Episode · My First Million · 2023-12-18
Books mentioned on The 12 Awards Of 2023: No.1 Unsexy Business, Wildest Predictions & More
Andrew Wilkinson recommended Same as Ever by Morgan Housel, and discussed Play Nice but Win by Michael Dell and others and The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman and others. Shaan Puri recommended Churchill by James C. Humes. Sam Parr recommended The Wager by David Grann.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Play Nice but Win
Play Nice but Win by Michael Dell and James Kaplan is a memoir detailing the founding, rapid scaling, and dramatic leadership evolution of Dell Technologies.
Discussed“Like, you read his book, it's all very tame. His public persona is very like, you know, serious and calm and nice and all that kind of stuff. His His book is literally called Play Nice, But Win.”
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Churchill
Churchill by James C.
Recommended“So I'll give you a book that I I liked this year. Um it's called Have you ever read this? It's called Talk like Churchill, Stand like Lincoln. No, what is that? Uh so I go down these random rabbit holes while I try to get better at let's say storytelling or public speaking or you know, things like that.”
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The Wager
The Wager by David Grann is a historical non-fiction book detailing the harrowing 18th-century shipwreck of a British naval vessel and the dramatic mutiny and survival trials that followed.
Recommended“So this year I went on a spree where I read books about people's hardship. So I read The Wager, which was a 10 out of 10. It's about a shipwreck and these guys are stranded for 2 years.”
Where to get it
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The Coming Wave
The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar is a critical examination of artificial intelligence and synthetic biology, warning of the immense disruptive power these technologies pose to global stability and society.
Discussed“So, one book is called The Coming Wave. It's by one of the co-founders of OpenAI, and it's really fascinating.”
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Same as Ever
Same as Ever by Morgan Housel is a popular finance and self-improvement book that explores timeless lessons about risk, opportunity, and human behavior through a collection of short stories.
Recommended“And then on the flip side, at the same time to counterbalance the anxiety of reading that, I've been reading Morgan Housel Morgan Housel's new book, Same As Ever, which is about how things don't change. What are the things that stay the same over the long term?”
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