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Books podcasts were talking about in March 2021
March 2021 conversations across multiple podcasts highlighted notable works on resilience, communication, and cryptocurrency. On The Rubin Report, Dave Rubin brought up Andy Ngo's book Unmasked while discussing a controversy involving Laurence Fox and Winston Marshall. Modern Wisdom featured Chris Williamson mentioning Greg Everett's book Tough as a valuable resource for completing a core values exercise. StarTalk Radio included Neil deGrasse Tyson recommending Scott Kelly's Endurance right before heading into a commercial break. On The Dr. John Delony Show, Dr. John Delony recommended Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler in response to an audience member seeking guidance on handling difficult conversations. A major discussion on books took place when Anthony Pompliano appeared on the Lex Fridman Podcast, where he praised Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air as one of the best books ever written, while discussing mortality and time. During the same appearance, Pompliano highlighted several resources focused on cryptocurrency and economics, including Jason Williams' book Bitcoin: Money You Can't Fuck With, Isaiah Jackson's Bitcoin & Black America, which outlines asymmetric benefits for the Black community, and Jeff Booth's The Price of Tomorrow, referred to as The Cost of Tomorrow during the discussion.
Lex Fridman Podcast
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The Mathematics of Poker
Discussed“and that that he wrote a book called the mathematics of poker that i started reading and that first of all kick started my interest in game theory and second of all in poker”
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The Richest Man in Babylon
Discussed“i read when i was 20 actually sitting in the desert of iraq um rich dad poor dad think and grow rich and the richest man in babylon”
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When Breath Becomes Air
Recommended“and then i think one of the best books probably ever written is uh i think it's called when breath becomes air um or air becomes breath”
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Jason Williams Book
Recommended“there is uh bitcoin uh money you can't fuck with uh it's written by our friend jason williams uh as you can imagine it's basically what it talks about”
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Bitcoin & Black America
Recommended“there's a book called bitcoin in black america written by a guy isaiah jackson and he basically lays out the argument for why the black community can benefit in a asymmetric way from something like bitcoin”
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The Price of Tomorrow
Recommended“there's the uh i think it's called the cost of tomorrow a guy uh jeff booth uh jeff booth wrote it”
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The Dao of Capital
Recommended“the number one book that i've ever read uh that aligns with bitcoin ethos but doesn't say a word about bitcoin is a book called the dao of capital by mark spitznagel”
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Prophets of Human Solidarity
Recommended“so uh i i'll give you a a couple uh so one is uh contingency irony and solidarity by richard wardy he's a he's passed away now but was a philosopher at some of our major institutions princeton harvard stanford um contingency irony and solidarity at least that's a book that really helped me work through um a series of”
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Crime and Punishment
Recommended“but the the other book i was going to say is dostoevsky's crime and punishment and uh i mean i've always wanted to go to saint pete's uh just to sort of see with my own eyes what the word pictures that dostoevsky created in crime and punishment”
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Contingency, irony, and solidarity
Recommended“so uh i i'll give you a a couple uh so one is uh contingency irony and solidarity by richard wardy he's a he's passed away now but was a philosopher at some of our major institutions princeton harvard stanford”
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The Book of Five Rings
Discussed“...axioms that have come down through things like the book of five rings or the art of war or you know like von klosterwicz even anything like that”
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The Divine Comedy
Discussed“but being italian one thing that really impressed me tremendously is the divine comedy it is a medieval poem a very long poem divided in three parts hell purgatory in paradise”
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Geek Silicon Valley
Discussed“just like in how he built like i read a biography of him”
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Mawson's Will
Discussed“i read another one recently called mawson's will douglas mawson”
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The Gathering Storm
Discussed“only churchill he was the only one in the you know in the gathering storm like being like hey this is really bad”
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Hitler
Recommended“he showed up to this conversation with a gift of the second volume of ian kershaw's biography on hitler a two-volume set that is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest if not the greatest most definitive studies of hitler”
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The Third Reich in Power
Recommended“and look third reich in power Let me plug it by richard uh richard evans I think is what it was because that actually will tell you like what was it like to live under the nazi regime without the war”
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Robert A. Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson Set
Recommended“I'm obsessed with these books um by robert carro the biographies of lyndon johnson”
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Grant
Recommended“ron chernow ron chernow's grant It's a thousand pages”
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Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Recommended“the book that probably had the most impact on me which is also a historical nonfiction is i am obsessed with antarctic exploration and it all began with a book called shackleton's incredible journey which is the collection of diaries of everybody who was on shackleton's journey”
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Digital Minimalism
Discussed“he doesn't use social media and in his book digital minimalism he encourages people to find the right amount of social media usage that provides value and joy”
