Cat Wu's Reading List

Head of Product for Claude Code at Anthropic; previously product roles at Stripe and Notion.

Books from Lenny's Podcast: How Anthropic's product team moves faster than anyone else | Cat Wu (2026)

Extracted via LLM from auto-captions of Lenny's Podcast (2026-04-23).

Joe Studwell · 2013 · Buy on Amazon

"I really like How Asia Works. It's a story about economic development and the policies that make long-lasting successful economies."

The Technology Trap

Carl Benedikt Frey · 2019 · Buy on Amazon

"The other books I'm really into are The Technology Trap. There's a lot we can learn from past technology revolutions to make sure this transition goes well."

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

Ken Liu · 2016 · Buy on Amazon

"On a fun note, I really like Paper Menagerie. It's just a book of short stories about coming of age and AI and self-discovery."

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