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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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book / recommends
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.”
book / likes
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.”
book / recommends
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...”
book / recommends
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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What Nicole said.
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01 / preference
There's no such thing as not being in the cloud because if you cannot make it through bursting on demand, bursting like magic, sometimes I joke, right, you're not going to make it.
“There's no such thing as not being in the cloud because if you cannot make it through bursting on demand, bursting like magic, sometimes I joke, right, you're not going to make it.”
- Speaker
- Nicole Forsgren
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
02 / preference
If I turn this into a sentence, what do they represent?" And then you want to double check because spurious correlation's one of my favorite websites instead of charts.
“If I turn this into a sentence, what do they represent?" And then you want to double check because spurious correlation's one of my favorite websites instead of charts.”
- Speaker
- Nicole Forsgren
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
03 / preference
I will say I write things down because I get asked them so often, and I want to make sure it is broadly applicable or broadly available, I guess.
“I will say I write things down because I get asked them so often, and I want to make sure it is broadly applicable or broadly available, I guess.”
- Speaker
- Nicole Forsgren
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast