Episode 135: Record, Playback, and Personality
AB Testing8 Maalis 2021

Episode 135: Record, Playback, and Personality

We talk a bit about personality types (more on this in 136), touch on some thoughts on record & playback automation, and a few other tangential topics.

Books mentioned on this podcast include:

  • Accelerate (Forsgren et al)
  • Radical Candor (Scott)
  • Where Good Ideas come from (Johnson)
  • How to Measure Anything (Hubbard)
  • Lean Startup (Ries)
  • The Leaders Guide to Radical Management (Denning)
  • Drive (Pink)

One more for the bookshelf that we didn't call out is Principles of Product Development Flow (Reinertsen)

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