Bookshelf
Books I've found useful and given me new perspectives
Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love
The text book version of how to do Product Management, although, reader beware, following it in your context might be ha...
Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters
I've followed 37 signals for a while and they offer a refreshingly different approach; work in 6-week cycles with built...
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
Practical strategies for forming good habits and breaking bad ones. Shows how tiny changes compound overtime.
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
How to think about AI as a co-creator instead of a tool to get the most out of it.
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
I did the 30 day digital detox and it completely changed how I interact with tech that's screaming for my attention.
Empowered
How top product teams in the world work, how they're different "to the rest" and how to lead them.
Designing Your Life: Build the Perfect Career, Step by Step
Take a design thinking approach to your life and think through how you can test alternative realities for what you life...
Filterworld: How Algorithms Make Everything the Same
Made me realise how algorithms impact the real world and how important is to develop your own taste.
Escaping The Build Trap
Practical blueprint for when you're stuck shipping features but want to be more outcome focused.
Financial Intelligence: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean
This book helped me understand that corporate finance is both art and science, equipping to have a better understanding...
How Big Things Get Done
For big things, you need to plan slow to act fast. Also, reference forecasting is a thing (look it up).
Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster
How to pick the one metric that matters, and why leading metrics are more important than the lagging ones.
Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimise Work & Flow
What gets in the way of work flowing, how to spot problems before they happen and work transparently.
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
Most of the time, challenges around software are really people problems.
Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, Devops, and Helping Your Business Win
How not to do a re-platform
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
You can create a lot of meaningful work with balance. We're not machines, so don't try to be one. Embrace downtime and s...
Sooner Safer Happier: Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility
Simple framework that dives into why you need to focus on five outcomes; Better (quality), Value, Sooner (flow), Safer a...
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas In Just Five Days
Gave me a repeatable toolkit for when you need to move at pace with product discovery
The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and The Art of Living
Focus on what's in your control. Reading this book every day year-in year out is one of those things!
Transformed: Moving to the Product Operating Model
What needs to change to move to a product model that's more outcome focused; it's a lot, it's hard and needs more than t...
Unstressable: A Practical Guide To Stress-Free Living
Working in product can be stressful. This helped me understand how stress works and what to do about it.