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The Ethics of Aristotle
Discussed“i mean aristotle talked about this if you go back and and read the ethics he's trying to understand the meaning of life”
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Amusing Ourselves to Death
Discussed“have you read neil postman at all have you read like amusing ourselves to death it was a social critic technology critic um and wrote a lot about sort of technological determinism”
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Quantum Computing since Democritus
Discussed“well in the case of scott anderson he's good he's able to turn on like the inner troll and comedian and so on”
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The Language of God
Discussed“i mean this is francis collins book also he's like well that's a religious that could be a very religious notion”
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The Second Mountain
Discussed“his second mountain wrote the character about these books or he has this whole premise of there's like this professional phase”
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The Hagakure
Discussed“to be perfectly honest i mean reading the hagakure going back to philosophy books This was really impactful on me as a younger adult Because here's a book written in the 19th century about someone who lived through the 19th and 18th century at times as a samurai now a monk And his objections to society at the time the”
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Wrestling Tough
Discussed“there's a book called wrestling tough yeah this is a really good book there's i've encountered in my life a few especially in wrestling people who really tried to find a way to use anger to get really angry at their opponent”
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Discussed“well there was an example in the spoke zarathustra about a snake being down the person's throat and biting it and then having this maniacal laughter erupting”
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The Outfit
Recommended“derived from a book by called the outfit by ah what is his name uh i forget but darwin cook the comics illustrator he did donald westlake wrote so darwin cooked is does an amazing comic book send up of darwin cook's novels And they are fucking incredible”
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No Country for Old Men
Recommended“and this is which also is part of the reason why i like no country for old men so much which i felt was a great great great movie even better book”
Timcast IRL
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King James Bible
Discussed“at least with christianity there's a bible and people can follow tenets and understand and read through it and i certainly believe there are instances where people selectively you know will choose to follow some things but there's literally a bible you can look at it and yes it's been re-translated and changed i'm critical of that but for now”
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The 5000 Year Leap
Recommended“you should read the 5 000 year leap by cleon skusen”
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World War Z
Discussed“i remember reading max brooks world war z it's a very entertaining book”
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Artorian's Archives Omnibus
Recommended“a few streams ago someone was asking about book recommendations i recommend the author dakota kraut tim and friends might particularly like the artorians archive series think john wick as a philosopher foster parent in a medieval setting with magic”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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The Better World Shopping Guide
Discussed“my sister actually many years ago before I started my foundation, before I started any of this stuff, she gave me this book called "The Better World Shopping Guide," which I think is out of print now but at the time was this incredible resource where for any consumer product, including banking and things like that, you could flip through”
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Seven Summits
Discussed“I don't know if you've ever read the book, "The Seven Summits" by Dick Bass. He was the first person-”
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Energy
Discussed“I just finished this book "Energy and Civilization," this like Vaclav Smil's, like this super dense tome about sort of the progression of different energy systems in human civilization.”
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Energy and Civilization
Discussed“I just finished this book "Energy and Civilization," this like Vaclav Smil's, like this super dense tome about sort of the progression of different energy systems in human civilization.”
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The 30-Day Alzheimer's Solution
Discussed“so today they returned to bring us up to speed on the latest science on brain health to discuss their brand new book which is called the 30-day alzheimer's solution and of course to provide you with all the information and the tools and the lifestyle prescriptions that you need to avoid these neurodegenerative diseases”
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The Searchers
Discussed“Or what can I steal from "The Searchers?"”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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First Man In
Discussed“and um when i was reading your book first man in there was um there's this quote at the end of one of the chapters”
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The idiot brain
Recommended“and then the best thing that she did was she went this book it was called the idiot brain and it explains how your body reacts to the feeling of like anxiety and like depression and let you know the whole fight or flight type thing”
ChooseFI
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Superfans
Discussed“and you uh mentioned Grant Kelly and I want to go back to um Pat Flynn and that's where I got this idea of super fans from”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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Your Time to Thrive
Discussed“So, Jay, actually, out of all the hundreds of micro steps in the book, my absolute favorite is to pick a time at the end of the day that you declare the end of your work day.”
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, Revised and Updated Edition
Discussed“I'm the type person if I see a book like The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck I'm going to read that book, you know what I mean? I'm like, oh, that's a dope title. Like that grabbed me... Mark Manson. Sold goddamn over 2 million copies.”
