Lenny's Podcast

“I don't know if you've read Exhalation, which is a set of like science fiction stories”

“Another that's maybe more kind of standard in PM”

“you should read The Throne of Glass or A Court of Uh Thorns and Roses”

“you should read The Throne of Glass or A Court of Uh Thorns and Roses”

“Naval Robicon's Almanac, I remember reading that about two years ago. Maybe a year and a half ago. Um and It was like kind of In this moment where I wasn't Like I was sure I wanted to do content”

“is that a book or is that one of his lines? No, it's uh it's a new book”

“You are the author of The power of pull. I've got the book right here”

“the four volume Nature of Order series by Christopher Alexander”

“One I read recently. And is a brief history of intelligence. It's this really Cool book that Walks through the history of like basically brains and five key moments”

“Another one is story of your life and other is this dead Chiang. This is maybe my favorite sci fi book of all time. It's a bunch of short stories”

“There's like one non fiction book that really It was like right my favorite ever. Four thousand Weeks”

“Is there a specific sci fi you think about that's most influenced you? neuromancer and then, you know, the original like Star Trek”

“Your kid is gonna get older and you're gonna read the like lightning thief books and you'll get it”

“two or three books that you find yourself recommending most to other people. I'm gonna butcher the title a bit. Uh, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia and When Genius Failed”

“When Jesus failed is about the fall and the rise and fall of long-term capital management in late 1998 caused like one of the crashes or nearly averted crashes”

“And then my third one, which I actually give to a lot of consumer PMs. is um Einstein's Dreams by Alan Leitman, the physicist from MIT”

“so Cat's Cradle has been A fun fun recommendation that And a copy. I bought many friends before”

“and then second is the war of art. By Steven Pressfield”

“The two that are so obvious are high output management. Which is like that is as good as it ever was”

“And then Ben's book, you know, Hard Things is it was the first emotionally honest book about business that was ever written”

“Conquests and Cultures is my very favorite book ... Conquests have led to culture change in different societies around the world”

“Seven Powers, you mentioned, um, is actually just an awesome book. It's I think it's a very intellectual distillation about kind of, you know, motes and business theory and compounding advantages”

“One book I really recommend to people is Barbarian Days by William Finnegan”

“Another book that I might recommend as a as like a book that people should read Um I really love uh Anna Karenina”

“now I'm reading the Power Broker, which is like set the Set the new precedent for a long”

“And he's doing one of Wolf Hall, I think, or he did one of Wolf Hall, which is the Hillary Mantel book”

“Although I will say I have I do love The design of everyday things. I think that's like such a classic”

“So there's two. There's one about it's like that like I read in undergrad”

“and the other one I love for founders is just”

“I imagine you've read Scaling People by Claire Hughes Johnson. Yep. Butter. Yeah”

“not to be cliched. But the hard thing about hard things, I still think is the best book written about product management”

“the best book anyone's ever recommended to me to read, which I now recommend to others. Um is the purpose driven church. By apostle Rick Warren”

“and the last one is if you're looking for kind of like uh fiction or fantasy, which is where I tend to go in the evening”

“One personal one I really like How to raise an adult? So I I'm a mom. I think a lot about What is a things that I want to instill in in in my kids. And that book is really helpful for describing, we're not trying to raise children, we're trying to raise adults”

“I think of this book that uh everyone always references with the slinky on the front. Speaking in systems. Yeah”

“Into thin air. John Crackauer”

“And Myers Poker. Michael Lewis”

“Remarkably bright creatures, after a recommendation from my mom”

“there's one called the Gruffalo. I use my kids. I oh my God, our kid just got obsessed with the Gruffalo. Yes. Uh we have like a a bedtime chart. Yeah. And now it's like pajamas, brushed teeth. Books, Gruffalo”

“My favorite children's book ever is a very old one and it's called The big orange spots or some Something along those lines. Look it up. It's great. Go get it”