Originally published at https://www.sebastienphlix.com. This is my summary of ‘How to win Friends & Influence People’ by Dale Carnegie. My notes are informal and tailored to my own interests at the time of reading. They mostly contain quotes from the book as well as some of my own thoughts. …

100+ summaries of books, articles, and talks about product management to help you learn and improve — For all of 2018, whenever I read a book or article valuable enough for me to take notes from it, I’ve added it to this post. It serves as my reference list and complements my actual note-taking system where I record the knowledge I’ve gained. I compiled a similar list…

… and still stay on good terms with your stakeholders — Imagine you’re a product manager and a co-worker from Marketing comes to you with a feature request. Let’s call her ‘fictitious Annie’. She asks you, “Wouldn’t it be awesome if we built this amazing crypto-blockchain feature into our product?” Well… Your inner voice goes, “Noooooooo…😩 we don’t have time for…

How to make the right decisions and keep your stakeholders in the loop, including the doc template I use at Typeform — Your team could build a million things. At the same time, your job as a PM is to make sure you ship the most valuable product. You want to solve the most important customer problems with the smallest effort possible. It’s pretty straightforward to find new product ideas. Your customers…

Struggling to keep up healthy new habits? Here are 10 tips to help you reach your goals, based on scientific research. — It’s hard to create new habits. We’ve all experienced it. We decide that from next week, we’ll work out 5 times a week. We’ll quit smoking, eat only healthy food, and wake up early to meditate every morning. In the first week, we’re excited and achieve everything just as planned…

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In American football, the situation on the field changes all the time. It’s impossible for a team to plan all their moves in advance — they have no clue how things are going to unfold. …

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My approach to the four levels of reading and note-taking — A few months ago, I realized I have a problem. I read a decent amount of books. But when people asked me ‘so what’s the book about’ I could only recount random bits, and usually didn’t recall all its main arguments. Worse even, a few months down the road, I…