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How Big Things Get Done
“It's kind of a random one. I will say I love How Big Things Get Done. I can't pronounce the names.”
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Nicole Forsgren
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The Undoing Project
“Outlive by Peter Attia is fantastic. Another one that's I guess maybe related, I hurt my back so it's not great, Back Mechanic by Stuart McGill is incredible. Shout out to anyone who has hurt lower back. It's for a lay person to read through and figure out how to fix lower back problems. It's kind of a random one. I will say I love How Big Things Get Done. I can't pronounce the names. I think one's... There's Scandinavian, one is. It kind of dissects really large projects through recent-ish history and where they failed and why. And I think it's really interesting for us to think about, especially now in this AI moment where basically all of our at least software systems are going to be changing. So how do we think about approaching what is essentially going to be a very large project? And then, sorry, I'm going to throw in a bonus one, The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis. Matt Velloso recommended it to me, and it's so good.”
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Accelerate
“" I wrote a book called Accelerate, which is the first four years of the research compiled and put together and expanded in a few things.”
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How to Measure Anything
“One book that I love. It's a little dense, but it's really interesting that I love is How to Measure Anything.”
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Ender's Game
“We actually had the perfect segue because the book I've recommended absolutely the most is called Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt. Another one is Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Abbott... Dave Evans. And the last one is probably Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card. No comment right now on some of his political commentary, but I used to have extra copies in my office when I was a professor and I would just hand it out to my students. It's a fun, just easy nonsense read, but...”
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Designing Your Life
“We actually had the perfect segue because the book I've recommended absolutely the most is called Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt. Another one is Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Abbott... Dave Evans. And the last one is probably Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card. No comment right now on some of his political commentary, but I used to have extra copies in my office when I was a professor and I would just hand it out to my students. It's a fun, just easy nonsense read, but...”
book / recommends
Good Strategy Bad Strategy
“We actually had the perfect segue because the book I've recommended absolutely the most is called Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt. Another one is Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Abbott... Dave Evans. And the last one is probably Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card. No comment right now on some of his political commentary, but I used to have extra copies in my office when I was a professor and I would just hand it out to my students. It's a fun, just easy nonsense read, but...”
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We can look at risk reduction, but the gains really are there. I will mention that it tends to follow something like the J-curve.
“We can look at risk reduction, but the gains really are there. I will mention that it tends to follow something like the J-curve.”
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- Nicole Forsgren
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
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I will say, I also wrote this with Abi Noda who has just... of DX. He has incredible experience in the space.
“I will say, I also wrote this with Abi Noda who has just... of DX. He has incredible experience in the space.”
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- Nicole Forsgren
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
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I will say if it is a prescriptive metric, it needs to be used only in the way it was prescribed.
“I will say if it is a prescriptive metric, it needs to be used only in the way it was prescribed.”
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- Nicole Forsgren
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
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Now I will say the next category for lead time for changes by the day is if lead time is between a day and a week.
“Now I will say the next category for lead time for changes by the day is if lead time is between a day and a week.”
- Speaker
- Nicole Forsgren
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
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I also had a master's in accounting because that really helped me make that kind of financial tie and understanding financial statements. And then, after a handful of years kind of walked away from tenure because academia was not convinced that DevOps was a thing, right, that DevOps wasn't real, and State of DevOps Report who I was doing with DORA, DevOps research and assessment in collaboration with Jez Humble and Gene Kim.
“I also had a master's in accounting because that really helped me make that kind of financial tie and understanding financial statements. And then, after a handful of years kind of walked away from tenure because academia was not convinced that DevOps was a thing, right, that DevOps wasn't real, and State of DevOps Report who I was doing with DORA, DevOps research and assessment in collaboration with Jez Humble and Gene Kim.”
- Speaker
- Nicole Forsgren
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
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" I wrote a book called Accelerate, which is the first four years of the research compiled and put together and expanded in a few things.
“" I wrote a book called Accelerate, which is the first four years of the research compiled and put together and expanded in a few things.”
- Speaker
- Nicole Forsgren
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast