Episode · Lenny's Podcast · 2025-01-16
Lenny Rachitsky & Graham Weaver: books mentioned on Lenny's Podcast
How to break out of autopilot and create the life you want | Graham Weaver (Stanford GSB professor, founder of Alpine Investors)
Graham Weaver teaches a top-rated course at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business (GSB), where he often unexpectedly ends up helping students figure out what to do with their lives. He is also the founder and CEO of Alpine Investors, a people-driven private equity firm.
Graham Weaver recommended The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer, Don't Believe Everything You Think by Joseph Nguyen, and How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie, and discussed Switch by Chip Heath and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Switch
Discussed“and um and I have this unbelievable uh there's unbelievable statement I didn't write it uh Dan and Chip wrote it in their book switch you know which is scale your bright spots you know find what's working and do more of that”
Where to get it
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The Untethered Soul
Recommended“I love the book um untethered soul and I love the book don't believe everything you think they have very similar themes but they come at it differently”
Where to get it
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Don't Believe Everything You Think
Recommended“I love the book um untethered soul and I love the book don't believe everything you think they have very similar themes but they come at it differently”
Where to get it
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How to Win Friends and Influence People
Recommended“and then a very very practical book that's probably the book I've read more than any other book is How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie which was written in like 1930 but it is absolutely there's no other book like it”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Where the Crawdads Sing
“for the first time watched the movie where the croad sing and uh I just loved it um it was it's kind of a romantic comedy or not not comedy sorry romantic uh Love Story meets murder mystery meets coming of age and uh it was just it really really touched me then I I probably read the book as”