shelf
Books & podcasts
Book recommendations
Book★★★★★Building AI-Powered Products
Marily Nika
Written for PMs building AI products, not ML engineers. The best place to start.
Best for: AI PM craft
Open in Apple Books
Book★★★★★AI Engineering
Chip Huyen
Enough technical depth to hold your own with AI engineers on evals, RAG, agents, and cost.
Best for: Technical fluency
Open in Apple Books
Book★★★★★Building Agentic AI
Sinan Ozdemir
Beyond chatbots: agents that reason, plan, and execute workflows.
Best for: Agent architecture
Open in Apple Books
Book★★★★★The AI Product Playbook
Marily Nika & Diego Granados
The strategy layer: frameworks for launching AI products and operating as an AI PM.
Best for: AI product leadership
Open in Apple Books
Book★★★★½Co-Intelligence
Ethan Mollick
AI as collaborator, not software. Great mental models for designing AI experiences.
Best for: Human-AI product thinking
Open in Apple Books
Book★★★★½Power and Prediction
Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans & Avi Goldfarb
Asks how cheap prediction changes a whole system, not where to sprinkle AI.
Best for: AI strategy
Open in Apple Books
Book★★★★½The Art of AI Product Development
Janna Lipenkova
End-to-end: strategy, implementation, and governance.
Best for: End-to-end AI product development
Open in Apple Books
Book★★★★½Agentic AI in Enterprise
Sumit Ranjan, Divya Chembachere & Lanwin Lobo
Enterprise reality: governance, security, scaling. Save it for after the others.
Best for: Enterprise agentic AI
Open in Apple Books
Book★★★★☆Designing Machine Learning Systems
Chip Huyen
What happens once AI ships: pipelines, monitoring, feedback loops, drift.
Best for: ML systems literacy
Open in Apple Books
Book★★★★★Continuous Discovery Habits
Teresa Torres
AI makes building easier, so deciding what to build matters more. Discovery still wins.
Best for: Product discovery
Open in Apple Books
Podcasts
PodcastLenny's Podcast
Lenny Rachitsky
The one show I never skip. Product, growth, and how AI is changing the job.
Best for: Product management, growth, AI product strategy
Open in Apple Podcasts
PodcastLatent Space
swyx & Alessio Fanelli
Deep enough on AI engineering that I actually learn how the models work.
Best for: Agentic AI, AI engineering, model architecture
Open in Apple Podcasts
PodcastNo Priors
Elad Gil & Sarah Guo
Where the frontier is heading, from two investors who see everything first.
Best for: Frontier AI, startups, agents, market strategy
Open in Apple Podcasts
PodcastThe Product Podcast
Product School
Short, practical conversations about product leadership and enterprise AI.
Best for: Product leadership and enterprise AI
Open in Apple Podcasts
PodcastProduct Thinking
Melissa Perri
Melissa keeps me honest about strategy and how to structure a product org.
Best for: Product strategy, leadership, org design
Open in Apple Podcasts
PodcastHow I AI
Claire Vo
Real workflows, real tools. I steal at least one tactic per episode.
Best for: Practical AI workflows and real-world use cases
Open in Apple Podcasts
PodcastPractical AI
Daniel Whitenack & Chris Benson
Applied AI from LLMs to MLOps, without the hype.
Best for: Applied AI, LLMs, MLOps, implementation
Open in Apple Podcasts
PodcastThe AI Daily Brief
Nathaniel Whittemore
My catch-up on the day's AI news. Fast and to the point.
Best for: Fast-moving AI news and industry updates
Open in Apple Podcasts
Podcasta16z Podcast
a16z
How AI business models, infrastructure, and investing fit together.
Best for: AI business models, infrastructure, investing
Open in Apple Podcasts
PodcastThe Growth Podcast
Aakash Gupta
Growth, careers, and AI from someone who's done the work.
Best for: Product, growth, careers, AI
Open in Apple Podcasts