Podcast: The Daily Stoic
Episode: David Gelles On Practicing Discipline And The Future Of Corporate America
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.
Jurassic Park
Buy on Amazon"That he, it's like the thing in Jurassic Park, you were thinking so much about whether you could, you didn't ask yourself if you should. Like you were just, it seems like your big argument was like why aren't there other things to value in life?"
The Brass Check, a Study of American Journalism
Buy on Amazon"It's like that expression from Upton Sinclair, who wrote sort of very critically about journalism in one of his great books called The Brass Check, he was saying like it's impossible to get someone to understand something that their salary depends on them not understanding."
How Will You Measure Your Life? (Harvard Business Review Classics)
Buy on Amazon"Clay Christensen, one of the great business consultants of all time, wrote a book on how to measure your life. His whole career was about measuring success in business, but in the end, he tells Harvard MBAs that none of that matters; you have to measure your life by other things."
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
Buy on Amazon"It's these kinds of ripples compounded over generations that explain the country we live in right now. Have you read 'Nomadland'? Yeah, I remember as I was reading it, there's a part of me that was sorting through my capitalistic side and trying to understand how it could be this person's fault."