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Books podcasts were talking about in October 2021
October 2021 featured numerous book recommendations across multiple podcasts, touching on history, wellness, and fiction. On Modern Wisdom, Chris Williamson promoted Tim Stanley's Whatever Happened to Tradition?. Pamela Paul congratulated Katie Couric on her book Going There during an episode of The Book Review. General H.R. McMaster appeared on The Daily Stoic, where he recommended Donald Kagan's On the Origins of War and Zachary Shore's A Sense of the Enemy to discuss historical conflicts and strategic empathy. On The Tim Ferriss Show, Chris Dixon recommended Jill Jonnes's Empires of Light and John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge's The Company while exploring industrial and social structural innovations. Health and personal narratives also drew attention, as Rich Roll recommended Simon Hill's The Proof is in the Plants on The Rich Roll Podcast, and Julie Piatt used the same platform to recommend Anita Kopacz's debut novel, Shallow Waters, highlighting the author's exploration of African spirituality.
Modern Wisdom
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Whatever Happened to Tradition?
Recommended“Oh, they can go on to timothystanley.co.uk or just buy the book. Buy the book. It's It's very good. Whatever happened to Tradition, History, Belonging, and the Future of the West will be linked in the show notes below.”
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How to Argue With a Racist
Discussed“And then the other source of information about genetics and sports that I have read is Adam Rutherford's How to Argue with a Racist”
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Notes from the Underground
Discussed“so and he said this in a book called notes it notes in the notes from the underground it's a pretty good book”
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The Joke
Recommended“there's a great novel written on that very subject by milan kundura called the joke in which he people in like a some kind of prison camp were asked to do these different tasks and they did them exactly to the letter”
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Risk
Discussed“in many cases this is something that you talk about in your new book about the the challenge of moving from intention to action and how important it is to actually find a a place where the rubber meets the road and to start to act on things”
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The King Must Die
Discussed“if you read though that mary renault book the king is dead”
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Powers and Thrones
Recommended“but don jones ladies and gentlemen powers and thrones will be linked in the show notes below”
The Book Review
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The End of Bias
Discussed“so I reviewed a book called the end of bias and it's by a writer named Jessica Nordell”
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Colorization
Discussed“I had the good luck Pamela to review will ha Good's new book it's called colorization 100 Years of black films in a white world”
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Going There
Recommended“so congratulations again on the book the title is going there by Katie KK”
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American Made
Discussed“and the author of a new book americanmade what happens to people when work disappears Farah thanks for being here”
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A Calling for Charlie Barnes
Discussed“Ferris will join us to talk about his latest book a calling for Charlie Barnes”
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Paradise
Discussed“some of the book scan numbers from the UK showed extremely small sales for his books over the years something you know close to 30,000 copies for 10 novels”
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Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes
Discussed“her new book is called please don't sit on my bed in your outside clothes”
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You Can't Touch My Hair
Discussed“so we met and I told him about my idea for my first book you can't touch my hair”
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Memory of departure
Discussed“he lives in Britain and has written several books about the Immigrant experience in Britain including memory of departure and Pilgrim's way”
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Pilgrims way
Discussed“he lives in Britain and has written several books about the Immigrant experience in Britain including memory of departure and Pilgrim's way”
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The Diary of a Country Priest
Discussed“so the Diary of a country priest it's exactly what the title says it is it's a novel but it's written as the year-long Journal of a young Catholic parish priest”
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Bewilderment
Discussed“Richard Powers will be here to talk about his new book bewilderment what role does web Debo play in the love songs of web de boys”
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The Age of Phillis
Discussed“one of them the age Phyllis was longlisted for the national book aboard for poetry”
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Congratulations, by the way
Recommended“it is Congratulations by the way by George Saunders the subtitle is some thoughts on kindness and it's so short as to almost not be a book”
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A Motor-Flight Through France
Recommended“and then the other book I read was not long and it was based in fact on a series of articles in the Atlantic Monthly magazine in the early 20th century and that book is called a motor flight through France by Edith Wharton”
The Daily Stoic
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Infantry Attacks
Discussed“now the rommel papers read that way as well very practical you know solutions or rommel's earlier book infantry attacks”
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Strategy
Discussed“yeah i read um i read uh lawrence friedman's book and it's called the future of war i don't know if you read it but he wrote he wrote that great book strategy”
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The Future of War
Discussed“yeah i read um i read uh lawrence friedman's book and it's called the future of war”
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On the Origins of War
Recommended“uh don kagan's one volume of that is brilliant or his essay on it in the book called on the origins of war and prospects for peace”
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A Sense Of The Enemy The High Stakes History Of Reading Your Rivals Mind
Recommended“so so but but uh but the historian named zachary shore wrote a great book called a sense of the enemy in which he develops this this idea of strategic empathy”
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The Daily Laws
Discussed“so this is the new book the daily laws”
