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“….smart-creative product managers need to find the technical insights that make products better. These derive from knowing how people use the products (and how those patterns will change as technology progresses), from understanding and analyzing data, and from looking at technology trends and anticipating how they will affect their industry.”

“They don’t take all the product team minutes, they don’t project manage the various functions, they are not gophers for engineering. Good product managers don’t give direction informally. Good product managers gather information informally. Good product managers create leveragable collateral, FAQs, presentations, white papers. Bad product managers complain that they spend all day answering questions for the sales force and are swamped.” 

Classics – Product Management Classics

PM Skills – Commonly desired skills for Product Managers

Useful mental models – Sense of things and generate ideas

Arguing from First Principles — “A first principle is a basic, foundational, self-evident proposition or assumption that cannot be deduced from any other proposition or assumption.”

Classics

The opposite of hapless -relentlessly resourceful – pgraham

The only thing that matters (the market, the market, the market and the team and the product)- pmarca

PRODUCT THINKING

Product management mental models – Brandon Chu

First Principles of Product Management – Brandon Chu

Product market fit – Tren Griffin

Design thinking process :

  1. How would you design an interface for a 1000 floor elevator? : link

Building great culture as a PM :

  1. How to work with engineers by Julie Zhou : link
  2. How to work with designers by Julie Zhou : link

Execution and Priortisation :

  1. The time value of shipping by Brandon chu : https://lnkd.in/dvHVpG7D
  2. Deadlines by Brandon chu : https://lnkd.in/dNS7ApXh

Defensible growth :

  1. Do things that dont scale by Paul Graham : https://lnkd.in/dnmJ285n

2.What we look in founders by Paul Graham : https://lnkd.in/dHE45YSq

  1. Why paid marketing sucks, Network effects, Viral Growth, and more : https://lnkd.in/d6pe8mYv

Product leadership :

  1. Why leaders eat last by Simon sinek : https://lnkd.in/dHBmikuX
  2. Navigation success for your startup by Sam altman : https://lnkd.in/dSur_KYX

Miscellenous :

  1. Titktok and the sorting hat : https://lnkd.in/dcRNTu8D
  2. Seeing like an algorithm : https://lnkd.in/dEe8Xtg6
  3. Shein the tiktok of commerce: https://lnkd.in/dzhRe_fN
USER PSYCHOLOGY

User experience research – brief 5 min intro

USER RESEARCH & DISCOVERY

LEADERSHIP & ORGANIZATIONS

First 30 days as PM – Ken Norton

HIRING & BUILDING TEAMS

Vetting and hiring the best product managers – by Todd Jackson

How to hire Product Managers – Ken Norton and Others

MEASURING

QUICK LINKS

Pocket Collections – Product management ,

PRODUCT MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORKS

What is an OKR? Please define it for me.

RICE: Simple prioritization for product managers

Growth Loops are the New Funnels — Reforge

What is Jobs to be Done (JTBD)?

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The Road to $100M — Reforge

How To Get The Most Out Of Customer Interviews

Medium – Get smarter about what matters to you.

Crossing the Canyon: Product Manager to Product Leader

How To Become a Peak Product Manager

PRODUCT CANON

how to be a good PM

generating ideas

saas startup 101

power of wandering

75 years of US advertising

why figma wins product and cloud strategy

Navigate Disruption

How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy

FUTURE THINKING

Wave hunting

tailwinds of silicon valley

This is a compelling story about a model that seems to reflect what actually happens.

unbundling reddit, social

STRATEGY & PRODUCT

Commoditizing complements

Distribution – Channel as a function of product and target audience

How to miss by a mile and Uber valuation, TAM

Bundling and pricing

art of business

arbitrage

Business of AI vs traditional software

Platform strategy

competitive strategy

signaling as a service

A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from John Malone

lots of things happening at once

growth strategies

Product Work Beyond Product-Market Fit — Reforge

marketplaces

employee handbook

pricing faang

Platform strategy

a16z Podcast: Building Products for Power Users

The Ultimate Guide to SaaS Product Management

PRODUCT DESIGN

Laws of UX

Critiquing designs

ENGINEERING

Making netflix data cost effective

Ecosystems as major drivers of software development

PRODUCT ANALYTICS

Mix panel guide to product analytics

QUOTES

Making netflix data cost effective

Who backs your company

Bill gates memo

PROFILES GENERAL

Marc

5 Habits Of People Who Always Get Promoted

Cracking the Google (PM) Interview

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