Episode · Lenny's Podcast · 2022-12-18
Lenny Rachitsky & Chris Hutchins: books mentioned on Lenny's Podcast
Launching and growing a podcast | Chris Hutchins (All the Hacks, Wealthfront, Google)
Chris Hutchins recently left his position as Head of New Product Strategy at Wealthfront to focus full-time on his podcast, All the Hacks. If you’re thinking about starting your own podcast or are simply interested in the process, be sure to check out today’s episode.
Chris Hutchins recommended Happy Money by Elizabeth Dunn and others, Vagabonding by Rolf Potts, and Die with Zero by Bill Perkins, and discussed The 2-Hour Cocktail Party by Nick Gray.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The 2-Hour Cocktail Party
Discussed“I interviewed a guy named Nick Gray and it was a fun conversation because he wrote a book called The two-hour cocktail party and it was all about how to like build Relationships by throwing the best cocktail parties”
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Happy Money
Recommended“happy money is a fantastic book all about ways that you can spend your money to optimize for happiness it's like a collection of a ton of research about the happy science of happier spending”
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Vagabonding
Recommended“vagabonding by Rolf Potts who I had the pleasure uh the last two I've had the pleasure of interviewing recently it's like a guide to long-term travel but it's just kind of a different perspective on travel”
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Die with Zero
Recommended“the last is called die with zero by Bill Perkins and that book probably had the biggest impact I haven't gifted it to anyone I've recommended it heavily the last week because it had a huge impact on me”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The Psychology of Money
“one of my first episodes was with a guy named Morgan housel who wrote a book called psychology of money I was like I read the book I was like this is a great book”