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The Art of Seduction
Discussed“if you went with seduction maybe they're that's not what they're in it”
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Leaders
Discussed“oh really i got it from nick i read a book that nixon wrote it's this fascinating book called leaders where nixon wrote about all the leaders he had spent time with”
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Great Contemporaries
Discussed“um i talk about this in the book because there's another similar book to the nixon one that churchill wrote called great contemporaries who wrote biographies of people that he knew in his own time”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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The Work of Wall Street
Discussed“Charlie Sheen went to jail in Wall Street for that yeah remember Oliver's movie Oliver Stone's movie Wall Street oh yes I remember it”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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Empires of Light
Recommended“for god's sake this amazing book called empires of light it's the battle between westinghouse and edison”
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The Company
Recommended“there's a book i really like called the company a short history of the llc this is a fascinating book”
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The Age of A.I.
Recommended“I will absolutely take it and I encourage people to read this book. The Age of AI. Pick it up.”
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Misquoting Jesus
Discussed“i although i haven't read the book the premise i believe of this book called misquoting jesus was looking at the linguistic path that various translations and mistranslations have taken”
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The Common Law
Discussed“and he wrote a little book called the common law which was a total re-reading of the history of the law basically the law of accidents and contracts”
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Democracy and the Market
Recommended“another book which is a bit shorter and which i have found incredibly helpful uh for me is a book called democracy and the market and it's by a polish born political scientist whose name is adam chavorski”
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Immunity to Change
Discussed“he was kind enough to do this process called immunity to change”
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I Wanna Be a Producer
Discussed“the book i think maybe you can confirm is i want to be a producer subtitle how to make a killing on broadway. or get killed by john breglio”
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Crucial Confrontations
Recommended“i think a fantastic resource is crucial conversations which is then followed up by crucial confrontations his companion book”
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Dig Your Well before You're Thirsty
Recommended“i was inspired a long time ago by a book called dig your well before your thirsty by harvey mckay and more recently by the book super connect by richard kosh and greg lockwood”
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Positioning
Recommended“get the older copy not the for the internet because i think the for the internet was written like 98 or 99 and the examples are really funny but get the older version positioning by the same authors”
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The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership
Discussed“So, my my next question, I want to share an observation from my rereading of the book, and then the the next question, just to plant the seed, is I'm going to ask you why it's called the drama triangle, what drama actually means here. But in my reread, which I'm in the middle of right now, of the 15”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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The Dropout: Schools Search for Clues to His Problems; Information: Terms and Computations. Reprint from School Life, May 1963
Discussed“so i'm listening to this podcast it's really good it's called the dropout and um it she cuz she dropped out of college i guess they call it to drop out because of that”
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Geek love
Discussed“do you remember the book geek love”
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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Discussed“even cowgirls get the blues”
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Survival of the Prettiest
Discussed“is that why they where there was a great book called survival of the prettiest”
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The Martian Chronicles
Discussed“well i grew up with uh ray bradbury's uh martian chronicles”
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The Gift
Recommended“did you ever read louis hyde's book the gift”
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Traumatic Narcissism
Discussed“there's this great book called traumatic narcissism that talks about the psychology that often leads to co-eaters it's a clinical book”
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Meditation for Beginners
Discussed“I went to the penn book store after he said that term with my own resistance in hand and found a little book called meditation for beginners I lucked out because I picked a really good book by a really influential person I didn't know anything about this jack cornfield it's called meditation for beginners it came with a little”
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Lord of the Flies
Critiqued“lord of the flies is one of the most [ __ ] up books in history”
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Blaming the Victim
Discussed“you get to 1970 and this very famous book gets published called uh blaming the victim”
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Pandemia
Recommended“800 800 footnotes in that book and not one of them is from yournews.com”
This Week in Startups
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The Amazon Way
Discussed“if you read uh the book uh from amazon and the amazon way i believe that's the name of it they uh really talked about how over time they looked at products in stock”
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Growth IQ
Discussed“and and going back to you know the conversation we had about my book growth iq and you know positive and then cautionary tales”
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Ask Your Developer
Discussed“one of the things that i observed in that in the book is how there's a almost literally darwinian evolution of every industry going on right now and this has been accelerated by covid and many other things”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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The Proof is in the Plants
Recommended“The second is "The Proof is in the Plants" by my buddy Simon Hill. Simon. Simon is the host of The Plant Proof Podcast. I'm sure many of our listeners also enjoy his show.”
