book / likes
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.”
book / built
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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01 / recommendation
Likes How Big Things Get Done. 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.”
- Speaker
- Nicole Forsgren
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
02 / recommendation
Likes How Big Things Get Done.
“I will say I love How Big Things Get Done. I can't pronounce the names. I think one's...”
- Speaker
- Nicole Forsgren
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
03 / recommendation
Likes 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.”
- Speaker
- Nicole Forsgren
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
04 / recommendation
DevEx is developer experience. And when we think about developer experience, we're really talking about what it's like to build software, day to day, for a developer.
“DevEx is developer experience. And when we think about developer experience, we're really talking about what it's like to build software, day to day, for a developer.”
- Speaker
- Nicole Forsgren
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
05 / recommendation
Now that our attention has to focus on things at certain times and it's broken up from how we used to do it, I think there's some real opportunity there to, not just rethink workflows, but rethink how we structure our days and how we structure our work.
“Now that our attention has to focus on things at certain times and it's broken up from how we used to do it, I think there's some real opportunity there to, not just rethink workflows, but rethink how we structure our days and how we structure our work.”
- Speaker
- Nicole Forsgren
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
06 / recommendation
I think there are a lot of ways that we can pull in AI tools to help us refine our strategy, refine our message, think about the experimentation methods or targets of experimentation, or think about our total addressable market, but we need to have that strategy and plan fairly well aligned or at least have two or three alternatives that you want to test.
“I think there are a lot of ways that we can pull in AI tools to help us refine our strategy, refine our message, think about the experimentation methods or targets of experimentation, or think about our total addressable market, but we need to have that strategy and plan fairly well aligned or at least have two or three alternatives that you want to test.”
- Speaker
- Nicole Forsgren
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
07 / recommendation
Recommends Good Strategy Bad Strategy. Recommends Designing Your Life. 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...”
- Speaker
- Nicole Forsgren
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
08 / recommendation
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.”
- Speaker
- Nicole Forsgren
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
09 / recommendation
We actually had the perfect segue because the book I've recommended absolutely the most is called Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt.
“We actually had the perfect segue because the book I've recommended absolutely the most is called Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt.”
- Speaker
- Nicole Forsgren
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
10 / recommendation
Make sure you pick metrics that are intention. And I could say it, but people have a hard time wrapping that around their heads because they kept picking things like number of lines of code, never picked number of lines of code.
“Make sure you pick metrics that are intention. And I could say it, but people have a hard time wrapping that around their heads because they kept picking things like number of lines of code, never picked number of lines of code.”
- Speaker
- Nicole Forsgren
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast