Books

These are the books I most often recommend to people interested in product management. Some of them are written explicitly about product management or software development, but many are just useful for anyone who is interested in building and running a product and a business.

Highlighted books are the ones that made the biggest impact on me.

Zero to One - Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
Inspired - Marty Cagan
High Output Management - Andy Grove
Domain Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software - Eric Evans
The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Ben Horowitz
The Pragmatic Programmer - Dave Thomas & Andrew Hunt - The first edition of this book, after Learning Perl, first got me excited about building software for the internet, and changed the course of my life.
Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change - Kent Beck - An early agile classic, long before scrum became the blunt hammer it is today. Maybe less relevant these days, but still filled with wisdom.
Decisive - Chip & Dan Heath
Shoe Dog - Phil Knight - The incredible story behind one of history’s most iconic brands and companies.
Tiny Habits - BJ Fogg
What Got You Here Won’t Get You There - Marshall Goldsmith
Mojo - Marshall Goldsmith
Insight - Tasha Eurich
Writing Effective Use Cases - Alistair Cockburn
Awareness - Anthony de Mello
The Courage to Be Disliked - Ichiro Kishimi, Koga Fumitake
Thinking in Bets - Annie Duke
Only the Paranoid Survive - Andy Grove
Shape Up - Ryan Singer
Obviously Awesome - April Dunford - Great primer on positioning.
Atomic Habits - James Clear
It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work - Jason Fried, David Heinemeir Hansson
Several Short Sentences About Writing - Verlyn Klinkenborg
Radical Focus - Christina Wodke
Radical Candor - Kim Scott
Deep Work - Cal Newport
Creative Selection - Ken Kocienda - Stories and memoirs of one of the engineers who worked at Apple on the first releases of Safari, the iPhone, and the iPad, full of insight on the power of small teams and iteration.