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Shallow Waters
Recommended“I wanted to give a shout out to Anita Kopacz for her debut book called "Shallow Waters". Anita and her husband Sheldon and children's Saidi, Tila and Mayan were part of our homeschool experiment back in the day, and they are just magical and full of light.”
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The Korean Vegan: Homemade
Recommended“And then I got to meet Joanne in real life and she actually brought her book, "The Korean Vegan". She is just such a dear human being so much love and creativity that the photographs in this book are just exquisite. I mean, just look at the cover image.”
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Burning the Days
Discussed“Yeah, there's a James Salter novel in the title, it's like his memoir. I guess, is a memoir. But the title is "Burning the Days."”
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Billions and billions
Discussed“it's like that line in the first season of "Billions," which says like, "What good is fuck you money, if you never say fuck you?"”
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Real American
Discussed“You wrote a memoir called "Real American."”
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The Korean Vegan Cookbook
Recommended“Her first book, "The Korean Vegan Cookbook," which is absolutely breathtaking and truly inverts everything you thought you knew about what a cookbook is and can be.”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Software
Discussed“and I've got one example great great uh collection of books from my friend Rudy Rucker which were um uh which I have to say the um the books about uh that are very informed by a bunch of science that I've done and the thing that I really loved about them is you know you know in the in”
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High Price
Discussed“in your previous book high price you talk about rap and djing chapter five”
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WHAT IS LIFE?.
Discussed“i mean so i have to ask as you described in your book once again uh schroedinger wrote the book what is life based on the few lectures he gave in 1944”
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The Case for Democracy
Discussed“and he wrote a book in which his thesis was essentially the way that you can define a free society is through something called the town square test”
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The Mandibles
Recommended“third one is a fiction book called the mandibles written by lionel shriver this one's good it's a good gift book it's funny it's dark it's witty but it's about the united states losing its status as the reserve currency and going into hyperinflation”
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The Internet of Money
Recommended“my portal into bitcoin was the internet of money by andreas antonopoulos”
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The Fear
Recommended“number is the fear the fear had a deep impact on me the fear was written by peter godwin it's about the systematic dismantling of zimbabwe under robert mugabe peter zimbabwean and it is a riveting book”
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The Blocksize War
Recommended“as nick said i think you should read the block size war which is a book on that you can get on amazon by jonathan beer really good kind of like really important to understand the the the scaling conflict and the visions over the different visions of what bitcoin should be”
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Do the F*cking Work
Discussed“I'm looking at a book that you gave me Do the fucking work It's very motivating Good fucking design advice That's their company called good fucking design advice That's great I know they're great website because good gfda Okay So the f is the f is uh for friendship something like that They are a design company They've worked with”
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Introduction to the Study of the Holy Quran
Discussed“uh and i've read many books of course and i could say there's no book that my the book that is the most strongest book i've ever read is actually the holy quran”
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Who Wrote the Bible?
Discussed“it's stronger to me than my than the bible”
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Consider the Lobster
Discussed“especially there's a there's a guy named david foster wallace he wrote a short story called consider the lobster”
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The Tao of Wu
Discussed“life in the tao of wu you write something about confusion which i really like confusion is a gift from god”
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Bobby Digital and The Pit of Snakes
Recommended“read the dowels let's start with the wu tang manual first”
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The Wu-tang Manual
Recommended“let's start with the wu tang manual first yeah no you gonna do that second”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?
