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Books podcasts were talking about in September 2021
During September 2021, several podcast hosts and guests recommended informative and practical reads spanning climate change, mental health, and personal resilience. On The Rich Roll Podcast, Rich Roll recommended Paul Hawken's book Regeneration as an essential resource filled with various climate solutions. Addressing psychological balance and resilience, Andrew Huberman appeared on Huberman Lab to encourage listeners to read Dr. Anna Lembke's Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence, a book focusing on pleasure, dopamine, and addiction. Similarly, Ryan Holiday spoke on Modern Wisdom about James B. Stockdale's Courage Under Fire, highlighting the book as a valuable text concerning stoicism and resilience within prisoner of war camps. On the Lex Fridman Podcast, Jo Boaler discussed Leonard Mlodinow's Elastic, pointing to its insights on cultivating flexible and creative thinking. Financial and investment insights also surfaced when Brad Barrett joined ChooseFI to recommend William Green's Richer Wiser Happier for its lessons on successful value investors. Finally, on Behind the Bastards, Elaine highlighted multiple DIY and survival resources, recommending Kyle Bravo's Making Stuff and Doing Things alongside Sandor Ellix Katz's works on wild fermentation and food preservation methods. Across these shows, the highlighted books offered practical strategies for personal development, environmental action, and skill-building.
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Siddhartha
Discussed“but there's more of uh like with siddhartha there's more almost like a buddhist”
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Siddhartha by Herman Hesse Illustrated Edition
Discussed“and for him uh i'm starting to forget steppenwolf i think is uh humor”
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All Things Shining
Discussed“you wrote with him the book titled all things shining reading the western classics to find meaning in a secular age first can you maybe speak about who that man was what you learned from him”
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The Old Man and the Sea
Discussed“there's probably echoes that represent the 20th century now in old man in the sea by hemingway that also has similar i guess themes”
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The Pale King
Discussed“and he and he writes these sort of incredibly moving letters when he's trying to write the pale king which is the end of which is the unfinished novel”
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Elastic
Recommended“there's a book i like a lot but i've been by physicists you probably know this book could elastic you might know it um and it's about how we want elastic minds”
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Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth
Discussed“I found a lot of writings i really loved I found some things that i really loved and i learned from that it was writings from people like von mises he wrote a pre-order paper in 1920 that still should be read more than it is It's got I mean it was the economic calculation problem of the socialist commonwealth”
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Cognitive Psychology
Discussed“cognitive psychology had just become a field there was a book published in 67 called cognitive psychology um and the author said that you know the study of the nervous system was only of peripheral interest it wasn't going to tell us anything about the mind”
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Euclid's Elements
Discussed“but euclid's elements were the the kind of the touch point of a of a coherent document that sort of laid out this idea of an actual formal system within which these objects were characterized and the um the system of uh inference that um allowed new truths to be derived from others was sort of like established as a”
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Cognitive psychology
Discussed“there was a book published in 67 called cognitive psychology and the author said that you know the study of the nervous system was only of peripheral interest”
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Parallel Distributed Processing
Discussed“for for another brief minute you wrote parallel distributed processing books that explored ideas of neural networks in the 1980s together with a few folks”
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Explorations in cognition
Discussed“dave rummelhart had written a book together with another man named don norman and the book was called explorations in cognition”
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Steve Allen Music Book
Critiqued“yo and jack benny i mean steve allen wrote this book about humor and it was the most boring book but he was one of my idols but but uh yeah it's called the funny men or something like that”
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Puzzle Box
Discussed“in fact in volume 2 i've got a cryptogram a message in cypher and in order to decipher it you're going to have to have to break an rsa key which is larger than people know how to break”
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On Beyond Zebra!
