Episode · Invest Like the Best · 2019-01-22
Patrick O'Shaughnessy & Eugene Wei: books mentioned on Invest Like the Best #118
Eugene Wei – Tech, Media, and Culture - [Invest Like the Best, EP.118]
My guest this week, Eugene Wei, has one of the most interesting backgrounds of anyone I’ve had on the podcast. He worked at Amazon early in its life, was the head of product at Hulu and Flipboard, and head of video and Oculus.
Eugene Wei recommended Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman and The Most Human Human by Brian Christian, and discussed Cuisine and Empire by Rachel Laudan.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Cuisine and Empire
Discussed“It was inspired by a podcast I had heard about this book, Cuisine and Empire.”
Where to get it
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Amusing Ourselves to Death
Recommended“Neil Postman wrote Amusing Ourselves to Death, which is this amazing book. And one of the most, the opening pages of that book are some of the most memorable of any book.”
Where to get it
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The Most Human Human
Recommended“I went so far as to actually, there's this great book called The Most Human Human, which was about a person who entered the Turing contest.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The Lessons of History
“So if you go read Will Durant's Lessons of History, a very short book, one of the big sine waves through history is this equality-inequality pendulum.”