Critiqued“frankly he wrote a book about 10 years ago called who's afraid of post blackness”
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Bad News
Discussed“Bhatia Angar Sargon joins me now and she's the deputy opinion editor at Newsweek as well as the author of a brand new book called bad news how woke media is undermining democracy”
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Sex Plus: Learning, Loving, and Enjoying Your Body
Discussed“and then the book that you were tweeting about was called sex plus by laci greene finding in in your school library”
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Extreme
Recommended“read sharon's autobiography extreme 2005. still i think number one um best selling biggest selling autobiography since british records began”
Monday Morning Podcast
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Hitler's Pope
Discussed“writing in though to discuss hitler's pope eugeno paselli pius xii in the vatican position during world war ii”
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Crash and Burn
Discussed“One of the funniest chapters in one of his many books he talked about how nobody bet hockey, and there was an afternoon game every week.”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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This Bright Future
Discussed“and today his new book that we're talking about is called This Bright Future by Bobby Hall.”
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Tarzan of the Apes
Discussed“Well, actually, you know, when I look at the original Tarzan of the Apes that inspired me, I was 10 years old. And oh, I wanted to go to Africa. I wanted to live with wild animals in the forest. I thought Tarzan married the wrong Jane.”
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Boundless
Recommended“For those of you who have not read Boundless, when you pick it up, what I love about the book is you break it down into tiny sections or on explaining each part of the science, but then giving a practical thing that someone can do today.”
The Rubin Report
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The Colorado Blueprint
Discussed“There's a book, "The Colorado Blueprint." And they were kind of sounding the alarms of what was happening”
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One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
Discussed“I'm learning like "One Fish, Two Fish," and now we're talking about all of this really politicized stuff”
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The Lucifer Principle
Discussed“absolute, and it's, it's like Howard Bloom wrote in "Lucifer Principle" that, you know, this idea that every, every nation is a sort of superorganism in a sense”
Behind the Bastards
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The Truth About Stories
Discussed“there's this excellent excellent book called the the truth about stories. And I think what it really emphasizes throughout the book is the importance of stories and how stories impact how we navigate the world”
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Ecotopia
Discussed“And the one I read most recently was Ecotopia, which is quite is much older than all the others. It's actually a book that was published in the in 1975. Um, and not all aspects of its politics are things I agree with”
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Sunvault
Recommended“So, um I'm still getting into the genre myself, so I don't have too many um recommendations. There are some um decent short story collections um like Sun Vault by couple different authors.”
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Multispecies Cities
Recommended“There's also multiecies cities, solar punk, urban futures. Um, and the one I read most recently was Ecotopia, which is quite is much older than all the others.”
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Setting sights
Recommended“One of the things that Scott Crowe in his uh in setting sights, which is a really good book on community self-defense does is set out that um a a key aspect of community self-defense, as you said, is that you're like a member of the community”
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History of Seattle from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time
Discussed“I did some digging and found in a a book called History of Seattle from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Volume Two, which I started pouring through and found that there was”
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Mutual Aid
Recommended“from the conquest of bread to mutual aid and”
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Liquidated
Recommended“the book Liquidated by Karen Hoe is an incredible like ethnography and history of of Wall Street”
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Settler Colonialism
Recommended“um so in terms of resources and reading um i have read lorenzo verachchini's um settler book on settler colonialism um that's really helpful when you're trying to understand that framework”
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Earthbound Farmer's Almanac
Discussed“One of which is their uh is is the first edition of their Earthbound Farmers Almanac.”
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Freedom Farmers
Discussed“part of the inspiration for the almanac or what kind of drove us to to make it was some of us were doing a reading group of this book called Freedom Farmers that's about kind of like various um black projects in the south for food autonomy after slavery”
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Mutual Aid
Recommended“Well, well, first I hope that people have read Mutual Aid by Dean Spade.”
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More Than Just Food
Recommended“And then there's another there's a one book I read called More Than Just Food.”
