Ask HN: Is it normal to fall out of love with coding?

Re:Ask HN: Is it normal to fall out of love with coding? by padpnut on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @03:37AM (#18863259)

Got any recommended books on product management?

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Re:Ask HN: Is it normal to fall out of love with coding? by svendbt on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @06:42AM (#18864001)

Here's a list of books I have compiled as a fairly fresh PM (just getting started with the reading). The intention with this list is to built up a good mental tool box to succeed in product management (coming from SW+chip design).

PM:

  - Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love

  - The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback

  - Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value

  - What Customers Want: Using Outcome-Driven Innovation to Create Breakthrough Products and Service

  - Strategize: Product Strategy and Product Roadmap Practices for the Digital Age

Marketing:

  - Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers

  - Brand Identity Breakthrough: How to Craft Your Company's Unique Story to Make Your Products Irresistible

  - Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

  - The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition

Organization / Business

  - Originals: How Non-conformists Change the World

  - Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company

  - Lovability: How to Build a Business That People Love and Be Happy Doing It

  - The Thank You Economy

Personal

  - Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery

  - TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking

  - Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
  - How To Win Friends and Influence People

  - Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

  - Thinking in Systems: A Primer

  - Thinking, Fast and Slow

Also, blogs:

  - Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
  - Aha! Blog
  - Inside Intercom
  - Mind the Product
  - PMHQ blog
  - Silicon Valley Product Group
  - The Accidental Product Manager
  - The Product Bistro
  - The Product Guy
  - The Secret Product Manager Handbook

Edit: Formatting

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Re:Ask HN: Is it normal to fall out of love with coding? by keviv on Thursday January 10, 2019 @02:12PM (#18876974)

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

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Re:Ask HN: Is it normal to fall out of love with coding? by Antoninus on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @04:43PM (#18869235)

Writing Great Specifications by Gherkin

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