Episode · Lenny's Podcast · 2024-01-04
Lenny Rachitsky & Judd Antin: books mentioned on Lenny's Podcast
The UX research reckoning is here | Judd Antin (Airbnb, Meta)
Judd Antin has spent 15 years leading research and design teams at companies like Yahoo, Meta, and Airbnb. His direct reports have gone on to lead user research at Figma, Notion, Slack, Robinhood, Duolingo, AllTrails, and more.
Judd Antin recommended Everything is Obvious by Duncan J. Watts, Bad Leadership by Barbara Kellerman, Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, and The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells, and discussed Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. Lenny Rachitsky discussed The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Discussed“a lot of a lot of your listeners have probably read uh Thinking Fast and Slow system one system two right I have it here right under my laptop actually holding up my laptop screen”
Where to get it
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Everything is Obvious
Recommended“and then the last one is about post talk bias it's we knew this already that was obvious and um I think a lot about this book which I would recommend to um your listeners so the author is a sociologist at upen named Duncan watts and the title is everything is obvious if you already know the answer”
Where to get it
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Bad Leadership
Recommended“I recently read a book by uh a business book by Barbara Kellerman called bad leadership and what I love about it is that we spend a lot of time talking about good leaders and she really dives into like the worst leaders and what makes them bad leaders”
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Demon Copperhead
Recommended“I'd also recommend I read a lot of fiction so two recommendations there one U recent poster Prize winner demon uh Copperhead by a barb king solver it's like an outstanding read that also um is like really sad and moving and illustrative”
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The Murderbot Diaries
Recommended“and then completely other side of the fiction Spectrum if you if you're interested in science fiction which I am uh read the murderbot Diaries it's like about a sarcastic robot uh a sarcastic killer robot and who doesn't love them”
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Discussed“I I learned that lesson from Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and just the importance of thinking about these Circles of you can control you can influence and you have no control over and there's no reason to think about those other things”
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