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Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Part Ll
Discussed“First question, what do you think is the greatest hip-hop album of all time? Only Built 4 Cuban Linx by Raekwon the Chef.”
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Thrive
Discussed“and i want to go back to your book that you called thrive it's a book that i believed when i read it i just felt i was like i can't believe someone's actually put this all into words it was i connected so deeply with it”
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The Sleep Revolution
Recommended“i love that because when i started reading your books which i highly recommend sleep revolution and thrive like they're two of my favorite books”
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Emotional Agility
Discussed“her most recent book emotional agility describes the psychological skills critical to thriving in times of complexity and change”
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Redeeming Love
Recommended“my favorite book right now is called uh redeeming love by francine rivers it's a christian book i've read that one four times life changing redeeming love”
The Rubin Report
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Unmasked
Recommended“He's the one who dared to recommended Andy Ngo's scary book about Antifa.”
No Stupid Questions
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Um. . .
Discussed“I know there's a linguist named Michael erard who wrote a book called um slips stumbles and verbal blunders and what they mean and he makes the interesting note that here I'll read a pit with a few exceptions people didn't really start talking about um or complaining about it until the Advent of voice recording”
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Type A behavior
Discussed“the theory was based on years of research showing that people who had certain personality traits which they grouped as type A like impatience and irritability were significantly more prone to heart attacks than those with more relaxed go with the flow type B personality traits in 1974 they published a book about their findings called type a behavior and”
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Treating Type A Behavior and Your Heart
Discussed“the theory was based on years of research showing that people who had certain personality traits which they grouped as type A like impatience and irritability were significantly more prone to heart attacks than those with more relaxed go with the flow type B personality traits in 1974 they published a book about their findings called type a behavior and”
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Type A Behavior and Your Heart
Discussed“in 1974 they published a book about their findings called type a behavior and your heart”
Modern Wisdom
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Personality Isn't Permanent
Discussed“i had dr benjamin hardy on the show uh discussing his book personality isn't permanent about a year ago”
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Tough
Recommended“whether it's through greg's book tough which will be linked in the show notes below or taylor pearson's uh core values exercise which you can get online or whatever it is like you need to do it”
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Elon Musk
Discussed“and to me i i read the whole like for example not to go off this tangent but i i read ashley vance's biography um on elon musk and my one question was why is he in this relationship pattern”
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Elon Musk and the Quest for a Fantastic Future Young Readers' Edition
Discussed“and to me i i read the whole like for example not to go off this tangent but i i read ashley vance's biography um on elon musk and my one question was why is he in this relationship pattern”
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Grt Trials of the 20th Century
Discussed“I mean augustine invents the sense of self the interior self that we now think is natural... You can see kerry's book on it is beautiful”
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Change in view
Discussed“if you tried to be bayesian right you would you that's computationally intractable you'd be call it combinatorially explosive you can't do it”
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Collision of Wills
Discussed“there was a sociologist roger gould he wrote this book um collision of wills where he actually i mean his whole book is about that specific question about like when is conflict most likely to arise between individuals”
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Codes of the underworld
Discussed“i've also been reading this book um by diego ambada codes of the underworld about uh criminals and he documents research in prisons and finds that um when prisoners don't know each other fights are way more likely to break out”
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Minds Make Societies
Discussed“there's even (researchers) i think pascal boyer he has suggested so he had his book mines make societies and he suggested that uh it's actually advantageous to exaggerate”
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Hedonistic Imperative
Discussed“his book the hedonistic imperative which i believe you can access the entire text of it online it was written back in the 90s i believe”
StarTalk Radio
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Endurance
Recommended“but uh scott kelly's book is a year in space a lifetime of discovery definitely check it out”
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The Smallest Lights in the Universe
Discussed“i only recently learned that you've actually collected that together in a kind of a memoir the smallest lights in the universe so congratulations on that memoir nice published by crown in 2020”
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Cosmic Queries
Discussed“also by the way uh we should mention that our guest today isn't the only one with a new book out and you've got a book based on cosmic queries that has a chapter that talks about the search for life oh yes indeed so thanks for mentioning that because i almost forgot i probably wouldn't have forgotten by the”
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The God Particle
Discussed“he wanted to write a call his book the goddamn particle because i hadn't found it yet and his publisher made him change it to the god particle which he said ended up alienating two groups those that believed in god and those that didn't”
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The Future of Us
Recommended“and your author of the book i have to give this a shout out the future of us what the dreams of children mean to 21st century america”
The Book Review
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Tell Me a Riddle
Discussed“Tilly olssen is a uh a writer who's best known for a collection of short stories called tell me a riddle which was published in the early 1960s”
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Yonnondio: from the thirties
Discussed“she also wrote a novel or a novel was published that she had written earlier in the 1930s called yon Ando which is often taught in University classes now like in in literature of the depression”
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Silences
Discussed“there's a very important essay she wrote which I talk about in the piece called silences which is the what she did when she was at the Radcliffe Institute”
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Studs Lonigan
Discussed“I mean I think about writers in in the 30s like James frell in the lonigan trilogy I don't know if it's as read as it used to be but it's a powerful account of a workingclass life”
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Life in the Iron Mills
Discussed“and there was also a writer in the 19th century who Olsen herself sort of rediscovered Rebecca Harding Davis who wrote a book called life in the iron Mills in the early 1860s about Factory life”
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The Ravine
Discussed“she is the author of Hitler's Furies German women in the Nazi Killing Fields and her new book is called the Ravine a family a photograph a holocaust Massacre revealed”
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100 Boyfriends
Discussed“I reviewed 100 boyfriends by brones Perell who is this polymathic artist”
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Until Justice Be Done
Discussed“I reviewed a book called until Justice be done by Kate merer and she's a historian at Northwestern and her subtitle is America's first Civil Rights Movement from the revolution to reconstruction”
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AMORALMAN
Discussed“Derek delgadio joins us now his new book is called a moral man a true story and other lies”
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French Braid
Discussed“and so one deal that happened recently that caught my eye cuz it sounds fascinating is a new book by Anne Tyler which won't be out until 2022 it's going to be from Koff her usual publisher and it sounds very much like your classic kind of an Tyler novel it's called french braid”
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I Miss You, I Hate This
Discussed“another novel that's coming out it's a young adult novel that sounds really interesting by Sarah sedi is called I miss you I hate you”
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Rez Dogs
Discussed“one is a middle- grade book it's called res dogs by Joseph bruk and it takes place during the pandemic on a reservation”
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Solo
Discussed“and a self-help book about how to work home alone effectively by the journalist Rebecca seal it's called solo how to work alone and not lose your mind which I'm sure will be very helpful to a lot of people”
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An Empire of Their Own
Discussed“I've become very interested in Hollywood Chronicles and that got me to Neil gabler's book an Empire of their own which came out in the late 80s”
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My Heart
Recommended“I am reading a novel called my heart art by the Bosnian writer seisin movich”
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Four Lost Cities
Discussed“Annalie neitz will join us to discuss four Lost Cities a secret history of the urban age”
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Behold the Dreamers (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel
Discussed“did you start this before your 2016 debut novel Behold The Dreamers came out”
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Autonomous
Discussed“so I kind of had all of these feelings stored up from years of doing fact-based journalism and poured that into my first novel autonomous which is about a robot who is cient”
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The Future of Another Timeline
Discussed“and then I worked on another novel called future of another timeline and I was writing that simultaneously with four lost cities”
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Lucky
Discussed“I reviewed a book called lucky how Joe Biden barely won the presidency by Jonathan Allen and Amy parns two journalists they're the authors of shattered which came out four years ago”
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Shattered
Discussed“they're the authors of shattered which came out four years ago which some listeners might remember it was about the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016 and basically how everything went wrong for her”
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The Empathy Diaries
Recommended“but her new book The empathy Diaries is a memoir and it's beautiful it is simply beautiful it works on so many levels”
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A Pale View of Hills
Discussed“and there's a very very poignant subplot in ishiguro's first novel a pale view of Hills that's about this”
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And to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street
Discussed“probably the best known of the six titles was and to think that I saw it on mulber street because that was his debut as a children's book author”
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The View from Castle Rock
Discussed“I guess you would say I'm reading a late book by Alice Monroe called the view from Castle Rock which was published in 2006”
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Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories
Discussed“it's a penguin Classics Collection and I I started reading it around Halloween because like many people in quarantine there's a certain sameness to the days”
