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Books podcasts were talking about in June 2020
In June 2020, podcasts such as the Lex Fridman Podcast and All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg highlighted a diverse array of literature centering around computer architecture, creative struggles, historical fiction, and political memoirs. On the Lex Fridman Podcast, computer scientist David Patterson discussed his foundational textbook Computer Architecture, co-authored with John L. Hennessy, which served as an early introduction to machine mechanics. Lex also mentioned Frank Abagnale's Catch Me If You Can during discussions regarding interview guests. Creativity and resistance formed a major theme when author Steven Pressfield discussed several of his works on the show, including Turning Pro, Do the Work!, Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t, and the historical fiction novel Tides of War, which explores the Spartans and the Battle of Thermopylae. In a separate episode, Joscha Bach analyzed Ludwig Wittgenstein's unique philosophical writing style and the absence of traditional arguments within it. Meanwhile, the hosts of All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg turned their attention to current events and political publishing by discussing the controversial claims made in John Bolton's memoir, The Room Where It Happened, specifically addressing allegations regarding foreign policy and political strategy. Together, these selections reflected a broad intellectual curiosity spanning rigorous technical education, artistic discipline, historical narrative, and contemporary political critique.
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Computer Architecture
Discussed“he's also one of the great educators of computer science in the world his book with John Hennessy is how I first learned about and was humbled by the inner workings of machines at the lowest level”
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Catch Me If You Can
Discussed“he's interviewed Kobe Bryant Mark Cuban and Neil deGrasse Tyson and Garry Kasparov and many more I recently listened to his conversation with Frank Abagnale author of catch me if you can one of the world's most famous Kahneman”
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Turning Pro
Discussed“and others of his books on this topic including turning pro do the work”
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Do the Work!
Discussed“and others of his books on this topic including turning pro do the work”
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Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t
Discussed“nobody wants to read your shit and the Warrior Ethos”
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Tides of War
Discussed“also his books gets a fire about the Spartans and the Battle of Thermopylae the Lionsgate tides of war and others are some of the best historical fiction novels ever written”
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Discussed“If you read the attract address It's a very beautiful book but capacity one salt on 75 pages it's very non typical for philosophy because it doesn't have arguments in it and it doesn't have references in it”
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Philosophical Investigations
Discussed“The thing that Wittgenstein couldn't solve and he looked at this in his book at the end of his life philosophical investigations was the notion of images”
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Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué
Discussed“and there's a much darker one Eugene a story what happened so when Dean is a mermaid or a water woman she lives on ground off a river and she meets this prince and they fall enough”
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
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The art of John Bolton
Discussed“Can we talk by the way could we just talk about this Bolton book I mean what the [ __ ] I mean he he did ask you jimping to help him win the election and he bartered buy soybeans to help me win the election I mean this is insane I think I think we need to we need”