Episode · People I (Mostly) Admire · 2022-05-14
Books mentioned on Self-Help for Data Nerds | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 75
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz recommended The Sports Gene by David Epstein, and discussed Don't Trust Your Gut by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and others, Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, and Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Don't Trust Your Gut
Discussed“I sent the book out to a bunch of people and a couple of the writers have been like I want to write about your book but could you do a nerdy makeover for me”
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Freakonomics
Discussed“so Freakonomics I love all your books yeah to be fair just about anything you write at this point is going to get a good advance and pretty good sales”
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The Sports Gene
Recommended“yeah there's this book Sports Gene by David Epstein which I loved so David Epson was a guest he was an excellent guest”
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Discussed“Thomas picketty's book on Capital and Daniel kahneman's book thinking fast and slow and he found that the rate at which sentences were underlined dramatically decreased towards the end of the books I think there were three percent as many underlying lines at the end of thing fast and slow is at the beginning of thing fast and slow”
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Discussed“Thomas picketty's book on Capital and Daniel kahneman's book thinking fast and slow”
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Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Everybody Lies
“Seth parlayed his Harvard PhD thesis which analyzed data on Google searches into a data scientist job at Google and a best-selling book entitled everybody lies”
Passing Don't Trust Your Gut
“now he's back with a brand new book it's called don't trust your gut and it's more or less a self-help book for data nerds”
Plugged Everybody Lies
“and actually everybody lies which is about people lying the final chapter in my book was titled how many people finished books”