These are the books I keep right next to my desk, and the blogs and newsletters I never miss.
Books that have shaped my thinking
- Good Authority: How to Become the Leader Your Team Is Waiting for by Jonathan Raymond
- The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Bungay Stanier
- Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow by Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais, and Ruth Malan
- The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business by Erin Meyer
- Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products by Marty Cagan and Chris Jones
- Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value by Melissa Perri
- Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts by Annie Duke
- No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model by Richard Schwartz
Personal blogs I subscribe to
I am not including big blogs like Daring Fireball or The Verge here. These are (some of) the personal “homes on the web” I like keeping up with. It used to be called a Blogroll back in the day. Neat! I read these blogs via RSS, like a gentleman.
- Simon Willison’s Weblog
- Applied Cartography by Justin Duke
- Canned Dragons by Robert
- Cory Dransfeldt
- Irrational Exuberance by Will Larson
- Rands in Repose by Michael Lopp
- Surfing Complexity by Lorin Hochstein
- This Is Important by Sarah Moir
- Tracy Durnell’s Mind Garden
A few newsletters I really like
I am skipping some obvious ones (like Lenny and Platformer) that everyone already subscribes to.
- Stratechery by Ben Thompson (the business, strategy, and impact of technology)
- Department of Product by Rich Holmes (latest product releases and industry news)
- Culture Study by Anne Helen Petersen (fascinating essays about broad topics related to the culture around us)
- Dense Discovery by Kai Brach (design, tech, sustainability, urbanism, and more)
- Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends by Caitlin Dewey (the best and most interesting internet reading of the week)
- Five things on Friday by James Whatley (more wonderful things to read)
- Transfer Orbit by Andrew Liptak (my favorite newsletter about science fiction, writing, and the future)
- University of Winds by Mita Williams (three links to wonderful and thought-provoking things in the world every week, written by a librarian)
- Scenes with Simon by Simon de la Rouviere (exploring ideas across culture, technology, society, life, and creativity)