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Books podcasts were talking about in March 2020
March 2020 book recommendations on popular podcasts ranged from sports history and copywriting guides to artificial intelligence textbooks and spiritual literature. On the Monday Morning Podcast, Bill Burr discussed reading Gary M. Pomerantz's Their Life's Work, a book about the Pittsburgh Steelers, during his time at home. The Rich Roll Podcast featured the host recommending and promoting Inquire Within by In-Q at the conclusion of the episode. On The Joe Rogan Experience, Bryan Callen recommended Joe Newman's Raising Lions while discussing strategies for managing children's behavior and tantrums, and Duncan Trussell shared his enthusiasm for The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche. StarTalk Radio featured a conversation where Jordan Klepper learned about Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff, a book that inspired guest Scott Kelly to pursue science and space exploration when he was young. On My First Million, Shaan Puri recommended Advertising Secrets of the Written Word by Joseph Sugarman as an essential guide for learning copywriting principles. Additionally, the Lex Fridman Podcast featured Anca Dragan discussing Stuart Russell's Artificial Intelligence: a Modern Approach, recalling how reading a PDF copy in high school inspired her interest in AI and robotics, while the host noted a similar formative experience with the same textbook.
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Cycles of Time
Discussed“in your 2010 book cycles of time you suggest that another universe may have existed before the big bang”
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The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.
Discussed“first discovered by Brandon Carter was a theoretical physicist and then developed by philosopher John Wesley I think it might have been discovered initially in the 70s or 80s and Lester wrote this book I think in 96”
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Darkest End of the Street
Discussed“so James Carr was the philosopher who originally articulated this concept of finite and infinite games and when I learned about it it really challenged my view of how the world works”
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Artificial Intelligence: a Modern Approach
Recommended“when I was in 12th grade I got my hands on a PDF copy in Romania of Russell Norvig a I modern approach”
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Digital Gold
Recommended“and theres like nathaniel poppers digital gold which is just about the history of bitcoin”
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Ethereum
Recommended“there's like one and then matthew lysing announced that there's one about the history of ethereum”
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Mastering Ethereum
Recommended“for technical ones and theres andreas antonopoulos as mastering ethereum great”
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The Trouble with Physics
Discussed“he's the author of several books including one that critiques the state of physics and string theory called the trouble with physics and his latest book Einsteins unfinished revolution the search for what lies beyond the quantum”
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Einstein's Unfinished Revolution
Discussed“he's the author of several books including one that critiques the state of physics and string theory called the trouble with physics and his latest book Einsteins unfinished revolution the search for what lies beyond the quantum”
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Time Reborn
Discussed“so I was interested in developing that notion of how science works based on a community and ethics that I told you about and I wrote a draft of a book about that which had several chapters on methodology of science and it was rather academically oriented a book in those chapters were the first part of the book the”
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From Eternity to Here
Discussed“so in that spirit of talked several times with Sean Carroll who's also written an excellent book recently and he kind of he plays around is a big fan of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics”
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Pale Blue Dot
Discussed“if you listen to this podcast you may know that Elon Musk is as well he graciously agreed to read Carl Sagan's words about the pale blue dot in my second conversation with him”
ChooseFI
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Bogle on mutual funds
Discussed“and he had wrote this book called Bogle on mutual funds so I said I got to get this book so I went out and I bought the book”
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The Simple StartUp
Recommended“you know this past week we just talked about we talked with Rob Phelan about his brand new book The Simple startup it's a manual for teachers and students that allows you to over the period course of a semester really help a student create their first entrepreneurial venture and do so kind of with the ethos of a pop-up”
Monday Morning Podcast
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Their Life's Work
Recommended“but I've been working my way through this this book on the pittsburgh steelers called their life's work and it's come to their first playoff game of their first Super Bowl season”
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Blueberries for Sal
Discussed“you know I read I read this book blueberries for Sal for my daughter right she loves that and one morning in Maine was Robert McCluskey whatever the hell his name is I gotta get his name”
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One Morning in Maine
Discussed“and one morning in Maine was Robert McCluskey whatever the hell his name is I gotta get his name right because he's really my these are gonna be books like someday if I live long enough because I'm an old dad to become a grandfather”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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Inquire Within
Recommended“pick up the book inquire within from independent bookstores if you don't have one go to Amazon all that good places go to”
The Rubin Report
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Heartland
Discussed“Mort Sahl wrote a great book years ago called "Heartland".”
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National strategy for influenza pandemic
Discussed“There's a book right here, I can look over and see it's called, "National Strategy for Influenza Pandemics." Like there are books that you can open up like a cookbook and they say, "Here's what you do when there's a pandemic."”
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Genius Kitchen
Discussed“Now, joining me today is a New York Times Best Selling of "Genius Food," and the new book "The Genius Life," Max Lugavere, welcome back to "The Rubin Report."”
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C Is for Consent
Discussed“Books like "Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls" and "C is for Consent," there was that one.”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Tiger King
Discussed“well after watching Tiger King what is your take on keeping Tigers as pets”
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Raising lions
Recommended“yes there's an amazing [ __ ] book by this guy named Joe Newman called raising lions I just read it man”
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John
Discussed“That's one King James book a John baby hit that on acid It's so wonderful It's so trippy Because it's like that's when I really like Christianity clicked for me regardless of its whether it's real or not but that's when I was like okay I get this because the book of John When you read it you're like well”
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The Unabomber's Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future
Discussed“What I'm trying to say is Ted Kaczynski was right Oh my god we all know that he was right Do you ever read his manifesto”
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Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
Discussed“He's written a lot of great books One of them twelve reasons to get out or ten reasons to get off your social media now Really Yeah I wrote a book called uh yep Jaron Lanier Jerry Aaron linear freaking brilliant human man But um you know it's called a ten or twelve kara twelve reasons to get off your”
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Dawn of the New Everything
Discussed“There's a book of his I like better than that called the dawn of the new everything But and that's just him sort of like talking about what it was like working in Silicon Valley back then and his sort of opinions on on this stuff”
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Sleep
Discussed“so I got this book called the Tibetan yoga of dream and sleep well I feel like it's [ __ ] cool”
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High Magick
Discussed“so well he wrote a great book called high magic which is I think that's what's called it's a fantastic book on magic is really the wrong word”
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The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep
Recommended“There's a okay so this is a trip this this is very trippy So I got this book called the Tibetan yoga of dream and sleep Well I feel like it's [ __ ] cool”
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Avventure in Oriente. A Cura Di Luigi Barzini, Jr., Etc. [With Plates, Including a Portrait.].
Recommended“oh my god this super super cool experience especially you have to read in that book”
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The Yugo
Recommended“so one of the best car books ever that John you know Johnny Lee Berman right yes dear friend Johnny had recommended it's called the worst car ever built and it's the story of the Hugo”
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Grasses of the Queen Elizabeth Islands
Discussed“until I read empire of the summer moon and then you know have you read that SG Queens book about the Comanches and about the Texas Rangers”
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Son of the Morning Star
Discussed“and then I read son of the morning star and then I read Black Elk”
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Black Elk Speaks
Discussed“and then I read son of the morning star and then I read Black Elk the black alcohol was particularly fascinating to me because it details life before like before they killed Custer to living on reservations to the desperation”
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Son of the Morning
Discussed“and then i read son of the morning star and then i read black elk”
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Custer Died for Your Sins
Recommended“one of which is vine deloria who is passed on but he he was an attorney and a scholar and wrote a book in the late 60s early 70s called custard died for your sins and it was no it's known as the Indian manifesto right”
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Red Earth, White Lies
Recommended“He also wrote a book called red earth White Lies and he talks about Western science and and it's arrogance of of creating these theories like the Bering Strait land bridge”
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Deadliest Enemy
Discussed“well Michael osterholm who wrote this book deadliest enemy and who was on on Tuesday on the podcast Tuesday he opened up a lot of people's eyes as to like what what the issue is and what what you can do to prevent it”
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The Map That Changed the World
Recommended“This is an amazing story told in a book called the map that changed the world by a Simon Winchester and basically his ideas and his research were kind of hijacked”
StarTalk Radio
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The Right Stuff
Recommended“he was talking a lot about the right stuff and how that was a movie in the book Exactly now he read the book when he was a kid and inspired him to want to be an astronaut to want to engage in science again”
Behind the Bastards
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The Survivor
Discussed“I was given this, mailed this by a fan, and I don't think they sent it weeks ago, so this was just a coincidence that it timed out well with the Corona virus, but it's called The Survivor by Curt Saxon.”
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The Poor Man's James Bond
Discussed“Now, Curt Saxon was a um uh a fringe survivalist lunatic who uh wrote a book called The Poor Man's James Bond and a number of other guides to making improvised weapons and uh and stuff like that.”
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Fireworks & explosives like Granddad used to make
Discussed“Includes, oh my god, fireworks and explosives like granddad used to make. He really likes his granddad seems like a like a trooper. This book has hundreds of formulas and processes for making fireworks, blasting compounds, gunpowder, nitro, gun cotton, etc.”
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Wuhan Coronavirus
Critiqued“One particularly egregious example on their site is the totally credible book Corona virus colon Wuhan Corona virus colon all secrets relliad they misspelled revealed. For just $8.95, this title will provide you with quote the history and ways to combat its spread and prevent another epidemic.”
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Coronavirus Disease
Discussed“Yet another publication titled Coronavirus Disease: A Practical Guide for Preparation and Protection listed the US Department of Health and Human Services, HHS, as its lead author and a non-existent agency, the US Department of Health, as a co-author.”
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Protection of human subjects
Discussed“Yet another publication titled Coronavirus Disease: A Practical Guide for Preparation and Protection listed the US Department of Health and Human Services, HHS, as its lead author and a non-existent agency, the US Department of Health, as a co-author.”
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150 Questions for a Guerrilla
Discussed“The general gave Brown a copy of a book called 150 Questions for a Gorilla, a manual for how to fight an insurgent campaign.”
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Crisis in Our Cities
Discussed“In 1965, philosopher Marray Bookchin published Crisis in Our Cities, a book about the negative consequences of urbanization. Uh in it, he noted, quote, "Man's increased burning of coal and oil is annually adding 600 million tons of carbon dioxide to the air."”
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The Medical Messiahs
Discussed“And the book Medical Messiahs points out that American Rally was one of a number of hawky supporting organizations, all of whom were united by an idea called medical freedom, which is quote defined as the right of every individual to seek treatment from Hawky's clinic”
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You Don't Have to Die
Discussed“Before publishing his biography, you don't have to die, in 1956, Harry claimed that his father had developed the sav on his own in 1908.”
My First Million
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Advertising Secrets of the Written Word
Recommended“the third thing is this book called advertising secrets of the written word by Jo Sugarman it's a great book”
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The Boron Letters
Recommended“when when you mentioned the boron letters and then I just went deep on that”
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Hackers & Painters
Recommended“by the way there's a you know there's probably like 10 blog posts that matter the most If you're gonna do a start-up One of them is the Paul Graham essay Do things that don't scale where he's talking about with Airbnb early on and if you're kind of in the startup world just fast forward 30 seconds But if”
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The Mom Test
Recommended“Just to wrap that up If you want to learn about this stuff I think the best book I've ever read on this is called the mom test yeah I love that a jack recommended me that book yep It's fantastic It's the best tiny book to like a long blog post 50 pages In terms of your business life”
This Week in Startups
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Directory of Members - Western Association of Venture Capitalists
Discussed“she took out a book called the Western Association of venture capital and directory and she circled five names on them and she gave it to me”
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Directory : Castes in Kashmir
Discussed“she took out a book called the Western Association of venture capital and directory and she circled five names on them and she gave it to me”
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Choose Your Own Adventure - Ghost Hunter
Discussed“I really think the interactive audio I don't know if you had these in England when you were growing up but we had these books choose-your-own-adventure did they make it across the pond”
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Being Digital
Discussed“I'm sure that was Nicholas Negroponte days because his whole book being digital was the seminal book he wrote a book called being digital and it was basically the book he handed to people who didn't understand what the internet was”
The Daily Stoic
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Keep Going
Recommended“if you're not a writer or a creative but you're thinking about this I think your most philosophical book is the new one keep going which is like sort of how does one find hope and optimism and structure inside the chaos of the modern world”
Founders
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The Space Barons
Discussed“All the way back on Founders No. 38, I did a podcast on the book Space Parents, and that book goes into the strategies by a bunch of modern-day entrepreneurs and how they build private space companies.”
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Summary & Analysis: The Space Barons by Christian Davenport: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
Discussed“All the way back on Founders No. 38, I did a podcast on the book Space Parents, and that book goes into the strategies by a bunch of modern-day entrepreneurs and how they build private space companies.”
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The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King
Recommended“Okay, so that is from the beginning of the book that I'm going to talk to you about today, which is The Professor, The Banker, and The Suicide King Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time, and it was written by Michael Craig.”
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I'm All In
Recommended“He also wrote his autobiography. It's called I'm All In. So as soon as I read about that, I found the book and I ordered it.”
The Book Review
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Deacon King Kong
Discussed“he'll join us in the studio to discuss Deacon King Kong and how does Rebecca snet approach writing Memoir”
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The Good Lord Bird
Discussed“speaking of fun your last novel the good Lord bird is being turned into a TV series miniseries right by Showtime right starring D Diggs and Ethan Hawk”
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The Mirror & the Light
Discussed“at the top of my list and many people's list was Hillary mantel's the mirror in the light which is her conclusion to her Trilogy about the life of Thomas crom”
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The ice palace
Discussed“don't think the thing I'll mention quickly and secondly because it's so different and strange is this very thin novel called The Ice Palace by a Norwegian writer named tarai vas it's t a r ji and then his last name is V AAS”
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Uncanny Valley
Recommended“and so sort of as a followup to that I'm in the middle of a memoir called uncanny valley by Anna weiner also about a young woman in Silicon Valley”
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Untangled
Recommended“and the third book I also can only take in in bits and I actually think is better best read slowly and that is untangled guiding teenage girls through the seven transitions into adulthood by Lisa Dore”
Modern Wisdom
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Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Discussed“I remember reading remnants of a stock operator when I was a kid and the guy Jesse Livermore who was in that story was rich enough that he drove from his house to Wall Street every day and he had a driver”
