Podcasts that mention 📚 Sonnets by William Shakespeare
Sonnets
Mentioned 2 times in 2 episodes across 2 podcasts.
Podcasts that mention Sonnets by William Shakespeare
How I Write episodes that mention Sonnets by William Shakespeare
Episode: Meet The Most Under-Rated Writing Professor in America (Ward Farnsworth)
Published on February 12, 2025
I more or less OBS the King James Bible more or less obsessively that in shakes
The speaker mentions Abraham Lincoln's obsessive reading of Shakespeare as an influence on his writing.
People I (Mostly) Admire episodes that mention Sonnets by William Shakespeare
Episode: Can a Moonshot Approach to Mental Health Work? | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 111
Published on August 8, 2023
So what we did at X is we had this image of a monkey on a pedestal, and the story was: imagine you’re trying to train a monkey to recite Shakespeare's sonnets while standing on a pedestal; what do you work on first? The monkey training or the pedestal?
Obi Felton uses a metaphor of training a monkey to recite Shakespeare's sonnets to illustrate X's strategy of tackling the hardest part of a problem first. This emphasizes the importance of focusing on the core challenge (the monkey) before addressing the peripheral elements (the pedestal).
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