Episode · Lenny's Podcast · 2023-12-17
Lenny Rachitsky & Jason Fried: books mentioned on Lenny's Podcast
Jason Fried challenges your thinking on fundraising, goals, growth, and more
Jason Fried is the co-founder and CEO of 37signals, the maker of Basecamp and HEY. 37signals is a very different kind of company.
Lenny Rachitsky recommended Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse. Jason Fried recommended Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg, Hell Yeah Or No by Derek Sivers, and Home-made by Vladimir Arkhipov.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Finite and Infinite Games
Recommended“there's this book called finite and infinite games. no I've not okay I think this is I think you would love it so the whole premise of this book it's like very it's like a tur kind of tricky philosophical book but it's very short”
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Several Short Sentences About Writing
Recommended“the first one is is this book here so several short sentences about writing do you know I love that book I have it on my on my coffee table when anyone ever asks me like what book do you recommend on writing it's this one”
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Hell Yeah Or No
Recommended“the other one is pretty much anything by Derek sers but specifically hell yeah or no this book is something I I I recommend this book to everybody it's really had a big effect on me and and David specifically”
Where to get it
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Home-made
Recommended“and the last one is this design book which is which is interesting there's a few different versions of it the one I have handy it's called homemade contemporary Russian folk artifacts and what this book is it's a collection of it's It's A Beautiful book”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Shape Up
“and if you go to basecamp.com shapeup you can read the book it's free you can also get a print version if you want shapeup is our methodology for for actually building products”
“one of them is uh work isn't war and you wrote a book about this roughly about work doesn't have to suck but I guess just can you just talk about why War work feels like war”