Here’s a list of the best resources I’ve found for new (and old!) product managers and/or the product-curious.
Blogs & newsletters
- Not Boring by Packy McCormick
- Stratechery by Ben Thompson
- Benedict Evans’s blog
- Lenny’s Newsletter by Lenny Rachitsky
- Li’s Newsletter by Li Jin. Also check out her blog
- Trends.vc by Dru Riley
- Unchained newsletter by Laura Shin (on web3 / blockchain)
- TLDR Newsletter
- The Generalist
- First Round Review
- Paul Graham’s essays
- Intercom’s product blog
- No-Code Startup Ideas (by me, lol)
Podcasts (all spotify links, sorry)
- Indie Hackers Podcast
- Acquired
- Invest Like the Best (Founders Field Guide)
- My First Million
- The Product Podcast by Product School
- Product Thinking by Melissa Perri
- SaaS Interviews with Nathan Latka
- Intercom on Product
- The Breakout Growth Podcast with Sean Ellis
- a16z Podcast
- Product Hunt Podcast
- Twenty Minute VC with Harry Stebbings
- Founder Real Talk
- Business Casual
- This Week In Startups
- Starting Greatness
- Internet History Podcast
- Shreyas Doshi
- Toby Rogers
- Jessica Uelmen
- Austin Yang
- Product Diaries
- Natalya Barashnikova
- Gibson Biddle
- Khushbu
Books
- Map Out Cultural Conflicts On Your Team by Erin Meyer, based on Meyer’s book The Culture Map
- The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
Landing pages
- Nic Sharma landing page guide (ecommerce focus)
- Lapa.ninja (4k+ landing page examples)
- Runway.com (really cool landing page built with Svelte and Svelte scroller)
Other resources
- Growth.Design – interactive comics on product design & growth principles
- Design Kit – all the design thinking resources you could ever need
- The Product Vision Board by Roman Pichler – a helpful framework for laying out the vision for a new product
- SAFe 5 for Lean Enterprises – how to do agile but in a massive company
- Product Management Templates by Product School
- Bubble Academy – how to build almost any digital product with no code
- Lean Canvas – to flesh out a new business idea. Create one on Trello with this power-up, or get the Lean Canvas mobile app to create a canvas wherever/whenever.
Interview prep
Customer development & user testing
- 12 Tips for Early Customer Development Interviews by Giff Constable
- Maze – app that makes it easy to have users remotely test your prototypes, including instructions, screen recording, etc.
