Foundations
An annotated collection of 4 books & papers on foundations, spanning 1950 to 2013. Featuring works by Paul R. Halmos, John D. Gould & Clayton Lewis, Paul A. Samuelson & William D. Nordhaus and 1 more — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
Measure Theory
A graduate-level textbook that most product directors will never read cover to cover and should still know exists. Measure theory is the mathematical foundation under probability, statistics and any rigorous claim you ma…
Designing for Usability: Key Principles and What Designers Think
Gould and Lewis's 1985 paper is the founding document of usability engineering — three principles that remain the practical minimum for designing interactive systems: early focus on users and tasks, empirical measurement…
Macroeconomía (19th Spanish edition of Economics)
The Spanish volume of Samuelson and Nordhaus's Economics, the most widely read introductory textbook in the history of the discipline. For a product director its value is not the equations but the framework: GDP, inflati…
Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
Wheelan's book is a popular statistics primer for readers who survived a bad statistics class. He covers the fundamentals — distributions, correlation, regression, significance, sampling — with enough examples that the f…