 19 - Jul 25, 2021

Product Fundamentals & Philosophy / Tability

• Product Management Mental Models for Everyone - By Brandon Chu.

Product Strategy & Planning / Tability

• Virtuous Cycles, Platforms, Flywheels, Snowballs, and Tidal Waves - By Charlie Kindel.

Team Collaboration & Leadership / Tability

• How to Work with Designers - By Julie Zhuo.

• How to Work With Software Engineers - By Ken Norton.

• Mastering Effective Communication as a Product Manager - By Sachin Rekhi.

• The Top 10 Deliverables of Product Managers - By Sachin Rekhi.

Career Development & Skills / Tability

• PM at Microsoft - By Steven Sinofsky.

• Breaking into Product Management — Should you even consider it? - By Shubhi Saxena.

Product Management Fundamentals / Tability

• Escaping The Build Trap - By Melissa Perri.

• Intercom on Product Management

Customer Research & User Experience / Tability

• The Customer-Driven Playbook - By Jessica Rich and Travis Lowdermilk.

Team Leadership & Management / Tability

• The Manager's Path - By Camille Fournier.

Nov 16 - Nov 22, 2020

Additional resources / Tability

• Mobbin - Hand-picked collection of mobile app design patterns.

May 04 - May 10, 2020

Product Strategy & Planning / Tability

• On narratives - By Charlie Kindel.

Jan 27 - Feb 02, 2020

Career Development & Skills / Tability

• The dark side of expertise - By Jake Edge.

Engineering & Technical / Tability

• Creative Selection - By Ken Kocienda.

Nov 18 - Nov 24, 2019

Additional resources / Tability

• Stratechery by Ben Thompson - Product and strategy insights from the industry.

May 27 - Jun 02, 2019

Conferences / Tability

• Industry - Over 3 days, attendees will learn from renowned product leaders and share the latest methods, tools, and frameworks that they use to build, launch and scale world-class software products. Building world-class software products is hard. At INDUSTRY you will see how others manage product in different environments, from fast-paced startups to complex large enterprises.

• ProductCon - Organized by Product School, ProductCon takes place five times a year with events in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle and London. The speaker lineup features product leaders from Google, Slack, Amazon, Airbnb, Netflix, Facebook and more. You’ll learn best practices behind the most successful products, and new trends in AI, VR, IoT and Blockchain. You’ll also have the opportunity to interact with all our sponsor companies interested in recruiting PMs.

Apr 29 - May 05, 2019

Career Development & Skills / Tability

• How to Be an Expert in a Changing World - By Paul Graham.

• Hiring Your First Product Manager - By Steven Sinofsky.

Product Development & Process / Tability

• The Time Value of Shipping - By Brandon Chu.

• One door at a time - By Jason Fried.

• Do Things that Don't Scale - By Paul Graham.

• Speed as a habit - By Dave Girouard.

• A Comprehensive Guide To Product Design - By Nick Babich.

Product Strategy & Planning / Tability

• Deadlines - By Brandon Chu.

• Ruthless Prioritization - By Brandon Chu.

• How to focus on what's important, not just what's urgent - By Alice Boyes.

• Navigating Mid-Success - By Sam Altman.

Customer Research & User Experience / Tability

• The Quintessential Guide For Building An Unforgettable First-time User Experience - By Wayne Chang.

Team Collaboration & Leadership / Tability

• Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule - By Paul Graham.

Communities / Tability

• Women in Product (using Facebook)

• Product School (using Slack)

• The Product Coalition (using Slack)

• Product Collective (using Slack)