Learning materials for product managers

Getting into product management can be hard. Here are some resources I found most useful along my journey.

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”

— Earl Nightingale

Being a product manager is actually something you mostly learn on the job. Shipping products while working with various teams is a unique experience that is hard to replicate in a classroom. But many have broken into PM without experience, and here is a collection of things I have found to be very helpful for the journey.

Blog posts

1. Ken Norton: How to hire a product manager

2. Pmarca: The only thing that matters

3. Paul Graham: Do things that don’t scale

4. Paul Graham: Relentlessly resourceful

5. First Round: Complexity cost

6. Joel on Software: Context switching

Podcasts / videos

1. How to start a startup: YouTube, Podcast

2. Masters of scale

3. 99% invisible

4. How I built this

Books (affiliate links below)

1. Escaping the competitive herd

2. Rework

3. Zero to one

4. The hard thing about hard things

5. Hooked

6. The lean startup

7. Crossing the chasm

8. The design of everyday things