📚 16 Books mentioned in "Insights From History's Greatest Thinkers - David Senra" of Modern Wisdom

so one of the craziest books I ever read um was this book called hard drive uh Bill Gates in the building of the Microsoft Empire right

Speaker mentions this book about Bill Gates and the Microsoft Empire, calling it one of the craziest he's read.

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The number one book recommendation I have is James Dyson has two autobiographies right he just wrote a new another one that was published that's not that's a fact I read that book too it's it's great that's not the book his first autobiography that came out at the time Dyson only had it was still only in the UK and he only had one product which was his Cyclone vacuum

Speaker recommends James Dyson's first autobiography as his number one book recommendation, describing its content and themes of struggle and persistence.

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I give uh Eric jorgensen's the almanac and of all a lot away a lot

Speaker lists this book as one he often gifts to people.

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the best one if you only had to read one it's called becoming Steve Jobs the evolution of a reckless upstart to a Visionary leader I think is the turn the title and that's a shorter version

Speaker recommends this specific biography of Steve Jobs as the best one to read if you only read one.

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Let me go back to Edward and I want to tell you about this guy Larry Miller who wrote a book that I think everybody should read it's called driven an autobiography by Larry Miller right

Speaker introduces the book by Larry Miller, calling it a cautionary tale and recommending it.

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That is a cover of Ernest Shackleton this is fantastic book written by Alfred Lansing called endurance right

Speaker shows his phone lock screen, which is the cover of this book about Ernest Shackleton, mentioning the title and author.

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Estee Lauder wrote one of the best autobiographies that you can ever find a complete obsessive her I'm using her Playbook a lot in the way I'm building Founders and like she's just obsessed over customers did things that did not scale she writes the book she dies the PO the company is still a private family company and now it's you know doing like 18 billion dollars of Revenue it's called a success story by Estee Lauder

Speaker mentions Estee Lauder's autobiography, calling it one of the best and describing its usefulness for his work.

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I give uh Eric jorgensen's the almanac and of all a lot away a lot

Speaker lists this book as one he often gifts to people.

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In fact the collection of his essays is you can buy the book it's called hackers and Painters and he's like at the very top levels it's you there's no like painting by numbers

Speaker mentions that a collection of Paul Graham's essays is available as a book with this title.

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but I read this like 700 Page biography which changed my [ __ ] life and it's called uh Michael Jordan uh the life I think by Roland Lazenby

Speaker mentions reading a long biography of Michael Jordan by this author and how it changed his life.

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the code name for what turns into Amazon inside the hedge fund was called the everything store like that is why the biography by Brad Stone is called the everything store

Speaker mentions this book as the biography of Jeff Bezos and the origin of its title.

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so then you go and you read there's not a lot of material on second thing but I read everything I could find and I didn't uh a podcast on this book called The Outsiders which is one of the very few books that profiles what what made Singleton

Speaker mentions reading this book which profiles Henry Singleton and doing a podcast episode about it.

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um there's a fantastic book called The River of Doubt which is a biography on Teddy Roosevelt but it it focuses on him his life after he lost the last presidential election

Speaker lists this book about Teddy Roosevelt as one he often gifts, describing its themes.

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this is great line from will Durant and will and Ariel Durant who've spent their entire life studying human history and in this book called lessons of History they say a great line where it's like in every age governments have been corrupt and men have been dishonest

Speaker quotes a line from this book by Will and Ariel Durant.

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He literally did there's this great book called tycoon's War and it's about this guy I think his name's William Walker

Speaker mentions a book called 'Tycoon's War' about Cornelius Vanderbilt and William Walker, describing a violent conflict.

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Jeff bezos's uh shareholder letters which are absolutely fantastic I've read you know multiple times and then Peter thiel's book zero to one and so I read I spent the last three weeks I read I did three separate episodes on programs essays and I was like you know what I'm gonna re-read zero to one

Speaker mentions Peter Thiel's book and rereading it in the context of studying Paul Graham.

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