I find it’s often the case that the best product or business books aren’t explicitly about product or business at all. On the other hand, some of the worst books on these subjects are the ones that try to address them the most directly.

I finished reading René Redzepi’s A Work In Progress earlier this week, which is in no way a business book (to the contrary, at the end of the book his restaurant is deeply in the red). A Work In Progress is a book about a team’s creative process, the combination of sheer effort + serendipity that creativity requires, and an attempt to make that creative process sustainable. It’s the best product book I’ve read in a long time.