book / recommends
The Purpose Driven Church
“the best book anyone's ever recommended to me to read, which I now recommend to others, is The Purpose Driven Church by a pastor called Rick Warren.”
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Tom Verrilli
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book / recommends
Babel
“Okay. Not to be cliched, but The Hard Thing about Hard Things I still think is the best book written about product management, just from a breadth of things that you have to go through and try and do and screw up a lot. Slightly left field, but the best book anyone's ever recommended to me to read, which I now recommend to others, is The Purpose Driven Church by a pastor called Rick Warren. Emmett Shear, the CEO at Twitch, used to basically make sure that people read it. It's this wild examination of why people emotionally invest in something and how to engineer emotional investment into it from a group of people. It's literally a how to go and build a church guidebook written in the '90s. Definitely worth a read if you're in a community product of any form. And the last one is if you're looking for fiction or fantasy, which is where I tend to go in the evening, Babel by R.F. Kuang.”
book / recommends
The Hard Thing about Hard Things
“Okay. Not to be cliched, but The Hard Thing about Hard Things I still think is the best book written about product management, just from a breadth of things that you have to go through and try and do and screw up a lot. Slightly left field, but the best book anyone's ever recommended to me to read, which I now recommend to others, is The Purpose Driven Church by a pastor called Rick Warren. Emmett Shear, the CEO at Twitch, used to basically make sure that people read it. It's this wild examination of why people emotionally invest in something and how to engineer emotional investment into it from a group of people. It's literally a how to go and build a church guidebook written in the '90s. Definitely worth a read if you're in a community product of any form. And the last one is if you're looking for fiction or fantasy, which is where I tend to go in the evening, Babel by R.F. Kuang.”
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01 / preference
The most fun thing I bought recently, I'm not joking, is a live lobster. Recently, one of the things that's really taken off on Whatnot is now fresh and specialty foods kind of category.
“The most fun thing I bought recently, I'm not joking, is a live lobster. Recently, one of the things that's really taken off on Whatnot is now fresh and specialty foods kind of category.”
- Speaker
- Tom Verrilli
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
02 / preference
I'm going to go find out." And then you invariably end up strengthening the system that agents are using to data label because suddenly there's a very smart person who's very invested in understanding how we do that and helping guide it.
“I'm going to go find out." And then you invariably end up strengthening the system that agents are using to data label because suddenly there's a very smart person who's very invested in understanding how we do that and helping guide it.”
- Speaker
- Tom Verrilli
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
03 / preference
I think in general, the hire great people and get out of their way became this kind of macro saying for let them work out what the roadmap is, let them work out what the problems are, just completely devolve what's going on.
“I think in general, the hire great people and get out of their way became this kind of macro saying for let them work out what the roadmap is, let them work out what the problems are, just completely devolve what's going on.”
- Speaker
- Tom Verrilli
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
04 / preference
Because you got to ask yourself, do I really want to spend my whole time having this discussion and this debate? But I like being a CPO or a product lead because in a lot of ways what I'm doing is I'm helping translate that vision and that intuition into reality.
“Because you got to ask yourself, do I really want to spend my whole time having this discussion and this debate? But I like being a CPO or a product lead because in a lot of ways what I'm doing is I'm helping translate that vision and that intuition into reality.”
- Speaker
- Tom Verrilli
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast