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Published · transcript-backedLikes Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me).
27 Jul 2023 Lenny's Podcast The ultimate guide to A/B testing | Ronny Kohavi (Airbnb, Microsoft, Amazon)
“So a stranger book, which I love, sort of on the verge of psychology, it's called Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me), about all the fallacies that we fall into, and the humbling results from that.”
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- Ronny Kohavi
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- recommendation
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- 27 Jul 2023
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- Lenny's Podcast
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…Lightning round. Here we go. I'm just going to roll right into it. What are two or three books that you've recommended most to other people? There's a fun book called Calling Bullshit, which despite the name, which is a little extreme, I think, for a title, it actually has a lot of amazing insights that I love. And it sort of embodies, in my opinion, a lot of the Twyman's law showing that things that are too extreme, your bullshit meter should go up and say, "Hey, I don't believe that." So that's my number one recommendation. There's a slightly older book that I love called Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And Total Nonsense by the Stanford professors from the Graduate School of Business. Very interesting to see many of the things that we grew up with as well understood turn out to have no justification. So a stranger book, which I love, sort of on the verge of psychology, it's called Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me), about all the fallacies that we fall into, and the humbling results from that. The titles of these are hilarious, and there's a common theme across all these books. Next question, what is a favorite recent movie or TV show?…
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