Episode · The Daily Stoic · 2026-08-03
Books mentioned on You Don't Want Autonomy With David Epstein
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Range
Range by David J.
Discussed“and your first book was good and and and successful but then range was a a smash like you can now do whatever you want.”
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Boxing Inside the Box
Discussed“And that really reminds me of like in chapter two of inside the box I read about Pixar's three pitches rule where they force directors to pitch three ideas because they found otherwise they just get so attached to their first idea and it usually wasn't their best idea.”
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book Range
“And then after the last one after Range I became a dad and I said I cannot do that again.”
Own book Range
“So, I I'd been so bad even with range, which worked well. I was terrible at like drawing boundaries around my project, which was bad for my personal life, first of all, but also the book probably could have been a little more coherent in some respects.”
Own book Range
“And also, I mean, one thing that's happened, Range is kind of having a little bit of a second life because the the beginning of the book is framed early in this like looking at kind and wicked learning environments in the world like these situations that are sort of more stable.”