Episode · This Week in Startups · 2026-01-08
Books mentioned on AI makes you more creative, AI Roundtable with Steven Johnson and Grant Lee | E2231
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Steven Johnson discussed The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye by J.
Discussed“And you know one of the side effects of this technology is like if you have free access to these tools they will write a plausible paper for you particularly if it's on a well if it's on you know catcher in the rye where there's like six billion papers there that have been written”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Sapiens
“I found some old kind of sketch of an idea for a story um kind of along the lines of like a book like Sapiens, like about the kind of birth of agriculture and things like that.”
Passing Superforecasting
“And then of course as prediction markets like poly market help us do you you you want to kind of go through some predictions a great book super predictor or super predictions what was that book super forecaster super thank you”
Plugged How we got to now
“So, like, you know, in the in the middle of the 19th century, I wrote about this a little bit in How We Got to Now, um, the state of the art look, that was good.”