Episode · This Week in Startups · 2022-10-08
Books mentioned on US chip industry update, fixing education, Amazon allegations + OK Boomer | E1580
First up, J+M discuss new developments in the US chip industry, including tighter restrictions on exports and a massive new investment in an upstate NY factory! (4:57) They also cover fixing US education (12:37) and a shocking lawsuit against Amazon.
Molly Wood discussed The Peaceful Pill Handbook by Philip Haig Nitschke and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Peaceful Pill Handbook
Discussed“the recommendation was that the purchaser of SN also by Tagamet which is uh to avoid vomiting up the poison so chemical to keep down the chemical a personal use scale to measure the proper quantity and the Amazon edition of the Peaceful Pill handbook a suicide manual with an entire chapter on how to die by SN”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Freakonomics
“and the earlier you start you're talking about time of day thinking about Literal time of day yeah five would be better ten to five would be perfect for kids and teenage brains right in their biology but the thing is like I read that in that Freakonomics guys book 20 years ago before I even had a kid”