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An annotated collection of 3 books on interviews, spanning 2009 to 2021. Featuring works by Peter Seibel, Richard Banfield, Teresa Torres — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.

Coders at Work

Peter Seibel, 2009 · Apress

Fifteen long-form interviews with legendary programmers — Knuth, Norvig, Frances Allen, Crockford, Zawinski, Fitzpatrick, among others — conducted by a programmer who knows enough to ask the right follow-up questions. Th…

Product Leadership: How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful Teams

Richard Banfield, Martin Eriksson & Nate Walkingshaw, 2017 · O'Reilly Media

A collection of interviews and case studies across senior product leaders — Cagan, Norton, Harding, and many others — organised around the practical problems product leaders face. The format (interviews rather than a sin…

Torres turns the vague practice of "talking to users" into a weekly rhythm: interviews every week, opportunity solution trees, assumptions framed as testable hypotheses, and a discipline for getting from conversations to…