Episode · Lenny's Podcast · 2023-10-08
Lenny Rachitsky & Karri Saarinen: books mentioned on Lenny's Podcast
Inside Linear: Building with taste, craft, and focus | Karri Saarinen (co-founder, designer, CEO)
Karri Saarinen is the co-founder and CEO of Linear, an issue-tracking tool that has quickly become the fastest-growing and most beloved in the world. Before Linear, Karri was the principal designer and co-creator of design systems at Airbnb and the founding designer at Coinbase.
Karri Saarinen recommended The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig. Lenny Rachitsky criticized Wool by Hugh Howey, Shift by Hugh Howey, and Dust by Hugh Howey.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Timeless Way of Building
Recommended“Timeless way of building by Christopher Alexander like he he's this like a uh he wasn't really an architect but he he I think thought in Berkeley”
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Recommended“the other the other book that I like is like the the Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance because it's also like talks about the quality of things”
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Wool
Critiqued“I actually read The Silo books and I was really excited for the show to come out but mentioned this on a previous podcast the show is like so little to do with the actual books”
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Shift
Critiqued“I actually read The Silo books and I was really excited for the show to come out but mentioned this on a previous podcast the show is like so little to do with the actual books”
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Dust
Critiqued“I actually read The Silo books and I was really excited for the show to come out but mentioned this on a previous podcast the show is like so little to do with the actual books”
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