Product

“Product” is a broad tagging hub in Kyle’s notes — the umbrella under which his product-craft reading and the more specific Product Management, Playbook — Product, and Best-in-Class Tech Stacks pages hang. The most grounded synthesis attached to it comes from Product Led Growth — The End User Era, where the product itself becomes the center of gravity: “the first interaction with your company or product is typically through the product itself,” sales reorganizes into Customer Success, and even the website and signup flow are treated as “part of the product.” Oh Snap, It’s Here supplies the consumer-side angle — the “product-vs-experience distinction” and what makes a consumer app feel indispensable.

The page also collects a “Quick Capture” reading log from Kyle’s June 29th, 2021 Roam daily-note — a cluster of product-craft sources (Ken Norton’s “bring the donuts” essays, Paul Graham’s maker’s-schedule and startup-ideas pieces, Joel Spolsky, The Innovator’s Solution, The Hard Thing About Hard Things) saved to explore the discipline.

Where this appears

• Product Led Growth — The End User Era — the product as center of gravity in a PLG company
• Oh Snap, It’s Here — the product-vs-experience distinction; what makes a consumer app indispensable
• Product Management — the practitioner discipline; shares the same June 29th, 2021 Quick Capture reading cluster
• Playbook — Product — the playbook companion page
• Best-in-Class Tech Stacks — the tooling counterpart
• Playbooks — the broader playbooks hub

Best-in-Class Tech Stack

The product branch of the Best-in-Class Tech Stacks sourcing map — the operator network and the framework Kyle uses to track product leaders.

Operator network

• Mamuna Oladipo at Shopify — LinkedIn
• Vinod Ramachandran at Affirm — LinkedIn
• Chirag Shah at MongoDB — LinkedIn

Tracking framework

The Roam capture scaffolds two lenses for mapping product talent and tooling (branches still empty):

• Individuals: Existing Leadership (Accessible · Aspirational) and Rising Stars (Accessible · Aspirational)
• Companies: Overall and Time-boxed

Positions

Chief Product Officer (CPO) · Product Manager · Director of Product · Head of Product

Quick Capture links — June 29th, 2021

Reading-list links from Kyle’s June 29th, 2021 Roam daily-note “Quick Capture” log.

• https://dunn.medium.com/get-one-thing-right-89390244c553
• https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2012/07/09/software-inventory/
• https://www.bringthedonuts.com/essays/how-to-work-with-software-engineers.html
• https://www.bringthedonuts.com/essays/productmanager.html
• https://www.bringthedonuts.com/essays/leading-cross-functional-teams.html
• https://www.bringthedonuts.com/ - Best-in-Class Tech Stacks
• http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
• http://paulgraham.com/ds.html
• http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html
• https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2618.The_Innovator_s_Solution?ac=1&from_search=true
• https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18176747-the-hard-thing-about-hard-things

Related: Best-in-Class Tech Stacks, Playbook — Product, Playbooks, Product Management