The Lean Product Playbook

Sometimes the education you get from a book is worth more than your academic degree.

Well, this is my feeling after reading this book.

“Product” is a valuable skill.

The practice of figuring out explicitly “why” you should build something for a particular audience to address their “underserved” needs in a scientific way is very often overlooked.

We move too fast from problem space to solution space. We want to get our hands dirty and start building as soon as possible. We think what we recognized is a “real” problem and the “right” problem to address without giving it second thoughts.

We confuse assumptions with facts.

We have a bias for action. Not the “right” course of action necessarily.

From this book, you learn a lot of ideas, facts, frameworks, approaches, mindsets, and examples about the “right” course of action before, while, and after building a product.

It took me +500 highlights and ~30 hours to finish! Many things “unknown unknown” for me. By that, I mean things I didn’t know I didn’t know!

Dan Olsen This is outstanding work!

Happy reading! 📙