Episode · My First Million · 2026-03-09
Books mentioned on Uber's Legendary Investor Explains Who Will Thrive in the AI Era (And Who Won't)
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Power of Regret
The Power of Regret by Daniel H.
Recommended“There's a great book by Daniel Pink called The Power of Regrets. And he has a somewhat similar survey data of longitudinal through people's lives.”
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Mastery
Mastery by Robert Greene is a comprehensive guide that explores the developmental paths of historical and contemporary figures to explain how individuals can achieve true excellence and mastery in their chosen fields.
Discussed“Not just because of your book, but like one of my favorite books is Mastery by Robert Greene. Yes.”
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Grit
Grit by Angela Duckworth is an influential psychology book that explores the profound importance of passion and perseverance in achieving long-term goals.
Discussed“You there's this cool book called Grit. We talked about it a ton here on this podcast and you cite it a bunch.”
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The Coddling of the American Mind
The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt examines how well-intentioned safetyism and cultural shifts, combined with the rise of social media, are setting younger generations up for psychological distress and failure.
Discussed“There's actually a chapter in Jonathan Haidt's book Coddling of the American Mind called the decline of play where we've just we've we it's harder I think for a child to explore and try on different ideas because they're caught up in this game to try and get into college.”
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Range
Range by David J.
Discussed“This was work that Keith Holyoak had done at UCLA and it relates to a lot of the concepts in the back of Range the book by David Epstein”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing One Up On Wall Street
“and like like um when I was an engineer and before I went to Wall Street, it turns out I had read Peter Lynch's One Up On Wall Street.”