Accolades, Inspiration, Music & Resources

Music for product...ing!

Music Genres

Ready Playlists

I am both surprised and fascinated by the very random range of genres I turn to for audio support while working.

Times of downloading, analyzing, ideating, or strategizing, I find my soundtrack to be one of the following:

• Instrumental Jazz (working that math brain!)

• Lounge / melodic house

• Deep house

• World (my version of it, anyway!)

• Classical

• Operas

Yet, at times of rapid prototyping, documenting, furnishing Confluence pages, Jira epics/tickets, sketching ideas and wireframes, or composing presentations, I find my soundtrack to be one of these:

• House

• Electronic

• Trance

• 80's/90's Metal

• Industrial metal

• Thrash

• Happy pop

And then, there are the tunes reserved for meetings, collab sessions, facilitation, and presentations. Yes, I love to start meetings with a song or waiting music soundtrack. Empirical data has taught me to run creative sessions with a soundtrack, as people relax and let go, delivering their best ideas and their truths! These are a total mashup, as the type of music or specific song is selected to share a story, an emotion, match, and surround a specific moment. Some genre examples are:

• New wave

• Rap/rock

• Funk

• Movie tunes/Soundtracks

• Jazz/Bossa Nova

• World (again, my version of it - see playlist)

• Greek rock/alternative (it is amazing to watch people react to the music when they don't understand the lyrics!!)

Playlists for rapid prototyping, documentation, Confluence pages, Jiras (Mondays/Trellos, etc.), ideation, wireframing, or composing "all-the-things":

• Tech

• hp rock

• Jab Jab Cross (obviously, a workout favorite too!)

• Dance it out! (cheery confidence/mood booster)

Playlists for meetings, collab sessions, facilitation, and presentations:

• My facilitation

• Truss Prac (shared playlist from my time at Truss; I've contributed and still use it!)

• Harry! (did I mention I'm a Potterhead? I'm Ravenclaw, btw!)

• Bearpaw

• Rokies (Greek rock/alternative)

Resources

A list of my go-to resources for all things product!

Books

• Good Services: How to design services that work (Lou Downe)

• Tech & the City (Alessandro Piol and Maria Teresa Cometto)

• Move to the Edge, Declare it Center (Everett Harper)

• INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Marty Cagan)

• EMPOWERED: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products (Marty Cagan)

• Radical Candor

• Thinking Fast & Slow

• The Lean Startup

• Unconscious Bias

• Inclusion on Purpose

• Switch

• Naked Launch

• Escaping the Build Trap

• Product Operations

• Don't make me think

• Working with Emotional Intelligence

• Turning the Flywheel

• The Innovator's Dilemma

Resources

• Coming soon!