Why people recommend it
The Rust Programming Language (Covers Rust 2018) by Steve Klabnik and Carol Nichols serves as an authoritative, comprehensive guide to learning Rust, a systems programming language focused on safety, speed, and concurrency. On The Ezra Klein Show, a guest was noted for recommending a completely different publication, specifically the final volume of Robert Caro's monumental biography of Lyndon B. Johnson, noting that reading such large biographical books takes considerable time and effort even for those with strong language fluency. Meanwhile, on an episode of The Jordan Harbinger Show, the host engaged with a guest regarding environmental issues and marine biology, referencing details from the guest's own book concerning how microplastics affect sea life. Specifically, the discussion highlighted how plastic pellets cause fecal matter from marine animals to sink more slowly, altering feeding patterns for other creatures in the middle of the ocean. While the podcast episodes touched upon vastly different literary works and subjects ranging from political biographies to oceanic plastic pollution, they collectively demonstrated how hosts and guests utilize books to anchor complex discussions on technology, history, and ecology.
Who recommended it
- Ezra Klein Recommended
Ezra Klein — 1 mention
“but really I just read the last volume of the biography of Lyon Johnson by Caro wow Amazing wow uh so it took me a while because my English is not as fluent as the It takes everybody a while to read that those are big books”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker — 1
“I found it interesting in your book that you wrote, when animals eat these plastics, especially sea life, the plastic pellets make the poop attached to them sink more slowly. This means they get eaten by other animals in the middle of the ocean that feed on the fecal matter of other animals.”
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Other mentions (6: passing, ad reads, own books)
“Corporations have gained so much power, which by the way, in my book, I explain that the Founding Fathers did the American Revolution not just against the British Empire, but against the British East India Company.”
“He, he's a [__] tremendous! He's one of a kind and his book is great too if you haven't read his book! But, um, he's sitting there; he'd been eating mushrooms, you know!”
“We think this is the identity that makes us someone important, and I think one of the most valuable exercises in a book I used to teach it on retreats is about layers of confidence.”
“So much of what I used to do at my retreats ended up in this book, and one of the big exercises involves the three layers of confidence.”
“I write about this in my first book.”
“And that's why I wrote the book, David, this is why I blew the whistle on the press. I try to be fair.”