Recommendations you can check.
Head of talent at Cursor, the AI code editor made by Anysphere.
4 things
The PittOther
but I have been watching a series uh The Pit. Um and I'm from Western Pennsylvania, so from like the Pittsburgh area, and not only is that like a it's not only is it extremely well done,
Lenny's Podcast, "The playbook for building high talent density teams", lightning round, favourite recent movie or TV show; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions). Captions spell the show "The Pit".
2026-08-09·youtube.com ↗
GranolaSoftware Granola
I'm a huge granola fan. I think I was super early on granola, and I love that they continue to innovate. Um and really just did Yeah, just great product decisions, easy to use.
Lenny's Podcast, "The playbook for building high talent density teams", lightning round, favourite recently discovered product; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions).
2026-08-09·youtube.com ↗
Emotional IntelligenceBook Daniel Goleman
And it's emotional intelligence by Daniel Goleman. And you know it's kind of the the rise of EQ um as an important piece of it. And I just feel like emotional intelligence right now, more than ever, is so important in this like AI age. And so it was like super transformative to me way back then and I think it's like really important now.
Lenny's Podcast, "The playbook for building high talent density teams", lightning round, asked for the books they recommend most; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions).
2026-08-09·youtube.com ↗
High Growth HandbookBook Elad Gil
Uh and the other one I love for founders is just uh the high-growth handbook by Elad Gil. I just think it's set I'm a big fan of a book where you can just jump to a chapter and get an answer. And it's not this like linear piece you got to work through. And so I think it's such a great reference guide on different problems.
Lenny's Podcast, "The playbook for building high talent density teams", lightning round, asked for the books they recommend most; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions).
2026-08-09·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.
A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.
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:
Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.