Episode · Conversations with Tyler · 2022-01-26
Tyler Cowen & Stewart Brand: books mentioned on Conversations with Tyler
Stewart Brand on Starting Things and Staying Curious
From psychedelics to cyberculture, hippie communes to commercial startups, and the Whole Earth Catalog to the Long Now Foundation, Stewart Brand has not only been a part of many movements—he was there at the start.
Stewart Brand recommended Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson and The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson and others, and discussed Odysseus by Nikos Kazantzakis, Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson, and Japanese homes and their surroundings by Edward Sylvester Morse.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Odysseus
Discussed“right, yes, orbit the greek, and odysseus the modern sequel and so on which i think i'm the only person who read”
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Aurora
Discussed“but uh kim stanley robinson recently did a book called i think aurora where basically makes your point in my point that uh even if you get people out that far the wear and tear on the social fabric on the biology on everything you cannot isolate a very complex biological system like humans for that long”
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Termination Shock
Recommended“yeah i mean uh the the the new steele newtons and neil stephenson um termination shock is brilliant in terms of um really playing out the geo engineering schemes that are out there”
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The Ministry for the Future
Recommended“and likewise kim stanley robinson uh with the ministry for the future um again beautiful research on what overheating uh wet bulb high temperatures can mean for for human survival in places like india uh”
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Japanese homes and their surroundings
Discussed“i first fell in love with japanese architecture through a book written by a japanese home in its surroundings 1896 by a new englander”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged How Buildings Learn
“well i wrote a whole book called how buildings learn um it's probably my best book and certainly most successful”