Books & tools worth your time.

The best practical book on product discovery I've read. It forces you to rethink how you structure customer conversations and treat discovery as a continuous discipline rather than a project phase. The opportunity solution tree alone is worth the price.

Strong on organizational design and what it actually means to build a product culture. Some parts lean idealistic, and it's easier to apply at a greenfield company than inside a legacy org. But the framework for empowered product teams is solid and battle-tested.

Essential reading for anyone building financial products. Understanding how people actually think and feel about money — not how economists assume they do — changes everything about how you design features, write copy, and frame value. Read it slowly.

Finally, a PM tool that respects your time. The keyboard-first interface, clean design, and sensible defaults make it genuinely fast to use. Switched from Jira 18 months ago and haven't looked back once. The cycles feature alone is better than Jira sprints in every way.