Episode · Lenny's Podcast · 2023-07-27
Lenny Rachitsky & Ronny Kohavi: books mentioned on Lenny's Podcast
The ultimate guide to A/B testing | Ronny Kohavi (Airbnb, Microsoft, Amazon)
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Ronny Kohavi recommended Calling Bullshit by Carl T. Bergstrom and others, Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense by Jeffrey Pfeffer and others, and Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me) by Carol Tavris.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Calling Bullshit
Recommended“there's a fun book called calling which is despite the sort of uh name which is a little extreme I think for the title it actually has a lot of amazing insights uh that I love and it sort of embodies in my opinion a lot of the twyman's law”
Where to get it
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Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense
Recommended“there's a slightly older book that I love called hard facts dangerous half-truths and total nonsense uh by the Stanford professors from The Graduate School of Business very interesting to see many of the things that we grew up with as sort of well understood turn out to have no uh justification”
Where to get it
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Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me)
Recommended“and then some with stranger book which I love sort of on the verge of psychology it's called mistakes were made but not by me uh about all the fallacies and and that we fall into uh in The Humbling results from that”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing How to Read a Book
“and there's another I think there's a book that's based on this like how to read a book”