Vacation reading

Hey there! FYI - I’m heading offline for end of summer reset. Wish me luck! I’ll see you back here in 10 days. Feel free to reply to posts, leave comments, etc — I’ll reply when I return.

In the meantime, here are some recommendations for your reading and listening pleasure. Most of these are not explicitly about product leadership, but they will all contribute to you—even if just a good laugh. I’ve enjoyed them in the last few months and always like to pass on good stuff.

Enjoy! I’ll catch you on the flip side.

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5 books:

• Getting to Zero: How to Work Through Conflict in Your High-Stakes Relationships

• What’s Our Problem? A self-help book for societies

• Turn the Ship Around (my favorite leadership book)

• Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain - I walked the Camino last summer and this brought me back. So well written.

• The Power of Ritual: Turning Everyday Activities into Soulful Practices

6 podcasts:

• What is creativity?

• How to build resilience and stay buoyant as a leader - MJ Jastrebski

• A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs

• Exploring Uncharted Territories: Navigating Horizon Three Strategies (I was the guest, talking all about product strategy)

• A Neuroscientist’s Curious Approach to Dying

• How to Disentangle from Toxic People

And 7 favorites from the PLD archive, if you want to get your product geek on:

• What is “strategy”?

• Don’t critique without context

• Does money motivate?

• What is a product?

• What is intuition?

• No 7s

• Should you quit?

• Start a work decision journal