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Books podcasts were talking about in November 2019
November 2019 book discussions centered on mental strategy, literary awards, and specialized guides across multiple programs. Joe Rogan and Firas Zahabi spoke on The Joe Rogan Experience about Lanny Bassham's visualization manual "With Winning in Mind." The Book Review dedicated an episode to their ten best books of the year, featuring Gilbert Cruz introducing Leo Damrosch's "The Club," Gal Beckerman recommending Doug Bock Clark's "The Last Whalers," and Greg Cowles highlighting Ilya Kaminsky's poetry collection "Deaf Republic." Susan Dominus also appeared on The Book Review to discuss Nancy Hale's short story collection "Where the Light Falls," edited by Lauren Groff. On the Lex Fridman Podcast, host Lex Fridman credited Gilbert Strang's textbook "Introduction to Linear Algebra" with shaping his understanding of artificial intelligence tools. Business and specialized shows also featured book references, with Faraz Jaka mentioning Doyle Brunson's poker classic "Super System" on My First Million, and Chris Williamson promoting Paul Bloom's "How Pleasure Works" in an episode of Modern Wisdom.
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Learning How To Learn
Critiqued“Terry Sejnowski for example in his recent book says this vindicates Skinnerian behaviors and it doesn't have anything to do with it.”
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Introduction to Linear Algebra
Recommended“I remember doing the exercises in his book introduction of linear algebra and slowly realizing that the world of matrices of vector spaces of determinants and eigenvalues of geometric transformations and matrix decompositions reveal a set of powerful tools in the toolbox of artificial intelligence”
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The Ethical Algorithm
Discussed“well in your new book ethical algorithm you kind of sneak up from a algorithmic perspective on these deep profound philosophical questions of fairness of privacy in thinking about these topics”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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With winning in mind
Recommended“he wrote a great book called with the winning in mind one of the best books in the game”
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The Franklin Scandal
Discussed“it's a very smart guy who wrote the Franklin scandal which is a book about the original epstein thing”
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The Blue Zones
Discussed“Dan Buettner Geographic fellow popularized the idea that there's these five geographic regions the plan of where people live longer and without chronic disease than any other place on the planet so I was out there last week at the BRIT the brain health and Alzheimer clinic and there's two researchers that started when there wasn't one for miles around”
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Songs of the Humpback Whale
Discussed“do you want to Jimmy pull up like songs of the humpback whale”
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The Real Pepsi Challenge
Discussed“and they it's a book called this call is a book called the real Jamie pop it up the real Pepsi challenge the real Pepsi challenge there to us How one pioneering company broke the color barrier in 1940's American businesses”
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Charlemagne
Recommended“and then when i got back to camp boom and i realized through that camp and also reading charlemagne's book as well the shook ones”
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The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine
Discussed“I'm listening to this book on tape on my friend Steve Rinella about it's called the American Buffalo I think it's called American Buffalo sounds awesome”
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Free Speech
Discussed“it certainly is nadine strossen who i think used to be something at the ECL you wrote a book about speech and about how in Germany you're not allowed to fly the swastika”
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Command and Control
Discussed“Eric Schlosser wrote this book and documentary is fascinating history of accidents and close calls is nuts”
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Last Child in the Woods
Recommended“and he wrote a book her last child in woods is my Bible changed my life”
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Chasing the Scream
Discussed“like Johann Hari in his book he's been out here chasing The Scream”
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Tihkal
Discussed“Sasha Shogun has those books called P Cal and T Cal which are basically cookbooks and know how to make all his psychedelics”
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The Star Wars: Die Urfassung
Discussed“when I read the book to which a Cameron publishing who did the book in and Jonathan Rinzler who wrote it who did he interviewed me a lot and he also went back to old articles and all things at the time and did a really nice job of weaving the story together”
The Book Review
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The Club
Recommended“it is the club by Leo Dam Rush”
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The Last Whalers
Recommended“it's called the last Whalers by Doug Bach Clark”
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Deaf Republic
Recommended“it's called deaf Republic”
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The Yellow House
Discussed“Sarah broom her Memoir the yellow house won and there was a huge outpouring of cheers”
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The Peanuts Papers
Discussed“it is called the peanuts papers writers and cartoonists on Charlie Brown Snoopy and the Gang and the meaning of life”
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Richard Nixon : the life
Discussed“it's a one volume biography of Richard Nixon”
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Youtubers
Discussed“was a book called YouTubers by Chris stokel Walker who's a British tech journalist”
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Where the Light Falls
Recommended“The Collection is called where the light falls selected stories of Nancy hail”
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No Stopping Us Now
Discussed“Gail Collins will be here to talk about her new book No Stopping Us Now The Adventures of older women in American history”
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The Funny Thing
Discussed“but this one is called the funny thing and it's just about this really odd creature and someone trying to persuaded to eat anything other than dolls”
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The mean mouse, and other mean stories
Discussed“but this one is called the mean Mouse and other mean stories and it's just got a vicious looking rodent on the cover”
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The War Comes Home
Discussed“one of them is called home records by Aaron glance and the other is called race for profit by kianga yamat Taylor”
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Race for Profit
Discussed“one of them is called home records by Aaron glance and the other is called race for profit by kianga yamat Taylor”
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In the Dream House
Discussed“uh I reviewed a book by Carmen Maria Machado it's called in the dream housee and Machado is a young writer”
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Edison
Discussed“David osinsky will be here to discuss the new biography Edison by the late Edmund Morris”
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Home
Discussed“the books are DIY Moors Inside Out homework A Memoir of my Hollywood years by Julie Andrews and touched by the sun my friendship with Jackie by Karly Simon”
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Touched by the Sun
Discussed“the books are DIY Moors Inside Out homework A Memoir of my Hollywood years by Julie Andrews and touched by the sun my friendship with Jackie by Karly Simon”
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New Grub Street
Discussed“I'm reading new grub Street still which I talked about last week by George gissing but it's a 550 page novel so and it's easy to kind of pick it up”
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A Pocket History of Human Evolution
Discussed“it's called a pocket history of human evolution how we became sapiens it's by a couple of French writers a scientist named svana kemi and a journalist named franois savatier”
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The rules do not apply
Recommended“her own Memoir which was called the rules do not apply which I loved I don't know if you read”
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Life
Recommended“I mean I loved the Keith Richards I read that a life I read that through and through”
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The Good Story
Recommended“the Nobel prize winning writer JM cuta and a woman named Arabella Curts co-wrote a book called the good story exchanges on Truth fiction and Psychotherapy”
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Flights
Recommended“I am reading flights by Olga taruk this book came out in English last year and then when she won the Nobel Prize”
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This Is Pleasure
Recommended“the fiction is a Nolla by Mary gateskill called This is pleasure officially the book comes out next week I think on Tuesday next week”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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It All Turns on Affection
Discussed“so I was a sort of a book that wendell berry wrote called it all turns on a affection and and I think that that that way into this conversation is so important”
The Rubin Report
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Loserthink
Discussed“Joining me today is the creator of the legendary Dilbert comic strip and the author of the new book "Loser Think".”
Behind the Bastards
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Kaiser Wilhelm II
Discussed“Kaiser Vilhelm II, a concise life, describes the mindsight all of this resulted in once the young man came to power and was given a the world's most powerful land army.”
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Skeleton Justice
Discussed“Jake's careful forensic examinations, Manny's courtroom tenaciousness, and an unusual clue suggesting that a high-ranking politician has risen from the grave. Take the pair from the bowels of the morg to the world of international intrigue.”
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Psychosurgery
Discussed“This book, Psychosoy and the Treatment of Mental Disorders and Intractable Pain, made an enormous splash in the world of medicine when it was first published in 1950.”
My First Million
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Doyle Brunson's Super System
Recommended“And, you know, Dora Brunson, super system, he'll talk about that a lot.”
Modern Wisdom
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The Institute
Discussed“so you know I'm I'm reading a Stephen King novel now the Institute and a lot of those this boy who's trapped up he's been kidnapped”
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How Pleasure Works
Recommended“how pleasure works all of Professor blooms socials”
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Low Back Disorders
Discussed“and that was because that wasn't not based on thousands and thousands and thousands of hours of experience in grad school and lifetime being an athlete and all the coaches and McGill you know I had Stewart McGill's book in the loo when I was a physio student and I read it cover-to-cover 20 times”
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The Cathedral & the Bazaar
Recommended“So there was this guy wrote an essay called called the Cathedral and the Bazaar his name is Eric Raymond I was told to read this it's still a great thing to read”
Freakonomics Radio
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Inside the nudge unit
Discussed“In your book Inside the Nudge Unit, you mentioned a few ideas that fell on political grounds.”
EconTalk
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THE ECONOMIC NATURALIST
Recommended“and Robert Frank I think his book the economic naturalist was a real eye-opener for me and this because he taught me there's more than one way of looking at these things”
