My Personal Reading List

Updated: 06/04/2021

My favourite books https://app.thepmlibrary.com/u/alex & content recommendations http://beyond.so/alex

Currently reading

• Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Christopher Voss and Tahl Raz
• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Taleb

Finished

• Liminal Thinking: Create the Change You Want by Changing the Way You Think by Dave Gray
• The Forever Transaction: How To Build A Subscription Model So Compelling, Your Customers Will Never Want To by Robbie Kellman Baxter
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu
• The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek
• No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Erin Meyer & Reed Hastings
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
• Building User Research Teams: How To Create UX Research Teams That Deliver Impactful Insights by Steve Bromley
• Product Direction: How Product Leaders scale empowered teams with Strategy, Roadmaps, and OKRs by Nacho Bassino
• Do Design: Why Beauty is Key to Everything by Alan Moore
• Testing Business Ideas by David J. Bland & Alexander Osterwalder
• The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback by Dan Olsen
• The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company by Bob Iger
• Strong: A Complete Guide to Growing Great Product Managers by Petra Wille
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
• Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
• Loonshots: How To Nurture The Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, And Transform Industries by Safi Bahcall
• Forever Employable: How to Stop Looking for Work and Let Your Next Job Find You by Jeff Gothelf
• Obviously Awesome: How to Nail Product Positioning so Customers Get It, Buy It, Love It by April Dunford
• Design For The Real World by Victor Papanek
• Unlearn: Let go of past success to achieve extraordinary results by Barry O.
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• Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
• Rich dad poor dad: What the rich teach their kids about money — That the poor and middle class do not! by Robert T. Kiyosaki
• Hacking Growth: How today’s fastest growing companies drive breakout success by Sean Ellis & Morgan Brown
• Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters by Richard Rumelt
• AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee
• Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
• What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture by Ben Horowitz
• Make time: How to focus on what matters every day by Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky
• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
• The Captain Class: The Hidden Force That Creates the World’s Greatest Teams by Sam Walker
• The Making Of A Manager by Julie Zhou
• Our Iceberg Is Melting by John Kotter & Holger Rathgeber
• Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle
• Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
• Data Science for Business: What You Need to Know about Data Mining and Data-Analytic Thinking by Foster Provost & Tom Fawcett
• Escaping the Build Trap: How effective product management creates value by Melissa Perri.
• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel & Blake Masters
• Move fast and break things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy by Jonathan Taplin
• Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom
• Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull
• The Decision Book: Fifty models for strategic thinking by Mikael Krogerus & Roman Tschäppeler
• Talk like TED: The 9 public speaking secrets of the world’s top minds by Carmine Gallo
• The Growth Handbook by Intercom
• The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World by Brad Stone
• Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek
• What They Don’t Teach You At Harvard Business School by Mark McCormack
• Intercom on Product Management by Des Traynor & John Collins
• The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
• Lateral Thinking: A Textbook of Creativity by Edward de Bono
• Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal & Ryan Hoover
• The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
• Sprint: How to solve big problems and test new ideas in just five days by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky & Braden Kowitz
• Impact Mapping: Making a big impact with software products and projects by Gojko Adzic
• Intercom on Starting Up by Des Traynor & Eoghan McCabe
• Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
• The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition by Don Norman
• Product Leadership: How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful Teams by Richard Banfield, Martin Eriksson & Nate Walkingshaw
• User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product by Jeff Patton & Peter Economy
• Meaningful: The Story of Ideas That Fly by Bernadette Jiwa
• The Laws of Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life by John Maeda
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
• Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams by Jeff Gothelf & Josh Seiden
• Webs of Influence: The Psychology of Online Persuasion by Nathalie Nahai
• Inspired: How to create tech products customers love by Marty Cagan
• Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug
• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

Next

• Zero to Sold: How to Start, Run, and Sell a Bootstrapped Business by Arvid Kahl
• Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School by Philip Delves Broughton
• Enlightenment Now: The Case For Reason, Science, Humanism, And Progress by Steven Pinker
• Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About The World — And Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling
• Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Scott
• How to Speak Machine: Computational Thinking for the Rest of Us by John Maeda
• Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert Sapolsky
• The Team That Managed Itself: A Story of Leadership by Christina Wodtke
• Outcomes Over Output: Why customer behaviour is the key metric for business success by Joshua Seiden
• Just Enough Research by Erika Hall
• The Four: The Hidden DNA Of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, And Google by Scott Galloway
• Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know by Malcom Gladwell
• Tech Humanist: How You Can Make Technology Better for Business and Better for Humans by Kate O’Neill
• Blitzscaling: The lightning-fast path to building massively valuable companies by Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh.
• Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio