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Tom

tgagor@bookwyrm.social

Joined 2 weeks, 6 days ago

I’m a passionate day-to-day DevOps practitioner. My bookshelf: gagor.pro/bookshelf/

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Currently Reading

Melissa Perri: Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value (2018, O'Reilly Media)

To stay competitive in today’s market, organizations need to adopt a culture of customer-centric practices …

This was the first book on Product Management I’ve ever read, and I’m glad I started with such a solid one.

In my daily work, I collaborate closely with product owners, and I wanted to better understand their role: How do they work? What are their priorities? And how can our collaboration be more effective? What I appreciated most about this book is how clearly it structures the profession of Product Management and breaks down its many facets. More here: gagor.pro/book/2025/escaping-the-build-trap/

Timothy Ferriss: The 4-Hour Work Week (2007)

The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9–5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich (2007) is a …

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This book’s title feels like a joke at first, but once you start reading, you realize Ferriss is absolutely serious about it. He breaks things down step by step, challenging the default assumptions about work and life.
More here: gagor.pro/book/2025/the-4-hour-work-week/

William L. Ury, Roger Fisher, Bruce Patton: Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In (Paperback, 1991, Penguin)

Describes a method of negotiation that isolates problems, focuses on interests, creates new options, and …

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I’ve often heard about the “Harvard Negotiation” method, but I hadn’t read Getting to Yes until recently. To my surprise, much of the content felt familiar - not because I had read it before, but because I had already been using many of its principles, unknowingly picked up from other sources.
More here: gagor.pro/book/2025/getting-to-yes/