Episode · Lenny's Podcast · 2025-08-31
Lenny Rachitsky & Howie Liu: books mentioned on Lenny's Podcast
How we restructured Airtable’s entire org for AI | Howie Liu (co-founder and CEO)
Howie Liu is the co-founder and CEO of Airtable, the no-code platform valued at around $12 billion.
Howie Liu recommended The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu, and Death's End by Cixin Liu.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Three-Body Problem
Recommended“I will say like Three Body Problem like for anyone who hasn't read it, like it's it's a mind expanding book. Like I like sci-fi and and fiction that like kind of opens your brain.”
Where to get it
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The Dark Forest
Recommended“So maybe this is my cheat card, but uh you know it's a threebook series. Those are those are three great books. I love that series.”
Where to get it
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Death's End
Recommended“So maybe this is my cheat card, but uh you know it's a threebook series. Those are those are three great books. I love that series.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Thinking, Fast and Slow
“and the common sense uh to operate right like as a human I have that book behind me yeah I love that book um but uh but slow thinking is like it's just a different mode of planning and executing”