Episode · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2026-11-05
Books mentioned on Lucky #888 — My Tour of Designing Luck in China, Japan, and Korea
For episode #888, I couldn’t resist going down a rabbit hole about the number eight and what it can tell us about luck, language, money, and fate.
Tim Ferriss discussed The Book of revelation by Rupert Thomson.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Book of revelation
The Book of Revelation is the final book of the New Testament, featuring apocalyptic imagery, prophecies of the end times, and spiritual warnings.
Discussed“the sign of evil or the number of the beast in the west and that comes from the book of revelation chapter 13 verse 18 and that is related to challenging the reader to calculate the number of the beast”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“i thought about doing some live casting of the eaching the oldest of the chinese classics it's a long story maybe we'll come back to that”
“if you're into all this bizarre stuff like i am you know hop into chinese numerology on wikipedia check out that page and maybe i will come back to that eaching live casting because that is a weird book if you can even call it a book”