Books

Learn to research better

Just Enough Research by Erika Hall

• Only 154 pages and written in a simple, easy to digest way
• Learn about the different types of user research, competitive research, and analysis and models
• A great for PMs to refresh and level up your research skills

“Steve in Louisvillle may be asking for a more informative error message, but what he really wants is to be able to reorder his usual pizza and salad with a different credit card and no error message.”

The basics of being a Product Manager

Escaping The Build Trap by Melissa Perri

• Only 174 pages and written in a simple, easy to digest way
• Learn about the role of a PM, how to think about strategy, the PM process, and what product-led organizations look like.
• A great resource for new PMs and people considering the career

“Product management is the domain of recognizing and investigating the known unknowns and of reducing the universe around the unknown unknowns.”

Create more time in the day

The 4% Fix by Karma Brown

• It’s literally how I found the time to build PM Better
• Learn to free up 1 hour (4%) of the day for yourself
• The core idea is what’s most valuable making this a light read with short chapters