Episode · a16z Podcast · 2016-03-11
Books mentioned on a16z Podcast: Your Worst Deeds Don’t Define You -- Life and Redemption in Prison
Men and women who have spent decades in prison are being released into an iPhone-enabled world that they hardly recognize. Shaka Senghor is one of those people, imprisoned at age 19 for second-degree murder and released almost two decades later in 2010.
Ben Horowitz discussed Writing my wrongs by Shaka Senghor. Shaka Senghor discussed The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Writing my wrongs
Writing My Wrongs by Shaka Senghor is a powerful memoir detailing the author's journey through the prison system, redemption, and personal transformation after committing a murder.
Discussed“Oprah said well van I had read his book and I knew there was a part in the book that I wanted to ask him about because I didn't think that was right”
Where to get it
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X is a classic American memoir recounting the life, civil rights activism, and spiritual evolution of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley.
Discussed“and I ended up getting introduced to Malcolm X's autobiography and that book became probably the most pivotal book and in my life you remember the cartoons like me you have like the the bad ain't that the bad little devil on one shoulder and like the little angel another soda”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“Ben Horowitz sits down with Shaka Senghor author of writing my wrongs life death and redemption in an American prison”
“when I was in prison I started writing I wrote in and published along with everything my first novel so we scrapped up our little funds and and and probably invested about three thousand dollars to buy a thousand copies of the book”