The Websites I Follow

The Books I Read

Name Written by Notes
Profit First Mike Michalowicz
The Mom Test Rob Fitzpatrick
Jobs to be Done Wunker Stephen
No Rules Rules Reed Hastings
The Psychology of Money Housel Morgan
Good to Great Jim Collins
Radical Candor Kim Malone Scott
Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers Gabriel Weinberg
Rework Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hanson
Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value Teresa Torres
Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters Richard P. Rumelt
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future Peter Thiel
Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon Colin Bryar
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers Geoffrey A Moore
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness Eric Jorgenson
Kanban and Scrum - making the most of both Henrik Kniberg
How to Take Smart Notes Sönke Ahrens
The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You Julie Zhuo
Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable Seth Godin
The Hard Thing About Hard Things Ben Horowitz
Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity Frank Slootman
The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels Michael D Watkins
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones James Clear
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk Al Ries
Impact Mapping: Making a Big Impact with Software Products and Projects Gojko Adzic
Build It: The Rebel Playbook for World Class Employee Engagement Glenn Elliot
Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience Jeff Gothelf
Practical Empathy İndi Young
Badass: Making Users Awesome Kathy Sierra
User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product Jeff Patton
The Lean Startup Eric Ries
Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition Lyssa Adkins
Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction while Embracing Uncertainty Todd C. Lombardo
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products Nir Eyal
Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love Marty Cagan
Thick Face, Black Heart : The Asian Path to Thriving, Winning and Succeeding Chu Chin-Ning
How Google Works Eric Schmidt
7 Habits of Highly Effective People Stephen R Covey

AI

My Journey with AI

The Newsletters I Read

# Name Written by Notes
1 **Who’s Got the Monkey?** by William Oncken, Jr., and Donald L. Wass
2 On agency by **Henrik Karlsson and Johanna Karlsson** To be agentic, you have to really look at the problem and at the solution space and accept the responsibility of learning what is necessary to make the problem go away.
3 Ira Glass on Storytelling 3 newsletter like youtube video good for motivation at what you are about to do
4 Strategies for learning Andy Masley -Act! Favorable conditions might never come!
-Learning to accept and move away from sunk costs earlier would have been useful.
-Spaced repetition, diligent note taking, and writing to learn are the three systems I use that help me test my learning.

The Podcasts I Listened

# Name Notes
1 [**The one question that saves product careers Matt LeMay**](https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/the-one-question-that-saves-product-careers-matt-lemay)
2 [**Why ChatGPT will be the next big growth channel (and how to capitalize on it) Brian Balfour**](https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/why-chatgpt-will-be-the-next-big-growth-channel-brian-balfour)
3 Sam Altman's Method for Clear Thinking buy a notebook (small&rippable, and a pen- carry on always)
4 [**Lessons on product sense, AI, the first mile experience, and the messy middle Scott Belsky (Adobe)**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCKosdV1J-8)
5 [**Why LinkedIn is turning PMs into AI-powered "full stack builders” Tomer Cohen (LinkedIn CPO)**](https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/why-linkedin-is-replacing-pms)
6 [**The 100-person AI lab that became Anthropic and Google's secret weapon Edwin Chen (Surge AI)**](https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/surge-ai-edwin-chen)

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