My favorite resources

If you ask my wife, she’ll confirm this fact about me: I’m quite picky and particular.

I love trying new things out, but if they don’t work for me, I’m quick to make a decision and move on. If I don’t like a book within a few pages, I’ll just stop reading. If a product isn’t doing it for me, I’ll cancel my subscription.

So—and not that anyone asked for it—I’ve decided to share a bunch of resources that have passed my pickiness. These are the products, sources of information, and books that I trust, and therefore, would highly recommend to you.

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My very trusted tech stack:

From my full-time job as a Director of Product, to running this newsletter as a solo entrepreneur, and even the personal apps I use every day, here’s my product stack.

Since the list is longish, and because I can create a nice table with it, I’ve put my stack together in Notion. You can view it here 👇

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My favorite sources of information:

You are what you eat…that includes the content and info you feed yourself.

So, what do I feed myself to stay up to speed with the stuff I care about in the world?

Here are my very very top picks. If you even start following just one of these, I guarantee you will feel—and become—sharper.

• Product

  • Lenny’s Newsletter, by

    Lenny Rachitsky

  • Lenny’s Podcast, by

    Lenny Rachitsky

• Growth

  • Product Growth, by

    Aakash Gupta

  • Growth Unhinged, by

    Kyle Poyar

• Startups

  • Category Pirates, by

    Category Pirates 🏴‍☠️

  • OpenSourceCEO, by Bill Kerr

• Business

  • Not Boring, by

    Packy McCormick

  • The Generalist, by

    Mario Gabriele

  • Acquired Podcast, by Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

  • Doomberg, by

    Doomberg

• Economy

  • Noapinion, by

    Noah Smith

• Politics/World

  • Letters from an American, by

    Heather Cox Richardson

  • Making Sense Podcast, by Sam Harris

• Culture

  • Feed Me, by

    Emily

  • Digital Native, by

    Rex Woodbury

  • The Prism, by

    Gurwinder

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Books I couldn’t recommend enough:

My reading frequency has always fluctuated over the years. Sometimes I read pretty intensely, other times I drop off for a while.

And when I think about what’s always preceded solid bouts of reading, it’s finishing a book that changed me in some way.

So, here are some of those (non-fiction) books:

• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari

• Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling, Matthew Dicks

• I Will Teach You To Be Rich, Ramit Sethi

• Letters From A Stoic, Seneca

• Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson

• The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Bill Bryson

• Good Strategy / Bad Strategy, Richard Rumelt

• Never Split The Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It, Chriss Voss

• In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, Michael Pollan

• Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, Steven Pinker

• Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman

• The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake, Steven Novella

• The Charism Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism, Olivia Fox Cabane

• Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant, Kim Marbourgne

• Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, James Nestor

• Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams, Matthew Walker

• Hidden Genius: The Secret Ways of Thinking That Power the World’s Most Successful People, Polina Marinova Pompliano

• Principles: Life & Work, Ray Dalio

• The End Of The World Is Just The Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization, Peter Zeihan

the bookshelf with (most of) my favorites

And life is too short just to read non-fiction. So, I’m always reading at least a few just for fun books throughout the year. I’d suggest the same—don’t be boring.

Here are a few that I loved:

• The Silo Trilogy (Wool, Shift, Dust), Hugh Howey

• The Wager, David Grann

• Dark Matter, Blake Crouch

• This Perfect Day, Ira Levin

• The Magus, John Fowles

• Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut

• The Stand, Steven King

• The Secret History, Donna Tart

• 1984, George Orwell

• Wayward Pines Trilogy (Pines, Wayward, The Last Town), Black Crouch

• Under The Dome, Steven King

• Ready Player One, Ernest Cline

• The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood

• The Innocent Man, John Grisham

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