Metrics
An annotated collection of 4 books on metrics, spanning 2003 to 2019. Featuring works by Michael Lewis, Alistair Croll & Benjamin Yoskovitz, Amplitude and 1 more — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
Moneyball
Lewis chronicles how Billy Beane's Oakland Athletics exploited systematic mispricings in baseball's talent market by replacing scout intuition with statistical analysis — a case study in what happens when an organisation…
Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster
Croll and Yoskovitz wrote the operational companion to Ries's theoretical argument in The Lean Startup. Where Ries argues that validated learning is the right unit of progress, Croll and Yoskovitz tell you which numbers…
The North Star Playbook: The Guide to Discovering Your Product's North Star
Amplitude's playbook on how to pick a North Star metric — the single measurable number that represents the value a product delivers to its users — and how to structure product strategy around it. The playbook is opiniona…
Outcomes Over Output: Why Customer Behavior Is the Key Metric for Business Success
Seiden's short book makes one argument clearly: the right measure of product success is not what you shipped (output) but what changed in customer behaviour (outcome). The book is deliberately concise — under a hundred p…