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Oct 14 - Oct 20, 2024

Articles / Obsidian

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

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

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

• The Art of Evangelism - By Guy Kawasaki.

Aug 26 - Sep 01, 2024

Articles / Obsidian

• My product is my garden - By Herman Martinus.

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

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

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

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

• Professional Development as a Product Manager - By Clement Kao Clement Kao.

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

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

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

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

• 10-30-50 Product Management - By Stephen Cognetta.

Additional resources / Obsidian

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

Feb 19 - Feb 25, 2024

Articles / Obsidian

• 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.

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

Nov 06 - Nov 12, 2023

Articles / Obsidian

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

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

Jun 05 - Jun 11, 2023

Articles / Obsidian

• 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 2: What’s a Spec? - By Joel Spolsky.

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

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

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

• How to Listen to Customers - By Ken Norton.

• Quality is not a tradeoff - By Julie Zhuo.

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

May 15 - May 21, 2023

Articles / Obsidian

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

• Being Glue - By Tanya Reilly.

• 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.

• Relentlessly Resourceful - By Paul Graham.

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

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

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

Conferences / Obsidian

• 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

Articles / Obsidian

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

Feb 27 - Mar 05, 2023

Articles / Obsidian

• Remote teams - By Notion Team.

Feb 20 - Feb 26, 2023

Books / Obsidian

• Outcomes over Output: Why Customer Behavior Is the Key Metric for Business Success - By Joshua Seiden.

• Difficult Conversations - By Douglas Stone.

• Staff Engineer - By Will Larson.

Feb 06 - Feb 12, 2023

Articles / Obsidian

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

Sep 12 - Sep 18, 2022

Books / Obsidian

• Shape Up - By Ryan Singer.

Aug 29 - Sep 04, 2022

Articles / Obsidian

• Coaching Tools – The Plan - By Marty Cagan.

Aug 01 - Aug 07, 2022

Articles / Obsidian

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

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

May 16 - May 22, 2022

Articles / Obsidian

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

Books / Obsidian

• Good Strategy, Bad Strategy - By Richard Rumelt.

• Crossing The Chasm - By Geoffrey A. Moore.

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

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

Feb 07 - Feb 13, 2022

Articles / Obsidian

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

Aug 30 - Sep 05, 2021

Articles / Obsidian

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

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

Aug 09 - Aug 15, 2021

Articles / Obsidian

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

Aug 02 - Aug 08, 2021

Articles / Obsidian

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

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

Books / Obsidian

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

Jul 26 - Aug 01, 2021

Books / Obsidian

• An Elegant Puzzle - By Will Larson.

Jul 19 - Jul 25, 2021

Articles / Obsidian

• PM at Microsoft - By Steven Sinofsky.

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

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

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

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

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

• How to Work with Designers - By Julie Zhuo.

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

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

Books / Obsidian

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

• Escaping The Build Trap - By Melissa Perri.

• The Manager's Path - By Camille Fournier.

• Intercom on Product Management

Nov 16 - Nov 22, 2020

Additional resources / Obsidian

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

May 18 - May 24, 2020

Books / Obsidian

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

May 04 - May 10, 2020

Articles / Obsidian

• On narratives - By Charlie Kindel.

Jan 27 - Feb 02, 2020

Articles / Obsidian

• The dark side of expertise - By Jake Edge.

Books / Obsidian

• Creative Selection - By Ken Kocienda.

Nov 18 - Nov 24, 2019

Additional resources / Obsidian

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

Jun 24 - Jun 30, 2019

Books / Obsidian

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

May 27 - Jun 02, 2019

Books / Obsidian

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

Conferences / Obsidian

• 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

Articles / Obsidian

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

• One door at a time - By Jason Fried.

• Hiring Your First Product Manager - By Steven Sinofsky.

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

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

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

• The Time Value of Shipping - By Brandon Chu.

• Deadlines - By Brandon Chu.

• Ruthless Prioritization - By Brandon Chu.

• Navigating Mid-Success - By Sam Altman.

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

• Speed as a habit - By Dave Girouard.

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

Books / Obsidian

• 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Communities / Obsidian

• Women in Product (using Facebook)

• Product School (using Slack)

• The Product Coalition (using Slack)

• Product Collective (using Slack)