The Websites I Follow

The Books I Read and <3

Name Written by Notes
Profit First Mike Michalowicz
The Mom Test Rob Fitzpatrick
Jobs to be Done Wunker Stephen
No Rules Rules Reed Hastings
The Psychology of Money Housel Morgan
Good to Great Jim Collins
Radical Candor Kim Malone Scott
Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers Gabriel Weinberg
Rework Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hanson
Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value Teresa Torres
Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters Richard P. Rumelt
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future Peter Thiel
Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon Colin Bryar
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers Geoffrey A Moore
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness Eric Jorgenson
Kanban and Scrum - making the most of both Henrik Kniberg
How to Take Smart Notes Sönke Ahrens
The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You Julie Zhuo
Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable Seth Godin
The Hard Thing About Hard Things Ben Horowitz
Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity Frank Slootman
The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels Michael D Watkins
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones James Clear
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk Al Ries
Impact Mapping: Making a Big Impact with Software Products and Projects Gojko Adzic
Build It: The Rebel Playbook for World Class Employee Engagement Glenn Elliot
Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience Jeff Gothelf
Practical Empathy İndi Young
Badass: Making Users Awesome Kathy Sierra
User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product Jeff Patton
The Lean Startup Eric Ries
Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition Lyssa Adkins
Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction while Embracing Uncertainty Todd C. Lombardo
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products Nir Eyal
Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love Marty Cagan
Thick Face, Black Heart : The Asian Path to Thriving, Winning and Succeeding Chu Chin-Ning
How Google Works Eric Schmidt
7 Habits of Highly Effective People Stephen R Covey
Build Tony Fadell https://www.gokhankantar.tech/build
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement Eliyahu M. Goldratt https://www.gokhankantar.tech/the-goal
Thinking in Bets Annie Duke https://www.gokhankantar.tech/thinking-in-bets

AI

My Journey with AI

The Articles I Read and <3

# Name Written by Notes
1 **Who’s Got the Monkey?** by William Oncken, Jr., and Donald L. Wass
2 On agency by **Henrik Karlsson and Johanna Karlsson** To be agentic, you have to really look at the problem and at the solution space and accept the responsibility of learning what is necessary to make the problem go away.
3 Ira Glass on Storytelling 3 newsletter like youtube video good for motivation at what you are about to do
4 Strategies for learning Andy Masley -Act! Favorable conditions might never come!
-Learning to accept and move away from sunk costs earlier would have been useful.
-Spaced repetition, diligent note taking, and writing to learn are the three systems I use that help me test my learning.
5 How to build your PM second brain with ChatGPT Amir Klein use the projects section of chatGPT Claude or Gemini
how to use lovable for protyping an idea
6 The Cook and the Chef: Musk’s Secret Sauce Tim Urban 5 yaşındaki çocuklar 25 yaşına kadar takip ediliyor ve olağanüstü yaratıcılıga sahip oranların oranı yüzde 95 den yüzde 2 ye düşüyor.

Okullar ve ezber sistemi fabrikalar için işçi yetiştirmeye evrilmişlerdir.

Şef olmak veya aşçı olmak. Şef olmanın muhteşemliği..

Bunun için 1- bir şey bilmediğini Kabul et (sınırlarını kaldır kaç yaşında olursan ol) 2- kimsenin de bir şey bilmedigini farket (sınırlarını kaldır kaç yaşında olursan ol) Epiphany 3) You’re playing Grand Theft Life

ne yapmak istedigini bul, hedefini belirle, gerçekleri gör ve bunlar için bir strateji yap. Bu bir döngüdür ve değişimle değişir.

