Episode · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2022-03-24
Books mentioned on #582: Mark Zuckerberg on Long-Term Strategy, Business and Parenting Principles, Personal Energy Management, Building the Metaverse, Seeking Awe, the Role of Religion, Solving Deep Technical Challenges (e.g., AR), and More
Brought to you by Eight Sleep’s Pod Pro Cover sleeping solution for dynamic cooling and heating, Magic Spoon delicious low-carb cereal, and Helium 10 all-in-one software suite to sell on Amazon. Mark Zuckerberg (FB/IG) is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Meta, which he originally founded as Facebook in 2004.
Tim Ferriss discussed Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, Exhalation by Ted Chiang, and Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman. Mark Zuckerberg recommended Way of the Warrior Kid by Jocko Willink, and discussed Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, and Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Ender's Game
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card is a classic science fiction novel about a gifted young boy recruited into an elite military academy to prepare for an impending alien invasion through intense tactical simulations.
Discussed“One would be books and I want to ask this is from a profile in the New Yorker from 2010 and I remember this because I noticed it before I read it in the New Yorker at the time, which was for a period of time, I think the only book that was on your profile on Facebook was Ender's”
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Exhalation
Exhalation by Ted Chiang is a critically acclaimed collection of philosophical science fiction short stories.
Discussed“I mean one who comes to mind for me would be Ted Chiang, who's written a number of short story collections like Exhalation, which seem to include a lot of potentials kind of right around the corner, right? Near near future speculative fiction.”
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Ready Player One
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline is a dystopian science fiction novel set in a sprawling virtual reality universe filled with nostalgic pop culture references.
Discussed“There are some that are just classics around this, right? So I don't think at this point anyone who's in this space would read Ready Player One and Snow Crash.”
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Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson's groundbreaking cyberpunk novel Snow Crash immerses readers in a chaotic future America defined by corporate franchising, hyper-inflation, and a virtual reality network known as the Metaverse.
Discussed“There are some that are just classics around this, right? So I don't think at this point anyone who's in this space would read Ready Player One and Snow Crash.”
Where to get it
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Rainbows End
Discussed“I think Rainbows End is one that is maybe not as commonly cited, but I think is is maybe the augmented reality sort of equivalent of some of the the seminal works that talk about virtual reality.”
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Way of the Warrior Kid
Way of the Warrior Kid is a children's book by Jocko Willink designed to help young readers build resilience, confidence, and strong character habits.
Recommended“So, that's maybe one silver lining of the of the pandemic the last couple of years, but it's but basically, you know, I I just take an hour every day and you know, we we read, we like sing, we you know, it's um you know, I'm I'm reading this book with them now, The Way of the Warrior Kid,”
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Four Thousand Weeks
Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman is an insightful time-management book that confronts the finite nature of human life and challenges modern productivity obsessions.
Discussed“I think it's 4,000 weeks, but that's by Oliver Burkeman and there's a chapter called cosmic insignificance therapy.”
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