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The best Blinkist alternative for product managers is AllthingsPM: 111 free, chapter-by-chapter summaries of the books PMs actually use, linked to an AI PM course and interview prep. Shortform, Headway and getAbstract compared on price and depth.
Read The Mom Test first to learn how to ask customers honest questions, then Continuous Discovery Habits to turn those conversations into a weekly team system. AllthingsPM summarizes both, free, in 32 minutes of reading.
The 7 best creativity books for product managers: Creative Selection, Creativity, Inc., Originals, Sketching User Experiences, The Work of Art, The War of Art and Designing Your Life. All 7 summaries are free on AllthingsPM, about 101 minutes in total.
The 4 design and UX books every product manager should read: The Design of Everyday Things, Don't Make Me Think, Refactoring UI and Sketching User Experiences. Read all 4 summaries free on AllthingsPM in about 66 minutes.
A product management book summaries cheat sheet: the core takeaway from 30 essential PM books, plus the 10 takeaways the whole AllthingsPM library of 111 book summaries keeps repeating, each linked to the full summary.
High Output Management teaches you to run a team like a well tuned production system; The Hard Thing About Hard Things teaches you to make calls when every option is bad. AllthingsPM summarizes both, free, in 39 minutes of reading.
Radical Candor teaches you how to give honest feedback one conversation at a time; Scaling People teaches you to build the documents, rubrics and cadences that make a team run. AllthingsPM summarizes both, free, in 29 minutes of reading.
Shape Up bets on shaped work in fixed six-week cycles with a two-week cool-down and no backlog; Scrum sprints run one month or less against an ordered product backlog. AllthingsPM summarizes Shape Up and Sprint so you can compare them in minutes.
A cheat sheet of the product management frameworks that matter, pulled from the 442 named mental models in AllthingsPM's 111 book summaries, grouped by the job each one does, with a link to the full summary behind every framework.
The 15 best career and personal effectiveness books for product managers, from Deep Work and Essentialism to The Effective Executive and Designing Your Life, each with the one idea to use. Read all 15 summaries free on AllthingsPM in about 210 minutes.
The 14 best communication and influence books for product managers, from Crucial Conversations and Influence to Smart Brevity and Working Backwards, each with the one idea to use at work. Read all 14 summaries free on AllthingsPM in about 202 minutes.
The 8 best user research and product discovery books for PMs, from The Mom Test to Continuous Discovery Habits, each summarized with the one method to use. Read all 8 free on AllthingsPM in about 122 minutes.
The 15 best leadership books for product managers and product leaders, from High Output Management to Empowered, each summarized with the one idea to use at work. Read all 15 summaries free on AllthingsPM in about 305 minutes.
The 14 best startup and growth books for product managers, from The Lean Startup and The Mom Test to The Cold Start Problem and How Brands Grow, each with the one idea to use at work. Read all 14 summaries free on AllthingsPM in about 245 minutes.
The 12 best strategy books for product managers, from Good Strategy Bad Strategy to The Cold Start Problem, each summarized with the one idea to use at work. Read all 12 summaries free on AllthingsPM in about 213 minutes.
The 9 best decision making books for product managers, from Thinking, Fast and Slow to Thinking in Bets and Decisive, each with the one tool to use at work. Read all 9 summaries free on AllthingsPM in about 143 minutes.
Reading is the easy half.
The course grades the other half.