Şef. Hikayedeki çocuk. Şef, Kendinden Nefret Eden Aşçı'dır — akıl dışı korku olmadan. | | 7 | The only thing that matters | Marc Andreessen | Market matters most. ( not the team, not the product ) | | 8 | If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good. | Paul Buchheit | What’s the right approach to new products? Pick three key attributes or features, get those things very, very right, and then forget about everything else. Those three attributes define the fundamental essence and value of the product—the rest is noise. For example, the original iPod was: (1) small enough to fit in your pocket, (2) had enough storage to hold many hours of music and (3) easy to sync with your Mac (most hardware companies can’t make software, so I bet the others got this wrong). That’s it | | 9 | How to Do Great Work | Paul Graham | Link | | 10 | Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule | Paul Graham | | | 11 | Why you should work much harder RIGHT NOW | Tyler Cowen | WORK HARDER! | | 12 | The art of hiring: insights from Khosla Ventures, Airbnb, Ramp and Traba | Fiona LeeFormer Content Lead, RampLuke O'NeillContributing Writer | Not read fully yet | | 13 | Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager | Ben Horowitz | | | 14 | Why and how do founding entrepreneurs bond with their ventures? Neural correlates of entrepreneurial and parental bonding | Tom Lahti, Marja-Liisa Halko, Necmi Karagozoglu, Joakim Wincent | The study provides biological/neural evidence that the metaphor "my venture is my baby" is more than just figurative — entrepreneurs' brains literally respond to their ventures in ways remarkably similar to how parents' brains respond to their children, with both the benefits (motivation, reward) and the costs (impaired judgment, anxiety) that come with such intense affective bonds. | | 15 | Architect behind Googleplex now says it's 'dangerous' to work at such a posh office | Bobby Allyn | If an employer is trying to foster creativity, "you don't want an overly comfortable workplace. You shouldn't have sleep pods everywhere," he said. "Creative work doesn't happen in a condition of luxury. If you have that much luxury, you naturally want to fall asleep.” | | 16 | https://nabeelqu.co/what-makes-art-great | Nabeel S. Qureshi | And yet, though I've pointed out many features of great art, there is still some mystery to it. This is, I think, the link between art and life. There's a certain weight to someone having had an experience — or having imagined something — and then having written that down in this way. It's the type of weight you feel when a grandparent tells you a story that's important to them, or when someone shares something especially vulnerable that happened to them.10 This is, ultimately, why I think human art will continue and even improve in the age of AI: AI cannot experience things for you. Art, at its best, is in part about these most spiritually weighty human experiences, and this component of greatness is not reducible to any formal factors, because it is life itself. | | 17 | Product vs Feature Teams | Marty Cagan | |

The Podcasts I Listened and <3

# Name Notes
1 [**The one question that saves product careers Matt LeMay**](https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/the-one-question-that-saves-product-careers-matt-lemay)
2 [**Why ChatGPT will be the next big growth channel (and how to capitalize on it) Brian Balfour**](https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/why-chatgpt-will-be-the-next-big-growth-channel-brian-balfour)
3 Sam Altman's Method for Clear Thinking buy a notebook (small&rippable, and a pen- carry on always)
4 [**Lessons on product sense, AI, the first mile experience, and the messy middle Scott Belsky (Adobe)**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCKosdV1J-8)
5 [**Why LinkedIn is turning PMs into AI-powered "full stack builders” Tomer Cohen (LinkedIn CPO)**](https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/why-linkedin-is-replacing-pms)
6 [**The 100-person AI lab that became Anthropic and Google's secret weapon Edwin Chen (Surge AI)**](https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/surge-ai-edwin-chen)
7 [**Why humans are AI’s biggest bottleneck (and what’s coming in 2026) Alexander Embiricos (OpenAI Codex Product Lead)**](https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/why-humans-are-ais-biggest-bottleneck)
8 [**How to sell your ideas and rise within your company Casey Winters, Eventbrite**](https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-to-sell-your-ideas-and-rise-within?utm_source=publication-search)
9 [**How to unlock your product leadership skills Ken Norton, Ex-Google**](https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-to-unlock-your-product-leadership?utm_source=publication-search)
10 Head of Growth (Anthropic): “Claude is growing itself at this point” claude code, Claude co-work, skills
11 [**The design process is dead. Here’s what’s replacing it. Jenny Wen (head of design at Claude)**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh8bcBIAAFo&t=4349s)
12 [**Unconventional building advice for the new AI era Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures)**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCd9ykretlg)
13 [**Half of PMs are becoming dinosaurs—and the best ones are most at risk Nikhyl Singhal**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUohoaC8_Hs)
14 [**Chatbots are not the final interface: OpenAI’s Head of Design on what’s next Ian Silber**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV0hy6NET-U)
15 [**90 minutes of unfiltered product advice from Snap and Discord’s product chief Peter Sellis**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97LRJUUPy_w)
16 [**The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now Molly Graham**](https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/the-grief-loneliness-and-burnout)
17 [**OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT: We’re entering a new era of AI (again) Tibo Sottiaux**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM-C3JqCXBk)
Open AI dots
The majority of things in the internet will be done by agents
18 [**Why every company now needs to think and operate like a lab team Josh Woodward (VP Google Labs)**](https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/why-every-company-now-needs-to-think)

Videos on youtube etc.

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