Recommends The Goal. Recommends Cool Gray City of Love.

26 Jan 2023 Lenny's Podcast An inside look at Mixpanel’s product journey | Vijay Iyengar (Head of Product)

“On the business book standpoint, there's this book called The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt. And it's kind of an old book, but I like it because it's sort of written in this fast-paced thriller model. It's like a fiction book, but it's about this idea of the theory of constraints, finding constraints in a system and how you can remove them to improve productivity. So, I found it's just a fun read, and also really insightful non-technical books that I recommend to folks, particularly those that live in SF, which is Cool Gray City of Love by Gary Kamiya, who is a longtime SF president. And it just goes into the history and the communities, and even the geography of San Francisco, and I've just discovered so many little pockets in the city from reading that book, so it's something I recommend to people who live in San Francisco.”

— Vijay Iyengar

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Speaker: Vijay Iyengar
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Recorded: 26 Jan 2023
Publisher: Lenny's Podcast
Episode: An inside look at Mixpanel’s product journey | Vijay Iyengar (Head of Product)

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…Okay. What are couple books that you recommend most to other people? On the business book standpoint, there's this book called The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt. And it's kind of an old book, but I like it because it's sort of written in this fast-paced thriller model. It's like a fiction book, but it's about this idea of the theory of constraints, finding constraints in a system and how you can remove them to improve productivity. So, I found it's just a fun read, and also really insightful non-technical books that I recommend to folks, particularly those that live in SF, which is Cool Gray City of Love by Gary Kamiya, who is a longtime SF president. And it just goes into the history and the communities, and even the geography of San Francisco, and I've just discovered so many little pockets in the city from reading that book, so it's something I recommend to people who live in San Francisco. What's a favorite other podcast that you enjoy other than this podcast?…

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