Episode · Dwarkesh Podcast · 2025-03-25
Books mentioned on AMA: career advice given AGI, how I research ft. Sholto & Trenton
I recorded an AMA! I had a blast chatting with my friends Trenton Bricken and Sholto Douglas.
Dwarkesh Patel recommended Robert A. Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson Set by Robert A. Caro.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Robert A. Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson Set
Robert A.
Recommended“What's your favorite history book? There's a wall of them behind you. Oh, obviously the Caro LBJ biographies. The main thing I took away from those books is LBJ had this quote”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged The Scaling Era
“Other news; I have a book launching today, it's called The Scaling Era. I hope one of the questions ends up being why you should buy this book. But we can kill two birds with one stone.”
Plugged The Scaling Era
“So if this episode hopefully will launch Tuesday at the same time as the book- by the way, which you can get at stripe.press/scaling.”
Plugged The Scaling Era
“I gotta sell the book somehow, you know? But you literally do it like Margot Robbie- Yeah, exactly. Explaining the seed mechanism. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So what is scaling?”
Plugged The Scaling Era
“Yeah, yeah, super excited for the book launch. Thank you. The website's awesome by the way. Appreciate it. Stripe.press/scaling”
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