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The clearest case of a book changing a reader’s mind
How to Change Your Mind — book by Michael Pollan. Kevin Ryan says he had never considered or tried psychedelics before reading it and that it “literally did change my mind.” He says the book led him to see potential for these medicines to help with PTSD, depression, and anxiety, pointing to academic results; he had found it on the New York Times’ 2017 best-books list. This is the most compelling recommendation because Ryan describes both his starting point and the shift; the health claims remain his account, not an independent clinical assessment.
Other useful reading
Incorruptible — book; the transcript renders the author’s name as “Eric Reese.” Marty Cagan explicitly encourages readers to read it after describing a corporate-governance problem: product teams can get better at shipping great products yet see their work pulled in another direction by people with different motivations. For product leaders, the recommendation points beyond execution practice to who governs the product.
Shakespeare’s Professional Career — book by Peter Thomson. Paul Graham, writing about what he is reading, praises its density and says it nearly amounts to a history of the Elizabethan period. The draw is a Shakespeare book that broadens into the surrounding era.
An article on what makes art great — Nabil Koreshi. Katie Dill calls it insightful; in her summary, great art combines unexpected details with deeper meaning or recurring themes that hold together as a whole. Dill connects that to AI-era editing: judge details and coherence, not just whether an output looks finished. The passage gives no formal title or URL, so this one is harder to track down.
The speaker, who says he had been a product leader for two and a half decades, recommends the new book Incorruptible (the transcript renders the author’s name as “Eric Reese”) during a discussion of corporate governance and the risk of products being pulled in a different direction by people with different motivations.
Kevin Ryan credited Michael Pollan’s book How to Change Your Mind with changing his view of psychedelics; he said it helped persuade him that these medicines could be useful for conditions including PTSD, depression, and anxiety. He found the book through the New York Times’ 2017 best-books list, which he checks for reading ideas.
Tobi Lutke recommended @IterIntellectus’s Claude-generated video on Western civilization, praising it as an outside perspective on Western culture and suggesting schools play it weekly with their local anthem .
The speaker endorses an article by Nabil Koreshi about what makes art great, highlighting its idea that strong work combines unexpected details with deeper meaning or recurring themes that create a coherent whole—qualities the speaker says AI is not good at.
The video speaker praises Claire’s talk on ambition and invokes it while arguing that PMs should automate small, reactive loops so they can focus on larger work.
Jason Lemkin (@jasonlk) endorses Gorgias’s e-commerce customer-experience competitive evaluation report as an example of how to publish evaluations transparently: https://evals.gorgias.com/report. The report open-sources its harness and covers 8,356 live conversations across 18 vendors; it names Gorgias #1 in support while also showing Yuma resolving more conversations and Envive leading in pre-sale.
Paul Graham recommends Peter Thomson’s book Shakespeare’s Professional Career, praising its detail and saying it covers far more than its title suggests—nearly amounting to a history of the Elizabethan period.
Matt Mullenweg recommends haiku.blog, calling it “one of the best blogs on the internet” and praising its beautiful photography and daily haiku.