Episode · Lenny's Podcast · 2024-09-22
Lenny Rachitsky & Tal Raviv: books mentioned on Lenny's Podcast
Becoming a super IC: Lessons from 12 years as a PM individual contributor | Tal Raviv (Product Lead at Riverside)
Tal Raviv is a product manager at Riverside, where he joined as its first PM. Over his 12-year career as an individual contributor, Tal has been an early PM at Patreon, AppsFlyer, and Wix, working in consumer growth, developer API platforms, and pricing.
Tal Raviv recommended How to talk so kids will listen & listen so kids will talk by Adele Faber and others, and discussed Drive by Daniel H. Pink, Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss and others, and Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg and others. Lenny Rachitsky recommended Listen by Patty Wipfler and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Drive
Discussed“that classic book drive you know motivation comes from autonomy Mastery and purpose and I think for me the IC role it's definitely very autonomous”
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How to talk so kids will listen & listen so kids will talk
Recommended“the best book on product management that I've read um is called how to talk so kids will listen and listen so kids will talk I encountered this book”
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Never Split the Difference
Discussed“if anybody has read uh never split the difference by Chris Voss where he talks about how he like senior FBI agents in 70s were realizing that all they were doing in their like negotiating tactics were just not working”
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Nonviolent Communication
Discussed“and that something is basically non-violent communication and he gives these amazing examples of Decades of using this with kidnappers uh to diffuse situations and uh create productive outcomes”
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Listen
Recommended“there's um there's a book that another I'm just going to throw out a book recommendation reverse lighting around on this topic that Joe Hudson recent podcast guest recommended Offline that I found to be incredibly helpful”
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