My Recommended Resources
Books, articles, tools, and communities I actually use. Updated as my stack and playbooks evolve.
Books
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Strategic Database Marketing
Arthur Middleton Hughes
Techniques for improving customer loyalty through data-driven marketing.
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Working Backwards
Colin Bryar & Bill Carr
Mechanisms over one-offs. Great for product/ops cadence.
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Amp It Up
Frank Slootman
Raise the bar, narrow the focus, speed up execution.
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Never Split The Difference
Chris Voss
Master negotiation tactics to get what you want.
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Strengthsfinder 2.0
Gallup and Tom RathZ
Discover your strengths and build on them for success.
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Product Marketing Debunked
Yasmeen Turayhi
A toolkit to navigate the complexities of product marketing.
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Case Interview Questions for Tech Companies
Lewis C. Lin
Prepare for tech company case interviews with this comprehensive guide.
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The Product Manager Interview
Lewis C. Lin
The ultimate resource for product management interviews.
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Interview Math
Lewis C. Lin
Master quantitative interview questions with this guide.
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Everything Explained Through Flowcharts
Doogie Horner
A fun and insightful approach to explaining everything with flowcharts.
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The Product Marketing Manager
Lucas Weber
The complete guide for product marketing managers.
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How to be a Chief Operating Officer
Jennifer Geary
Your roadmap to becoming an effective COO.
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Group Dynamics for Teams
Daniel Levi
Master the art of group dynamics and team collaboration.
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The Strategist
Cynthia A. Montgomery
How to think strategically and guide your organization forward.
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The First 90 Days
Michael D. Watkins
Critical strategies for new leaders in their first 90 days.
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Systems Ultra
Georgina Voss
A guide to designing ultra-effective systems for performance.
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A Working Stiff's Manifesto
Iain Levison
An insightful look into the world of work and labor.
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The Crossover
Kwame Alexander
A compelling story of family, basketball, and growth.
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Difficult Conversations
Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen
How to navigate tough conversations with confidence.
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Killing Giants
Stephen Denny
Winning strategies for overcoming the giants in your industry.
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How to Talk To Anyone
Leil Lowndes
Build lasting connections and become a master of conversation.
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Negotiations
Leigh Thompson
Master negotiation skills to improve both business and personal life.
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You Can Negotiate Anything
Herb Cohen
A master negotiator's guide to every situation.
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Switch
Chip Heath & Dan Heath
How to change anything by changing the way you think.
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Product Roadmaps Relaunched
C. Todd Lombardo, Bruce McCarthy, Evan Ryan, Michael Connors
Build and execute successful product roadmaps.
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The Martian
Andy Weir
A gripping sci-fi novel about survival on Mars.
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What I Didn't Learn in Business School
Jay B. Barney, Trish Gorman Clifford
Business wisdom and real-world lessons from the trenches.
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Rethinking Competitive Advantage
Ram Charan
A new approach to achieving sustainable business success.
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Inspired
Marty Cagan
Building products that customers love and deliver value.
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Built To Last
James C. Collins, Jerry I. Porras
A deep dive into the characteristics of visionary companies.
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The Pyramid Principle
Barbara Minto
A powerful framework for clear, logical thinking.
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Writing Without Bullshit
Josh Bernoff
Cut the fluff and communicate with clarity.
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When Coffee & Kale Compete
Alan Klement
How product decisions are shaped by customers' needs.
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Building A Story Brand
Donald Miller
Clarify your message to connect with customers and grow your business.
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My Years with General Motors
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.
An autobiography of a pioneering business leader.
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The Toyota Way
Jeffrey K. Liker
Key principles behind Toyota's management success.
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The Product Manager's Survival Guide
Steven Haines
A survival guide for product managers at every stage of their career.
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The Product Manager's Desk Reference
Steven Haines
A comprehensive resource for managing product lifecycles.
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Ecommerce For CEOs
Dean Mcelwee
A business-focused guide to running successful e-commerce.
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The E Myth Revisited
Michael E. Gerber
Why small businesses fail and what to do about it.
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The Talent Management Handbook
Berger and Berger
A comprehensive guide for managing and developing talent.
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The Goal
Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox
A story-based guide to operations and process improvement.
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High Output Management
Andrew S. Grove
Management principles from the former Intel CEO.
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Designing Your Life
Bill Burnett & Dave Evans
How to design a life you love, from Stanford professors.
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What Color Is Your Parachute
Bolles with Brooks
A practical guide for career changers and job seekers.
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Chief of Staff
Tyler Parris
A guide to effectively managing operations and projects as a Chief of Staff.
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The Business of Music
M. William Krasilovsky and Sidney Shemel
A deep dive into the business side of the music industry.
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Decode and Conquer
Lewis C. Lin
A guide to acing interviews at top companies.
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Email Marketing Rules
Chad White
The reference manual for email strategy, deliverability, and subscriber experience.
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Hacking Growth
Sean Ellis & Morgan Brown
How the fastest-growing companies build cross-functional growth teams.
