Episode · Dwarkesh Podcast · 2022-12-15
Dwarkesh Patel & Nadia Asparouhova: books mentioned on Dwarkesh Podcast
Nadia Asparouhova — Tech elites, democracy, open source, & philanthropy
Nadia Asparouhova is currently researching what the new tech elite will look like at nadia.xyz.
Nadia Asparouhova discussed Working in Public by Nadia Asparouhova. Dwarkesh Patel discussed The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Working in Public
Discussed“That's basically what spurred the writing of my book, because I was like, “Whatever's happening open source right now…” You start with this idea that democracy is great and we should have tons and tons of people participating.”
Where to get it
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The Power Broker
The Power Broker by Robert A.
Discussed“I don't want to repeat myself, because I talked about this on my Byrne episode but we were talking about Robert Caro's books and one interesting thing is this guy was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize before he wrote The Power Broker.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Working in Public
“She is previously the author of Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software and she is currently researching what the new tech elite will look like.”
Passing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“But in reality, it actually turns out it is just one person. Maybe it's a little bit more of a Wizard of Oz type model. It's actually just one person behind the curtain that's doing everything”
Passing Bible
“It's like the Bible where you can just kind of pour over endlessly — What does this mean? What does this mean? You're always told to write very clearly, you're told to write succinctly”