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Charismatic Capitalism
Discussed“Amway's recruits are all taught to say to mlmmers the word entrepreneur represents not just a career but a morally superior way of being in the economy comments Nicole Woolsey bigot a UC Davis sociologist and author of charismatic capitalism directselling organizations in America”
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Believe
Discussed“This country was built on a religious heritage, he wrote in his book, Believe, and we'd better get back to it.”
Conversations with Tyler
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The Centurions
Discussed“they also leveraged some very good literature on it books like the centurions and others so we read some novel historical novels”
Timcast IRL
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American Homicide
Discussed“this is all based on this work from a book called american homicide by randolph roth”
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Daredevil by Frank Miller & Klaus Janson, Volume 2
Discussed“if I have a single favorite comic it's a run so it's uh Daredevil Frank Miller's Daredevil right really”
StarTalk Radio
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Joe Hill: the Graphic Novel Collection
Recommended“or i'm reading joe hill right now one of my favorite writers and he is hilarious”
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Back to Earth
Discussed“and well is this part of the themes that fed your latest book back to earth what life in space taught me about our home planet and our mission to protect it”
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Surviving Galeras
Discussed“i read this amazing book called surviving galeras by this uh volcanologist called stanley williams and it was his story about how he'd gone up this volcano”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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The Death of Environmentalism
Discussed“for uh the first book i did which was co-authored and it's a book it was a book called breakthrough from the death of environmentalism to the politics of possibility”
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Redemption at Hacksaw Ridge
Discussed“i'm always struck by hacksaw ridge the film that mel gibson put together and that's about conscientious objection”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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50 Shades of Grey
Discussed“you got asked to do 50 shades of grey right i got it's a kind of a rumor i got i met the uh met the author and she said we would love to send you the script because everything and i think it might have got got sent and i i i admit i'd never read the books”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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AI 2041
Discussed“we mentioned you mentioned in the book in ai 2041 that we're going to see a lot of games and other applications”
Pod Save America
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Midnight in Washington
Discussed“um you've got a new book out called midnight in washington how we almost lost our democracy and still could covers both impeachments january 6th”
No Stupid Questions
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Angela's Ashes
Discussed“I can think of one book that I loved and saw the film, and I didn't hate it, and that was Angela's Ashes, which I thought was a pretty good film. I did not know that was a film.”
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
Discussed“The journalist Julie Solomon was actually on set for a lot of the making of that movie; she wrote a book about it. She wrote a book about the making of the movie because it was just one disaster after the next, and the book was called Devil's Candy.”
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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Discussed“the famous visual design Guru Edward tufty who wrote several books about the best way to present visual information generally basically data in pictures”
Big Technology Podcast
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App Kid
Recommended“and he's the author of the new book app kid out in stores uh already and i encourage you to get it”
Dwarkesh Podcast
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Death by Regulation
Discussed“she worked on a pharma company and she wrote a book called death by regulation and one of the points she made was um you know if anybody like actually talked about like how many deaths the fda causes by you know”
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The Money Game
Discussed“but there's actually there's a story in adam smith um the pseudonymous financial commentator um not the not the economist adam smith's money game where he talks about a guy who did that in the 19th century and he bought a lot of very reliable blue ship stocks and he i think he set up his will”
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Dude, Where's My Flying Car?
Recommended“where's my flying car which is um it's basically this extended um very detailed very thoughtful very well footnoted rant from someone who really wants to have a flying car and he's interested in them”
Acquired
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Creating Shareholder Value
Discussed“one of the guys in my training program handed me a copy of al rappaport's book called creating shoulder value that book came out in 1986”
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Expectations Investing
Discussed“so that was the birth of expectations investing that former one was sort of aimed at executives at ceos”
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Understanding Michael Porter
Recommended“in fact i usually recommend that people who are interested in understanding porter read a book by a woman named joan mcgretta called understanding michael porter”
Huberman Lab
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Anatomy
Discussed“We didn't discover the blood vessels that are described in "Grey's Anatomy," but nobody knew what they were for.”
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
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Principles
Discussed“I've talked about Ray Dalio's book, Principles, before and some of the work he's done on this where he is so adamant about getting culture right within the organization, how you operate, that they almost have, I think, a 30% attrition rate after the first year of people that come in.”
