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Last edited 125 days ago by mac halliwell
Welcome to my professional toolkit. Your go-to resource hub for leveling up your game in APIs, product, and technical writing. No matter your path here, this curated collection is designed to equip you with everything you need to excel as a leader in these three spaces: API, product, and technical writing.
**This list prioritizes quality over quantity. Everything is Google-able nowadays, and there’s a lot of bad strategies out there. Nothing on this list is something that I merely “Googled” to find. Every single piece of information is an actionable resource that I have used in my career.**

BLOGS
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Extremely well thought out articles on the foundational concepts of product management and being a product manager.
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BOOKS
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The Lean Startup
This book by Eric Ries presents a scientific approach to creating and managing startups. PMs will benefit from understanding how to adapt to changes rapidly and efficiently, learning to drive product development with maximum innovation and minimum waste.
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Inspired
Marty Cagan provides a masterclass on how to structure and staff product teams for success. It's invaluable for PMs aiming to foster a strong product-focused culture.
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Cracking the PM Interview
It offers insights into acing product management interviews at top tech companies. PMs will find valuable advice on interview preparation, and understanding what interviewers are looking for.
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The Lean Product Playbook
This book provides a step-by-step guide to apply Lean Startup ideas. PMs can learn how to test new ideas and improve existing products with this iterative approach.
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Don’t Make Me Think
Steve Krug's book is a guide to understanding the principles of intuitive navigation and information design. PMs will gain insights on creating user-friendly products.
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Never Split the Difference
Chris Voss shares negotiation techniques from his experience as an FBI hostage negotiator. PMs can improve their negotiation and persuasion skills, essential for stakeholder management.
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Radical Candor
Kim Scott provides a framework for managing teams with empathy and clarity. PMs can learn how to build trust with their teams, give constructive feedback, and achieve results.
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Cracking the PM Career
Jackie Bavaro provides a roadmap for advancing in a product management career. It’s essential for PMs at any career stage seeking to navigate their career progression effectively.
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The Making of a Manager
Julie Zhuo shares her learnings from becoming a rookie manager at Facebook. PMs can gain insights into leadership, managing others, and making critical decisions.
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Empowered
Marty Cagan and Chris Jones explain how the best product companies approach technology and empower product teams. PMs can learn how to transform their teams into engines of innovation.
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A Beautiful Constraint calls for a more widespread capability for constraint-driven problem solving and provides the framework to achieve that.
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With this book you’ll learn to design adaptable content that frees you from the tyranny of an ever increasing array of devices.
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This is a sparkling, eye-opening, and utterly original book by one of the world's leading cognitive scientists.
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In this refreshingly entertaining how-to guide, bestselling author and world-traveling success coach, Jen Sincero, serves up 27 bitesized chapters full of hilariously inspiring stories, sage advice, easy exercises, and the occasional swear word, helping you to: Identify and change the self-sabotaging beliefs and behaviors that stop you from getting what you want.
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Drawing on unprecedented access to a vast array of primary sources and interviews with nearly every influential design leader—including Douglas Engelbart, Steve Jobs, and Don Norman—Katz reveals design to be the missing link in Silicon Valley's ecosystem of innovation.
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Transitioning from Technical Expert to Management is easy. Going from Technical Expert to Successful Manager is hard. You don’t want a transition; you need a transformation in order to succeed. That transformation takes you from Technical to Exceptional.
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In an effort to dismantle the unconscious social bias against women in the industry, Wheeler interviews professionals like Brianna Wu (founder, Giant Spacekat), Angie Chang (founder, Women 2.0), Keren Elazari (TED speaker and cybersecurity expert), Katie Cunningham (Python educator and developer), and Miah Johnson (senior systems administrator) about the obstacles they have overcome to do what they love. Their inspiring personal stories are interspersed with tech-focused career advice.
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In his book DITA Metrics 101, Mark's cost models offer a framework to determine the savings possible with enterprise-wide DITA implementation.
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Written as a heartwarming contemporary parable, this book points you beyond worn-out fads and flavor-of-the-month management techniques to the strategies that will make you a truly outstanding leader.
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​No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving--every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results.
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UX content strategist Torrey Podmajersky provides strategies for converting, engaging, supporting, and re-attracting users. You’ll use frameworks and patterns for content, methods to measure the content’s effectiveness, and processes to create the collaboration necessary for success.
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In Everybody Writes, top marketing veteran Ann Handley gives expert guidance and insight into the process and strategy of content creation, production and publishing, with actionable how-to advice designed to get results.
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Microcopy consists of small pieces of text like headings, hint texts, placeholders, summaries, and instructions throughout a website or app. These little bits of content often get overlooked to the detriment of the application or website you’re building, which is tragic since they make the difference between products that fade into obscurity and those that go on to become extremely successful.
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WEBSITES
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productmanagement.world
Huge knowledge graph of product concepts.
🧠Product
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A comprehensive view of all stakeholders creating a programmable API economy
🧩APIs
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Sriram Krishnan's blog
Incredible collection of RAW internal memos.
🧠Product
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Find The Right Product Framework & Technique. No More Guesswork.
🧠Product
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There’s an AI For That
Search through over 5000 AI tools to find the perfect one for your tast. Updated daily.
🤯Artificial Intelligence
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productmanager.jobs
Highly curated PM job board. Updated all the time.
🧠Product
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✍🏽Technical Writing
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✍🏽Technical Writing
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✍🏽Technical Writing
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✍🏽Technical Writing
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TOOLS
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🤯Artificial Intelligence
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🧠Product
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🧠Product
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🧠Product
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🧠Product
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✍🏽Technical Writing
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✍🏽Technical Writing
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✍🏽Technical Writing
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✍🏽Technical Writing
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PODCASTS
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🧠Product
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🧩APIs
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🧠Product
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🧠Product
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✍🏽Technical Writing
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YOUTUBE
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🧠Product
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🧠Product
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🧠Product
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🧠Product
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🧠Product
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🧠Product
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🧠Product
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🧠Product
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NEWSLETTERS
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Examples of product portfolios in UX, product management, consulting, and more
🧠Product
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LISTS
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SPECIFIC ARTICLES
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Good PM Bad PM
🧠Product
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🤯Artificial Intelligence
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The article explores the growing concern of API sprawl, where the proliferation of application programming interfaces across different services poses challenges for management and security in the digital economy.
🧩APIs
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✍🏽Technical Writing
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ONLINE COMMUNITIES
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💼Leadership
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✍🏽Technical Writing
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🧩APIs
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🧠Product
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🧑🏻‍💻Tech
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🧠Product
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🧑🏻‍💻Tech
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🧠Product
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🧠Product
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🧩APIs
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🆙Startups
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✍🏽Technical Writing
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✍🏽Technical Writing
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