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Retention Point
Robert Skrob
Pinpoints the moment subscribers decide to stay or churn.
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Customer Centricity
Peter Fader
Not all customers are equal: focus resources on the ones who drive value.
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The Loyalty Effect
Frederick Reichheld
The economics of retention and why small improvements in loyalty compound.
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Loved
Martina Lauchengco
Product marketing from the operator who helped build Silicon Valley Produc Group.
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Marketing Artificial Intelligence
Paul Roetzer & Mike Kaput
A practical framework for piloting AI across your marketing org.
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AI for Marketers
Christopher Penn
Cuts through the hype and maps AI use cases to actual marketing workflows.
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Prediction Machines
Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans & Avi Goldfarb
Reframes AI as a drop in the cost of prediction, then follows the economics.
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Human + Machine
Paul Daugherty & H. James Wilson
Case studies of companies that get the human-AI collaboration loop right.
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The AI Marketing Canvas
Raj Venkatesan & Jim Lecinski
A five-stage roadmap for integrating AI into marketing strategy.
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Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind
Al Ries & Jack Trout
The original playbook for owning a category in your customer's mind.
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Robert Cialdini
Six principles that explain why people say yes, backed by decades of research.
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This Is Marketing
Seth Godin
Marketing as an act of service: find the smallest viable audience and earn trust.
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Contagious: Why Things Catch On
Jonah Berger
Six drivers of word-of-mouth, grounded in behavioral science.
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Crossing the Chasm
Geoffrey Moore
How to move from early adopters to mainstream market adoption.
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Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
Nir Eyal
The trigger-action-reward-investment loop behind sticky products.
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Ogilvy on Advertising
David Ogilvy
Timeless ad craft from the man who built the modern agency model.
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The Brand Gap
Marty Neumeier
A slim, visual argument for bridging strategy and design.
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Zag
Marty Neumeier
When everyone zigs, the winning move is to zag into radical differentiation.
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Start with Why
Simon Sinek
Purpose-driven leadership as a competitive advantage.
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Shoe Dog
Phil Knight
The messy, real origin story behind one of the strongest brands on earth.
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Pour Your Heart Into It
Howard Schultz
How Schultz turned a Seattle coffee shop into a global brand experience.
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Brand Relevance
David Aaker
Win by creating categories where competitors simply do not exist.
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Good to Great
Jim Collins
What separates companies that make the leap from ones that never do.
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Two systems of thought, one book that rewires how you make decisions.
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The Innovator's Dilemma
Clayton Christensen
Why great companies fail when they do everything right.
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Competitive Strategy
Michael Porter
The foundational text on industry analysis and strategic positioning.
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Measure What Matters
John Doerr
OKRs explained by the investor who brought them to Google.
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Zero to One
Peter Thiel & Blake Masters
Contrarian thinking about building companies that create new markets.
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
No formula for CEO-level problems: war stories and practical advice.
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Lean Analytics
Alistair Croll & Benjamin Yoskovitz
Pick the one metric that matters for your stage, then move it.
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Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments
Ron Kohavi, Diane Tang & Ya Xu
The definitive guide to A/B testing from the teams at Microsoft and Google.
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Storytelling with Data
Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
How to turn charts into arguments that change decisions.
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Naked Statistics
Charles Wheelan
Statistical reasoning without the formulas, written for practitioners.
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Competing on Analytics
Thomas Davenport & Jeanne Harris
How analytics-driven organizations outperform by turning data into strategy.
Articles
Tools
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Braze
Messaging & Orchestration
Cross-channel orchestration at scale. The best platform I have used for lifecycle campaigns, Canvas flows, and real-time triggering.
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Klaviyo
Email & SMS
The go-to for DTC and e-commerce retention. Strong segmentation, solid event-based triggers, and a data model that makes sense out of the box.
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Attentive
SMS & MMS
Purpose-built for SMS. Compliance, list growth, and conversational messaging done right. Pairs well with a dedicated ESP.
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Salesforce Data Cloud
CDP
Unifies identity and events for 1:1 personalization. Heavy lift to implement, but the payoff in audience resolution is real.
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BigQuery
Data Warehouse
Warehouse for segmentation and predictive scoring. Handles the scale and the SQL is standard.
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n8n
Workflow Automation
Self-hostable workflows for CRM ops and data enrichment. I run this locally for everything from lead scoring to content pipelines.
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Claude Code
AI Development
My daily tool for code generation, content pipelines, and building internal tools. The best AI coding assistant I have used.
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Microsoft Power Automate
Enterprise Automation
Fast enterprise integrations with Copilot assist. Useful when you are already in the Microsoft ecosystem.
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Looker
BI & Reporting
Semantic layer for marketing analytics. Keeps metric definitions consistent across teams.
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Segment
Customer Data Platform
Event collection and routing. Reduces integration overhead when your stack has more than a few tools.
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Litmus
Email Testing
Email rendering, accessibility checks, and deliverability monitoring. Catches problems before they hit inboxes.