Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2021-06-10
Books mentioned on Learn To Improve Your Decision Making - Julia Galef - #332
Julia Galef is the co-founder of the Center for Applied Rationality, a podcaster and an author. Boris Johnson’s former chief adviser Dominic Cummings said that tens of thousands of Covid deaths could have been prevented if the Government had read Julia's book.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Adrift
Adrift by Steven Callahan is a gripping memoir detailing the author's harrowing seventy-six-day ordeal surviving alone on a inflatable life raft in the Atlantic Ocean after his sailboat sank.
Recommended“and now his memoirs are this amazing book called adrift which is a story of how he survived both logistically and emotionally”
Where to get it
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The Red Rising Series Collection 5 Books Set by Pierce Brown (Red Rising, Golden Son, Morning Star, Iron Gold, Dark Age)
The Red Rising Series by Pierce Brown is an epic science fiction saga set in a deeply stratified, color-coded futuristic society governed by a ruthless ruling class.
Discussed“so i was reading red rising which is a series by pierce brown it's just a sci-fi fiction series that i've addicted half of the audience to”
Where to get it
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The Scout Mindset
The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef is a popular psychology and rationalist book that examines why some people see things clearly while others do not, contrasting the defensive soldier mindset with the objective scout mindset.
Recommended“ladies and gentlemen the scout mindset will be linked in the show notes below why some people see things clearly and others don't”
Where to get it
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“and now his memoirs are this amazing book called adrift which is a story of how he survived both logistically and emotionally”