Episode · Invest Like the Best · 2021-06-08

Patrick O'Shaughnessy & Gabriel Leydon: books mentioned on Invest Like the Best #229

Gabriel Leydon - Designing Digital Economies - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 229]

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My guest is Gabe Leydon, who is the co-founder and former CEO of MZ, also known as Machine Zone, the company behind huge games such as Mobile Strike and Game of War. Gabe has spent the last 20 years designing video games and is one of the most original thinkers I have talked to in a long time.

Gabriel Leydon discussed Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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   Amusing Ourselves to Death

   Neil Postman · at 7:26

   Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman is a seminal media theory book arguing that television and modern entertainment culture degrade serious public discourse into superficial amusement.

   Discussed

   “It reminds me of that Neil Postman book, Amusing Ourselves to Death, that Huxley's version of the future was more accurate than Orwell's.”

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