Episode · Lenny's Podcast · 2025-09-28
Lenny Rachitsky & Nesrine Changuel: books mentioned on Lenny's Podcast
A 4-step framework for building delightful products | Nesrine Changuel (Spotify, Google, Skype)
Nesrine Changuel helped build Spotify, Google Chrome, and Google Meet. Her work has helped her discover the importance of emotional connection in building successful products.
Lenny Rachitsky discussed Product Delight by Nesrine Changuel. Nesrine Changuel recommended Factfulness by Hans Rosling and others and Strong Product People by Petra Wille.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Product Delight
Discussed“So, you just published uh a book that is coming out uh or just came out a couple days ago from the time this podcast is coming out. It's on a very polarizing topic, product, it's called product delight.”
Where to get it
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Factfulness
Recommended“The first book is called Factfulness. Maybe you heard about it. It comes from Ola Rosling and Hans Rosling and Anna Rosling. The three are Swedish. It got it's been a bestseller for years.”
Where to get it
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Strong Product People
Recommended“And the second book is actually very close to my heart. It's called uh strong product community by Petra who's been on the show by the way. And the reason why I recommend this book is because actually I started my career in research.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Product Delight
“But the reality is that and even before I start writing the book, I realized that it's not that much spoken about in business and in products.”
Plugged Product Delight
“So actually when I wrote this book I defined what I call humanization as a type of delighter. I mean I listed couple of delighters and humanization is one of them and I even said it's my favorite.”