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The Ten Faces of InnovationBook

by Tom Kelley

Who uses, recommends or left The Ten Faces of Innovation, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Chief product officer at VRChat when they spoke to Lenny's Podcast in 2025; earlier at Meta, Headspace and Zynga.
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from Tom Kelly of idio uh which is the 10 faces of innovation

Lenny's Podcast, "An operator’s guide to product strategy", lightning round, asked for the books they recommend most; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions). Captions spell the title "the 10 faces of innovation".

2025-01-26·youtube.com ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

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The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

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