Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2025-04-28
Chris Williamson & Joe Lonsdale: books mentioned on Modern Wisdom #934
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?
Chris Williamson discussed Endurance by Alfred Lansing and Seveneves by Neal Stephenson. Joe Lonsdale recommended The Shield of Achilles by W. H. Auden, and discussed Seveneves / Seveneves by Neal Stephenson.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Endurance
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
Recommended“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
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
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”
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