Top resources for product managers

As product management becomes an increasing popular career, this space has become saturated with content. Here, I filter out the noise and share the essential readings on the fundamentals of product management, plus some quality resources about software business, entrepreneurship, and the internet economy in general.
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Product management fundamentals
- The foundations of a product management career - Marty Cagan summarized the fundamental questions (and answers) about the role of a PM, what responsibilities are involved, and what it takes to be a good one.
- Hacking your product leader career - by Gibson Biddle, accompanying video of workshop here
- Shape up - Basecamp's unique process of designing and shipping faster
- Good product manager, bad product manager - a classic piece by Ben Horowitz. It's written over 20 years ago so take what's relevant to you today
- How to write a good product requirement document - Martin Cagan, Silicon Valley Product Group
- Minimum viable product manager - Brandon Chu maps the set of skills to focus (and not focus on) for a generalist PM
- How to hire a product manager - Ken Norton's classic piece on the role of PM and how to find a good one
- How to develop product judgement - Intercom's Paul Adams breaks down how to develop product judgement through direct user engagement

Product strategy- DHM model - Gibson Biddle on using DHM "delight customers in hard-to-copy, margin-enhancing ways" to formulate product strategy
- The product strategy stack - Ravi Mehta's crisp outline of the product strategy stack and using "narratives, commitments, tasks" instead of OKRs
- Derisk product strategy - Jeff Gothelf on giving strategies a hypothesis and clear OKRs for success, giving it space for agility
- The conservation of attractive profits - Using Netflix as a model to demonstrate how modularizing and commoditizing an integrated system captures new value
- Aggregation theory - Ben Thompson's classic: how aggregators dominate a market by commoditizing suppliers and aggregating all users

Go to market
- Introduction to product-led growth (PLG) - Unusual Venture's field guide on whether PLG is right for your company and how to get started with a self-serve experience
- PLG primer - OpenView's primer on the history & pillars of PLG, with company examples and key metrics to measure success
- The Enterprise Approach to Product-led Growth - Unusual Venture applies PLG to enterprise and traditional sales-led organizations
- Building self serve at Notion and Dropbox - First Round Review interviews Kate Taylor on sales & product-led GTM, pricing, onboarding, and CX
- The modern tech stack for PLG companies - Pocus breaks down the tech stack that supports PLG companies

Product design
- Product design = mission, vision, architecture - approaching design as a multi-layered process, from outcome to visual by Intercom's Paul Adams
- Using game design to design delightful products - Superhuman's Rahul Vohra explains how to make software that feels like play
- Building for power users - how to build software power users that satisfies the need for configuration while is still fun to use
- How to work with designers - Julie Zhuo (ex-Facebook) outlines how to best leverage designers' value

Product market fit
- Where to Go After Product-Market Fit - an interview with Marc Andreessen
- Zero to product market fit - getting from 0 to 1 by Andrew Chen
- The only thing that matters - Marc Andreessen's infamous essay about why market matters the most
- How to quantitatively build a PMF engine - Superhuman's product market fit engine