Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2025-04-28
Books mentioned on How To Win The War Of The Future - Joe Lonsdale - #934
Joe Lonsdale is an entrepreneur, investor, and co-founder of Palantir Technologies. What is Palantir really about?
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Endurance
Endurance by Alfred Lansing is a gripping historical account of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated 1914 Antarctic expedition, detailing the crew's remarkable survival against insurmountable odds.
Discussed“Have you ever read uh Endurance by Alfred Lansing? It's about Sir Ernest Shackleton's crossing of the Antarctic. So it's the best I think the best retelling of that.”
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The Shield of Achilles
Discussed“One of my favorite books was a shield of Achilles, which is like this thousandpage book on constitutional government in Europe and it shows how every time there's like a new form of warfare that's best.”
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Seveneves
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson is an epic science fiction novel that begins with the catastrophic explosion of the moon, forcing humanity to unite and repurpose the International Space Station into a desperate ark for civilization.
Discussed“Well, there's also there's a book called Seven Esses by Neil Stevenson. In in the first line, the moon explodes. So, spoiler alert, the moon explorers in the first line.”
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Seveneves / Seveneves
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson is a sweeping science fiction epic that explores the catastrophic destruction of the Moon and humanity's desperate efforts to survive in orbital space.
Discussed“And uh when I read Seven Eves and I think about that and they're talking about [ __ ] orbital dynamics, dude. Holy [ __ ] like trying to think about the the zenith and the apogee and the way that oh well we've got to do this two more loops in order for us to come back around at”
