Podcast: People I (Mostly) Admire
Episode: David Epstein Knows Something About Almost Everything | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 35
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.
Range
Buy on Amazon"His second book, Range, discusses the benefits of being a generalist in a world overrun with specialists."
Range
Buy on Amazon"I hadn't really thought about this; even when I read your book, it's not like necessarily we've made a mistake as a society."
Range
Buy on Amazon"To give an example of that short-term long-term trade-off, a study came out too recently for me to get it into my book."
Range
Buy on Amazon"What I took from your book was that there are a lot of forces, parental and societal, that push people towards being quite specialized in what they do."
The Tipping Point
Buy on Amazon"This was back in 2006, when Malcolm argued in The Tipping Point that innovative policing was the reason crime went down in the 1990s."