Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 2019-02-28
Books mentioned on 369. A Good Idea Is Not Good Enough
Whether you’re building a business or a cathedral, execution is everything. We ask artists, scientists, and inventors how they turned ideas into reality.
Other mentions in this episode (8) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The big short
“The writer Michael Lewis, for instance. Among his books are The Big Short, Moneyball, and The Undoing Project.”
Passing Moneyball
“The writer Michael Lewis, for instance. Among his books are The Big Short, Moneyball, and The Undoing Project.”
Passing The undoing project
“The writer Michael Lewis, for instance. Among his books are The Big Short, Moneyball, and The Undoing Project.”
Passing To the Lighthouse
“Experimental innovators, meanwhile, build up to their masterpieces. Virginia Woolf was 44 when she wrote To the Lighthouse.”
Passing A Visit from the Goon Squad
“The novelist Jennifer Egan is now in her mid-50s. Oh my gosh. By the time Egan won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for her book A Visit from the Goon Squad, she'd been writing for a couple decades.”
Passing Manhattan Beach
“She'd only completed three novels during that time, and the one that followed, Manhattan Beach, took another seven years.”
Passing The Invisible Circus
“When Jennifer Egan was writing her first novel, The Invisible Circus, she did not have a reliable way to do that.”
Passing Manhattan Beach
“That's her latest book, an historical novel published in 2017.”