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Every book Ronny Kohavi recommended on podcasts
Key facts
- Ronny Kohavi has recommended or discussed 3 books on podcasts, as of July 27, 2023.
- Ronny Kohavi has talked about books on 1 podcast, as of July 27, 2023.
- Those books came up in 1 episode, as of July 27, 2023.
- The 3 books Ronny Kohavi has mentioned in the most episodes, as of July 27, 2023: Calling Bullshit, Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense and Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me).
- The latest episode with a book mention from Ronny Kohavi aired on July 27, 2023.
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Ronny Kohavi appeared on Lenny's Podcast to discuss the ultimate guide to A/B testing, drawing upon his extensive background and expertise in the field. During the episode, he shared several book recommendations that resonated with his professional outlook and intellectual interests. First, he recommended a book whose title was transcribed incompletely as Calling Bullshit by Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West, praising its amazing insights and its connection to Twyman's law despite its somewhat extreme title. Second, he recommended Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton, noting that it successfully challenged various beliefs that people had previously treated as well established and lacking justification. Finally, Kohavi recommended Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me) by Carol Tavris, a psychology-leaning book that he loved for its thorough exploration of the various cognitive fallacies that people frequently fall into and the humbling results that follow from them. Each of these selections reflected his analytical approach to data, experimentation, and human behavior.
Books Ronny Kohavi recommended or discussed
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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
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| The ultimate guide to A/B testing | Ronny Kohavi (Airbnb, Microsoft, Amazon) | Lenny's Podcast | 2023-07-27 | 3 |
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
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