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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


      Execution and Priortization :
      The time value of shipping by Brandon chu : link
      Deadlines by Brandon chu : link

        Growth :
        Do things that dont scale by Paul Graham : https://paulgraham.com/ds.html
        What we look in founders by Paul Graham : link

        PRODUCT LEADERSHIP AND MANAGING ORGANIZATIONS

        1. Navigation success for your startup by Sam altman : https://lnkd.in/dSur_KYX
        2. How to work with engineers by Julie Zhou : link
        3. How to work with designers by Julie Zhou : link
        4. Why leaders eat last by Simon sinek : Video
        5. First 30 days as PM – Ken Norton
        6. Vetting and hiring the best product managers – by Todd Jackson
        7. How to hire Product Managers – Ken Norton and Others
        8. Miscellenous :
        9. Titktok and the sorting hat : https://lnkd.in/dcRNTu8D
        10. Seeing like an algorithm : https://lnkd.in/dEe8Xtg6
        11. Shein the tiktok of commerce: https://lnkd.in/dzhRe_fN
          User experience research – brief 5 min intro
        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)?

        Sign up for my personal mailing list

        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

        Design thinking process:
        How would you design an interface for a 1000 floor elevator? : link

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