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The Romance of Certain Old Clothes
Discussed“the romance of certain old clothes is like many james' stories about marriage and class and power”
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The last of the Valerii
Discussed“the weirdest story in here to my mind was the last of the Valeri which is it's got a great title”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Two Meals a Day
Discussed“i got a book two meals a day yeah what is the idea behind that why why two meals a day”
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Rejection Proof
Discussed“one of the books i listened to on the way out a guy lives in austin uh zha zhing or zhao zhang wrote a book called uh rejection proof where he was born in beijing and he lives in austin and he was trying to be an entrepreneur but he found himself afraid of rejection”
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Hacking Darwin
Recommended“and your book uh hacking Darwin it's available everywhere go get it it's excellent”
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Looseleaf for Drugs, Society, and Human Behavior
Discussed“there's a guy named dr carl hart who was recently on my podcast has been on in the past who wrote a book called uh dru drugs for grown ups i have it over here somewhere”
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Nancy Drew
Discussed“i heard nancy drews and you know be on a journey with her trying to figure out who the bad guys are it was fun it was interesting”
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When Harry Became Sally
Discussed“it makes me feel the way you know when amazon stopped selling when harry turned sally or harry returning to sally you know a book like that”
The Dr. John Delony Show
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Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition
Recommended“so um here's two classic books i'm gonna pull them up here um and james we'll link to these in the show notes the book one is crucial conversations tools for talking when stakes are high by patterson greeny and and etc”
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Brave
Discussed“so your most recent book brave a teen's girl's guide to beating worry and anxiety tell me about the origin of this”
Behind the Bastards
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The White Rajah
Discussed“I should note here that James sending Badrudine away was practical because he trusted the prince and he wanted him to help him like take over this country but it also fit part of a pattern that Brooke had with the young men he fell in love with the Brook the book White Braza describes this pattern”
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King Solomon's Mines
Discussed“It's hard not like I was raised on a lot of imp like I read a lot like King Solomon's minds and stuff. I've talked about this in one episode. these books about like the the age of exploration and adventure”
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White Rajah
Discussed“His biographer Nigel Barley notes, quote, India became, to the Hullbrook dynasty, an enduring and terrible example of how not to run a country.”
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The White Rajahs of Sarawak
Discussed“His early biographers who were all propagandists of the British Empire, guys like Robert Payne, will write, quote, "It was remembered that he never told a lie and demonstrated at an early age a character of the utmost nobility."”
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A Handbook for Right-Wing Youth
Critiqued“They they uh when they like they feature um his book um a handbook for right-wing youth, which they should not be selling. It's a very dangerous text that should not be sold on Amazon.”
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Trapped in Hitler's Hell
Discussed“Um trapped in Hitler's Hell. And also they burned the 9/11 Commission report.”
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The Rush Limbaugh Story
Discussed“In his 1993 biography, The Rush Limbaugh Story, biographer Paul Coulford recalls one particularly embarrassing incident during a game of spin the bottle. When Rush was a teenager, he spun the bottle and it stopped at and it stopped pointing at the prettiest girl at the party”
The Realignment
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Fail-safe
Recommended“it's a cautionary tale much like uh dr strangelove or failsafe or the bedford incident or the third world war by sir john hackett”
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The Bedford Incident
Recommended“it's a cautionary tale much like uh dr strangelove or failsafe or the bedford incident or the third world war by sir john hackett”
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The Third World War
Recommended“it's a cautionary tale much like uh dr strangelove or failsafe or the bedford incident or the third world war by sir john hackett”
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The March of Folly
Recommended“she followed up with a lesser known book also by barbara tuchman the march of folly about how the united states managed to stumble into vietnam”
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On China
Recommended“and then on china by uh secretary kissinger can you just offer a quick summation of why you chose those two books”
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How to Be a High School Superstar
Discussed“so for our last section here we want to talk a little bit about higher education which we cover a lot and i think we are right in your age demographic for your books in the sense that i first came across you when i read how to be a high school superstar then you had how to win at”
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How to Win at College
Discussed“so for our last section here we want to talk a little bit about higher education which we cover a lot and i think we are right in your age demographic for your books in the sense that i first came across you when i read how to be a high school superstar then you had how to win at”
Pod Save America
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The Sum of Us
Recommended“everyone go by if you haven't already the sum of us what racism costs everyone and how we can prosper together it is a brilliant book”
Conversations with Tyler
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1177 B.C.
