Episode · Lenny's Podcast · 2022-08-21
Lenny Rachitsky & Marty Cagan: books mentioned on Lenny's Podcast (Aug 2022)
The nature of product | Marty Cagan, Silicon Valley Product Group
What are common diseases of product teams, and how do you avoid them? Why should you focus less on problem discovery and more on solution discovery?
Marty Cagan recommended Working Backwards by Colin Bryar and others, No Rules Rules: Netflix and the culture of reinvention by Reed Hastings and others, Build by Tony Fadell, Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres, and Sprint by Jake Knapp and others, and discussed Inspired by Marty Cagan and EMPOWERED by Marty Cagan and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Inspired
Discussed“nothing I've written about in "Inspired" nothing I've written about in "Empowered" was invented by us. All we do is share the practices we see being used in the best teams.”
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EMPOWERED
Discussed“nothing I've written about in "Inspired" nothing I've written about in "Empowered" was invented by us. All we do is share the practices we see being used in the best teams.”
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Working Backwards
Recommended“But you can read books like "Working Backwards" from Amazon describes what I talk about all the time, but it's using Amazon terms.”
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No Rules Rules: Netflix and the culture of reinvention
Recommended“You can read "No Rules, Rules" from Netflix. You can see how that's done.”
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Build
Recommended“You can read "Build" that talks about how Apple did it, you know, it's just, it's all great, but you've gotta work a little harder to see the common threads.”
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Continuous Discovery Habits
Recommended“Well, in particular about what we're talking about now, Theresa Torres's, new book, "Continuous Discovery Habits", that's a very good book. It's right on point.”
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Sprint
Recommended“Another good book is "Sprint", you know, Jake Knapps book, that also will hold your hand. Now that's a particular technique, a whole 400 pages on one technique, but it is a good technique.”
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Other mentions in this episode (5) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Inspired
“He's the author of "Empowered" and "Inspired", two of the most widely read and influential books on product management.”
Passing EMPOWERED
“He's the author of "Empowered" and "Inspired", two of the most widely read and influential books on product management.”
Plugged EMPOWERED
“And one of... to answer your question, you know, in my own writing and in fact in the recent book, "Empowered", I share my theory for why there's such a big difference between the best and the rest.”
Plugged Inspired
“So that's why I wrote the book "Inspired" was to share the most popular techniques. There are other books too that talk about those techniques for discovery, but, you know, read something, learn the techniques.”
Passing Inspired
“You mentioned a lot of things people can do and then you mentioned reading "Inspired".”