Episode · Lenny's Podcast · 2025-12-04
Lenny Rachitsky & Tomer Cohen: books mentioned on Lenny's Podcast
Why LinkedIn is turning PMs into AI-powered "full stack builders” | Tomer Cohen (LinkedIn CPO)
Tomer Cohen is the longtime chief product officer at LinkedIn, where he’s pioneering the Full Stack Builder program, a radical new approach to product development that fully embraces what AI makes possible.
Tomer Cohen recommended Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and others, Outlive by Peter Attia and others, and The beginning of infinity by David Deutsch.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Why Nations Fail
Recommended“But the first one is called Why Nations Fail. Uh it's a book I read uh a decade ago even more and the authors of it just won the Nobel Prize last year and it basically talks about why does some nations succeed and some fail.”
Where to get it
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Outlive
Recommended“Second book it's called Outlive. Uh it's really about kind of the idea It's kind of like you know the author Peter Attia talks about the idea of medicine 3.0 which is really uh the notion of like building personalized medicine”
Where to get it
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The beginning of infinity
Recommended“And then lastly uh it's a book that also came out many years ago but it's called The Beginning of Infinity uh which I really like by um uh Deutsch and it's it's uh it's wasn't an easy read for easy read for me”
Where to get it