Recommended“um and i think of the work of my colleague professor eric klein um in his book um 1177 bcy civilization collapsed so i recommend that”
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Florence in the Forgotten Centuries, 1527-1800
Recommended“by the way everybody else who's ever heard of my father heard of florence in the forgotten centuries which is the one i'll uh i'll recommend online”
Freakonomics Radio
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The Organization Man
Discussed“Holly white wrote a book called the organization man which was one of the first sociological looks at the impact of corporate life and Suburban life on American people”
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The Third Coast
Discussed“my last book was about how Chicago had a whole parallel aesthetic that was really the The Crucible for a lot of things that then went off to New York and became famous”
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New York, New York, New York
Recommended“the author is Thomas Diga and the book is called New York New York New York four Decades of success excess and transformation if you care even a little bit about New York City possibly even if you don't this book will”
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Transformation
Recommended“the author is Thomas Diga and the book is called New York New York New York four Decades of success excess and transformation if you care even a little bit about New York City possibly even if you don't this book will”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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Freakonomics
Discussed“Years later, when you and I wrote about it in Freakonomics, where we had the time and space to really describe our hypothesis and approach, we didn't get any of the negative feedback we initially received.”
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More guns, less crime
Discussed“and he tried to emphasize that he was right a lot ended up writing a book called more guns less crime it was quite a big seller and he got a lot of Praise in certain circles for it became sort of the hero of the NRA crowd”
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Freedomnomics
Discussed“and after we published for economics he responded by writing a book entitled Freedom nomics which had the subtitle why the free market works and other half-baked theories don't”
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Business Efficiency For Dummies
Discussed“and at the time if you Google Business efficiency consultant I was like the only search result which led to me being offered to write business efficiency for dummies”
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
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Lifespan
Recommended“on this one i would point folks to read the book lifespan by david sinclair who's a researcher at harvard and he's done a lot of kind of leading work on on basically calling aging a disease and life extension so the book lifespan highlights i think a lot of his research and findings”
My First Million
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Contagious
Recommended“yeah i think if anyone cares about this stuff i like the book made to stick and i like the book contagious by jonah berger contagious made to stick is how to say something so people remember and contagious is a great book by this wharton professor on how to make things get popular how to make them spread like”
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The Mobile Wave
Discussed“I've read his book, The Mobile Wave, which he wrote 2012, basically saying that mobile's going to like mobile's going to destroy everything.”
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Eat this, not that
Discussed“do you remember as a kid seeing these books i'm pulling them up now called eat this not that no what is that okay so it was awesome i loved it i bought it once just because it was at barnes noble and it ended up like being like pretty amazing so google eat this not that it started as”
Monday Morning Podcast
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The verbally abusive relationship
Discussed“no i had a i'm reading this book right now called the verbally abusive relationship and i thought the whole time i was going to read it i was going to be like yeah that's you and that's [ __ ] you and i was reading like oh [ __ ] i do that”
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Two for the Money
Discussed“what was that movie with um what was the movie with pacino and mcconaughey where mcconaughey was like his guy two for the money the brand the money the whole point of that movie was”
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The Anatomy of Melancholy
Discussed“the book is presented as a medical textbook in which burton applies his vast and varied learning and the scholastic scholastic scholastic scholastic matter to the subject of melancholy which includes although it's not limited to what is now term is clinical depression”
Big Technology Podcast
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Private Empire
Discussed“I don't know if you've ever read, Steve Cole wrote a book about Exxon called Private Empire. It had a big impact on me.”
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Futureproof
Discussed“And you use it to lead off your book, Future Proof, about how automation is starting to come into the American workforce or the global workforce. So, why did you pick this topic?”
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Ghost Work
Recommended“There's a great book called Ghost Work by two technologists, Mary Gray and Siddharth Suri. And they talk about all of the kind of low-end, mundane labor, generally very low-paid labor that is used to make AI systems function.”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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Your Favorite Seuss
Discussed“you know i started to think about um the dr seuss thing and here's my theory on dr seuss for one i started to think that i bet i bet someone had a lot of dr seuss books that the sales on them had probably slowed down because i don't know if people are buying as dr seuss as much”
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Tools for the Master's work, comprising over 250 sermon outlines [&c.] collected by J. Ellis
Discussed“well i i certainly haven't well i did come from the sermon on the mount so hypothetically it's a reliable source you know”
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Winter Notes on Summer Impressions
Recommended“but the problem with that kind of thinking i suppose too is that this is dostoyevsky raised this in notes from underground it's a great short book and he created short”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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Tales of the Dervishes
Discussed“and that led me to a number of books including tales of the dervishes by and i'm going to mispronounce this also”
EconTalk
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One Fat Englishman
Discussed“kingsley amos said it amusingly in a book called one fat englishman a book that is totally unacceptable in today's world”
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Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws
Discussed“and so montesquieu and the spirit of the laws really spelled this out very clearly”
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The Elements of Justice
Recommended“this comes from david schmitz's wonderful book 2006 david schmitz the philosophy university of arizona past econ and the book is the elements of justice”