Discussed“there's a book by dr seuss called on beyond zebra and he gave a name to that”
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The Man from St. Petersburg
Discussed“it was by ken follett and it was called the man from saint petersburg but it but but it was talking about the prequel to world war one”
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Surreal Numbers
Discussed“and so this book is now published as surreal number and ... i did nothing else except write up conway's theory”
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Physically Based Rendering
Recommended“if they're gonna look it up that they should also look up this book by called physically based rendering by matt farr”
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Nightfall
Discussed“i thought that was a curious kind of thought that reminds me of that uh old isaac asimov story where the cl you know there's this planet where they finally get to see what's in the sky once in a while”
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Dr Sax
Discussed“there's a passage in kerouac's book dr sachs where somebody tries to just explain the whole situation with reality and people in like a paragraph”
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Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines
Discussed“and so marvin minsky very well known in ai but also a fantastic mathematician uh in his book finite and infinite machines from the mid 60s which is a beautiful beautiful mathematical book”
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The Art of Computer Programming
Discussed“and donald knuth uh in his first volume of his you know art of computer programming in around 1968 says well what's computation”
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Perceptrons
Discussed“uh i i should have asked marvin why he he and seymour pappet came down so hard on neural networks in 1968 in their book perceptrons”
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The book of electricity
Discussed“how am i on the book of electricity”
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Giant brains; or, Machines that think
Discussed“and how i won the book of giant brains and robots”
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Perceptrons
Discussed“i should have asked marvin why he he and seymour pappet came down so hard on neural networks in 1968 in their book perceptrons”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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Leaders
Discussed“You wrote a book, as mentioned in the intro, Leaders: Myth and Reality.”
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Sons of the Moon
Discussed“it was about this journey this very journey you know it was called sons of the moon and it was very exciting”
Behind the Bastards
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The Violin's Secret
Critiqued“He's written a fictional novel called The Violin Secret, which is apparently about the survival of a young teenager through the Holocaust. And I don't want to read that cuz I'm sure it's terrible in ways that I can't quite anticipate right now.”
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NESARA and The Mark of The Beast
Discussed“Well, Sophia, after this we're going to get into a book. We're doing another book episode uh for the Thursday episode this week because uh spoiler alert, not a spoiler really. My mom has cancer”
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Radicalized
Discussed“There's a great short story that y'all turned me on to by Corey Doctoro in a a book of short stories called Radicalize though. Was it was it just called The Mask of the Red Death?”
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The Bust DIY Guide to Life
Discussed“And then I have from 2011 the bus DIY guide to life that includes everything from like how to do worm composting to how to make your own makeup and like finance a house. And that's like the magazine, right?”
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Making Stuff and Doing Things
Recommended“There's a great book called Making Stuff and Doing Things from way back in the day. Definitely recommend that one.”
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Doing Things for Reasons
Recommended“There's a great book called Making Stuff and Doing Things from way back in the day. Definitely recommend that one.”
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Wild Fermentation
Recommended“And there are some really great resources out there specifically um wild fermentation and the art of fermentation which are both by a guy named Sandra Katz on how to ferment food”
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The Art of Fermentation
Recommended“And there are some really great resources out there specifically um wild fermentation and the art of fermentation which are both by a guy named Sandra Katz on how to ferment food”
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The Myth of Progress
Recommended“Tom Wessles has this really great book called The Myth of Progress which talks about complex system science and essentially what that is is decentralization and um the the benefits of having diversity within a community and the fact that any any power that's you know centered in one specific place ends up having imbalances and has less resiliency.”
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Asian Labor in the Wartime Japanese Empire
Discussed“I'm going to read part of the introduction to a book called Asian labor in the wartime Japanese empire unknown histories which is this b basically there there's a conference on sort of Japanese war crimes”
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Chinese Comfort Women
Discussed“I want to read this passage from the book Chinese Comfort Women: Testimonies from Imperial Japan Sex Slaves. The soldiers immediately kidnapped good-looking local women and kept them in military barracks as sex slaves.”
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Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque
Discussed“I'm going to read a quote from the book Absolute Erotic, Absolutely Cortic, which is a history of this period.”
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Days of Emperor and Clown
Discussed“As James Dugan and Lawrence Lefor point out in Days of Emperor and Clown, the old liberal tradition of sympathy for fascism still lingered towards the end of 1935, but it had begun to change.”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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Regeneration
Recommended“There's so many things, pick up Paul's book, "Regeneration," which is rife with all manner of solutions.”
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In Patagonia
Discussed“And Bruce Chatwin wrote a book in Patagonia about the Yamen people and about their language.”
Modern Wisdom
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Courage Under Fire
Recommended“but he has a short book called courage under fire that's sort of about uh stoicism and his time in that prison camp”
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The Practice of Groundedness
Discussed“What's the problem that you're trying to solve with your new book? Right now? Yes.”
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Date-onomics
Discussed“anyone that wants to fact check me this is in john burge's date and omics i i honest to god i'll tell you right now i don't understand women”
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A Dose of Hope
Recommended“A dose of hope, a story of MDMA assisted psychotherapy will be linked in the show notes below on Amazon.”
Founders
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In the Company of Giants
Discussed“That is an excerpt from the book I'm going to talk to you about today, which is in the company of giants, candid conversations with the visionaries of the digital world, and it was written by Rama, Dev, Yeager, and Raphael Ortiz.”
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Finding the Next Steve Jobs
Discussed“But when Nolan picked out and he wrote an entire book about it, which I cover, which is how to find the next Steve Jobs. And when Nolan picked out as well, this guy has a lot of passion.”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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Philosophy of Right
Discussed“i think it's hegel who says at one point that the the owl of minerva spreads its wings uh at dusk by which he meant this is in the introduction to the philosophy of right”
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De Trinitate
Discussed“i thought i could go and read the confessions and the trinitate and the city of god and and try and work out what augustine has to say about identity”
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The Conscious Mind
Discussed“i mean you mentioned david chalmers as you say this brilliant young philosopher who in 1994 published his phd thesis the conscious mind which brought back in onto the table that what he called the hard problem of consciousness”
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De Anima
Discussed“if you read the day anima aristotle's treaties on the soul”
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Pravda
Discussed“since i was in graduate school of columbia that's why i studied russian was to read pravda and visit the soviet union on multiple occasions and other and other communist countries”
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Words With Power
Discussed“he wrote words with power and there's a second volume which i can't bring to mind at the moment”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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The Bidens
Discussed“um i will say hat hats off to politico and and ben schreckinger who's written a book called the bidens inside the fam the first family's 50-year rise to power confirming some of your reporting”
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The Long Slide
Discussed“you just wrote a book trying to talk about the collapse of journalism that's my own take on what your book's about used to be a real thing”
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Glow Kids
Discussed“he's on every single last media place you can imagine fox news 2020 you name it has a book called glow kids had him on my podcast tells me all the different things that's bad about virtual learning”
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Health At Every Size
Recommended“so the first thing that comes to my mind is the book health at every size by linda dr lindo bacon”
Huberman Lab
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Best-Selling Series by Dr. Anna Lembke. Dopamine Nation Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence (hardcover) & the Official Dopamine Nation Workbook. a Practical Guide to Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence (paperback)
Recommended“Has this amazing book, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence. If you haven't read the book, I highly encourage you to check it out. It's fantastic.”
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Philosophy of Psychedelics
Recommended“And I actually credit Chris Letheby, a philosopher in Australia, who has a forthcoming book. It might be out right about now, or soon, within the coming months, "Psychedelics and Philosophy".”
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Summary and Analysis: Daniel Goleman and Richard J. Davidson's Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body
Recommended“What am I about to read you is from an excellent book that I recommend, if any of you are interested in neuroscience and things like meditation and default mode networks and things of that sort, the book is called, "Altered Traits." Science reveals how meditation changes your mind, brain and body and no, I'm not going to try and”
ChooseFI
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Richer, Wiser, Happier
Recommended“so I've been reading a book called richer wiser happier by an author named William green and I would highly recommend everybody in the audience read this book”
No Stupid Questions
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The Diamond Sutra
Discussed“for example out of nowhere the Mind comes forth is a koan from the Buddhist text the diamond Sutra”
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Othello
Discussed“and Shakespeare is responsible for the origin of the phrase the green-eyed monster in Othello the antagonist Iago warns oh beware my lord of jealousy it is the green eyed monster which doth mock the meat at feeds on”
The Book Review
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Say It Loud!
Discussed“tell us about the origins of this book which is a collection of 29 essays”
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The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals
Discussed“and then stumbled onto that weird 1906 book the criminal prosecution and capital punishment of animals”
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Reflections of a nonpolitical man
Critiqued“where he wrote a I think a ridiculously bad book called reflections of a nonpolitical man”
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Between the Woods and the Water
Discussed“and I also only read the middle volume of this series between the woods and the water”
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A Time of Gifts
Recommended“the name of this book that I'm reading is a time of gifts”
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The Makioka Sisters
Recommended“I recently read a novel called The makioka Sisters by junichiro tanizaki”
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Filthy Animals
Discussed“before you go just tell us for a few minutes about your latest book filthy animals”
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About Time
Discussed“Pamela David Rooney joins us now from London his new book is called about time a history of civilization in 12 clocks”
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We Were Liars
Discussed“another one was e Lockhart's we were Liars which came out in 2014 and that author was extremely confused to see it on the bestseller list”
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The Failed Promise
Discussed“so most recently I reviewed a book called The failed promise and it's by Robert LaVine and it's about the history of reconstruction”
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The War for Gloria
Discussed“and the last two he's reviewed are attacus lisha's second novel called the war for Gloria and column Tobin's new novel The Magician”
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Preparation for the Next Life
Discussed“Li's book is a follow-up to his debut novel preparation for the next life which was kind of a surprise hit a few years ago from a very very small press but a stunningly written book”
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The Master
Discussed“and Tobin's novel is interesting because he in 2004 wrote a novel called the master which was about the life of Henry James a book I love”
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Love undetectable
Discussed“and had a big essay in my book love undetectable exploring those arguments sympathetically in order to eventually rebut them”
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A Dictionary of Similes
Discussed“gathered by a man named Frank J Will stetch the author of a dictionary of similes”
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Adele
Discussed“it was the perfect Nanny and then after that Adele can you just talk a little bit about those two books”
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A visitation of spirits
Recommended“I'm halfway through the late Randall Keenan's debut novel a visitation of spirits”
Monday Morning Podcast
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Ministry
Recommended“that book that uh al jorgensen from ministry wrote i just finished it man i'm telling you some of the most insane you're ever gonna read”
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Flyboys
Recommended“when i was a kid world war ii aviation especially in the pacific had a profound effect on me and the book fly boys was the first time i ever read about about [ __ ] going down in the philippines and how we got all these oversea territories and puerto rico and guam and all of that”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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The 33 Strategies of War
Discussed“first I got robert green which to me was very interesting robert greene the 48 laws of power 33 strategies of war I got him”
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Talking to Strangers
Discussed“like well so malcolm gladwell makes a really strong case in his like new book talking to strangers for how i'm obviously innocent but he puts the explanatory burden of my wrongful conviction on me”
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A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century
Recommended“it's called a hunter gatherers light guide to the 21st century i just heard about that this morning is it good”
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Murder Machine
Discussed“that book is terrifying yes so this you read it uh i never read the book but i know it but it's amazing”
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Points of Origin
Discussed“points of origin playing with fire look join the investigation as any character 2001 it must be a reason that might have been a reprint”
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Truth
Discussed“federal prison for 30 years life plus 21. yeah but that you see the description right the description was about uh an an arson investigator which is what he was ... but his books are our points of origin and points of truth”
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Fire Lover
Discussed“somebody else wrote in his book fire lover no yeah that was the book fire lover”
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark
Discussed“i'll be gone in the dark that's the name of her book and that's the uh i think the name of the series too”
The Realignment
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The Raging 2020s
Discussed“and so the raging 2020s does not say what's going to happen but rather it lays out a series of choices in front of us”
Timcast IRL
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Superman Vs. Lobo
Discussed“DC Comics pokes fun and anti-vaxxers with anti-saver movement in Superman versus Lobo number one”
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The Incredible Adventures of Rush Revere
Discussed“the late Rush Limbaugh has Great Patriotic kids book series called The Rush Revere series”
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Joy of Cooking
Discussed“the joy of cooking with ian we're not really calling it that i don't think we can no it's like 100 year old book oh okay a cookbook yeah that's not fair the joy of cooking”
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Unrivaled
Discussed“there's a book by a Harvard Professor called unrivaled you wrote it in 2018.”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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American Nations
Discussed“there's a great book uh i forgot what it's like american nations or something like that where the author tries to show you why that is in the united states”
EconTalk
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Economics of the Public Sector
Discussed“one of the textbooks that i actually really liked and used in a i course when i taught at the naval postgraduate school was joe stiglitz's economics of the public sector on the cover is this big picture of a lighthouse”
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On Revolution
Discussed“probably my favorite book on this topic is hannah aren't on revolution”
SmartLess
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The Central Park Five
Discussed“I have to admit the team, my oldest daughter Sarah Burns, and her husband David McMahon, and I, we made 'The Central Park Five' and 'Jackie Robinson'.”
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The History of the Stasi
Discussed“So you know what, and right, and Fred, sorry, we talked about this because then I read that book on the Stasi. I read one that you told me about, and then I told you about one.”
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The Last Black Unicorn
Discussed“she published a memoir called the last black unicorn”
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How the Other Half Banks
Discussed“then i started reading all these books and i'm reading the color of money and how the other half banks and i'm seeing all the things that have happened and how”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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The Toyota Way
Discussed“There's an excellent example from the Toyota way on that topic where like some of the like masters of Toyota way within Toyota would like take a lot of their senior managers and they would draw a circle on the factory floor within a Toyota factory”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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Subtract
Discussed“Leidy summarizes his research ideas in a new book called "Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less."”
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Triumph of the City
Discussed“He's the author of the best-selling book, Triumph of the City, and now he's back with a new book co-authored with David Cutler called Survival of the City.”
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Survival of the City
Discussed“So back in 2008, Ed, you wrote a book called Triumph of the City, and now, 13 years later, you've got a new book called Survival of the City.”
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How schools work
Discussed“and after you left that job you wrote A Memoir entitled how schools work and the first line of that book is education runs on lies”
Pod Save America
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I'll Take Your Questions Now
Discussed“stephanie grisham called i'll take your questions now which i imagine is an ironic title uh since grisham was the only white house press secretary in history to never actually hold a press briefing”
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The agenda
Discussed“and then when bob woodward's book i think was called the agenda came out that was very anti-clinton”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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Shady Baby
Discussed“I spoke about earlier that you and Dwayne wrote a children's book called Shady Baby and I was fascinated because the baby's superpower is shade and and I wanted to understand that. I wanted you to explain that to us for anyone who's who's not read the book yet. Shady Baby is the the children's book that you put together.”
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You Got Anything Stronger?
Recommended“And the book we're talking about today that I just told you I was reading is called "You Got Anything Stronger?" and it will be released on September 14th of this year.”
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The End of Mental Illness
Recommended“and so i felt like my favorite book by dr amon is um i think it's the end of mental illness yeah which i just found fascinating”
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How to Be Bored
Recommended“there's actually a great book by the school of life called how to be bored it's a really small book well interesting”
Big Technology Podcast
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Empire State of Mind
Discussed“you know, I, I just sort of said, I, I didn't, I just kind of improvised. I was like, Hey Jay, I'm the guy who wrote the book about you. Yeah. And he pretended not to hear me and he kind of sauntered off”
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The Platform Delusion
Discussed“So, you know, you wrote a book about this. So writing a book is, uh, is a pretty serious endeavor. It takes a lot of time. You have to basically pour your life into it.”
Conversations with Tyler
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The shame of the cities
Discussed“this is the shame of our you know it's the modern version of lincoln stefan's the shame of our cities right”
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The High Cost of Free Parking
Recommended“you've got to ask the great don shoop for that he's he's the one who's written the book on the high cost of free parking”
This Week in Startups
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ILL- Secrets of Sand Hill Road
Discussed“and actually one of was first interested in venture capital i got the book from my mentor the secrets of sand hill which is about a16z but i honestly the book was pretty dense didn't read it all but at the end of the book there's a glossary”