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Books podcasts were talking about in October 2021
In October 2021, podcast episodes prominently featured discussions on military strategy, theoretical physics, complex systems, and democracy. On The Daily Stoic, H.R. McMaster analyzed military strategy by comparing Erwin Rommel's Rommel papers to his earlier book Infantry Attacks, and further discussed Lawrence Freedman's The Future of War to explore generational shifts in the nature of conflict. The Lex Fridman Podcast welcomed several distinguished guests. Stephen Wolfram discussed his friend Rudy Rucker's science-informed book Software, as well as his own book Combinators. Brian Greene appeared on the Lex Fridman Podcast to discuss his latest work, Until the End of Time, while also referencing Erwin Schrödinger's classic book What Is Life? based on historical lectures from 1944. Alex Gladstein joined the Lex Fridman Podcast to discuss Natan Sharansky's book The Case for Democracy, highlighting the concept of the town square test as a measure of a free society. Additionally, the SmartLess podcast featured an interview with Joe Buck, during which the hosts humorously discussed his memoir Lucky Bastard, joking about finding copies on discount racks everywhere. These conversations collectively highlighted how authors and podcast hosts utilized written works to examine complex historical, technological, and societal themes.
The Daily Stoic
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Infantry Attacks
Discussed“The Rommel papers read similarly, offering practical solutions, just like his earlier book 'Infantry Attacks.'”
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The Future of War
Discussed“I read Lawrence Friedman's book 'The Future of War.'”
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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Combinators
Discussed“um you know this new book I wrote about combinators is is full of stuff like this and and this journal complex systems has lots of papers about these kinds of things but but there isn't really a home for people who do rology or what I'm not the as you call the basic science of rules”
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Until the End of Time
Discussed“the following is a conversation with brian greene theoretical physicist at columbia and author of many amazing books on physics including his latest until the end of time mind matter and our search for meaning in an evolving universe”
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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 Fear
Discussed“I have four books I'll briefly mention... number one is the fear... the fear was written by peter godwin”
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The Mandibles
Discussed“third one is a fiction book uh called the mandibles written by lionel shriver”
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The Internet of Money
Discussed“my portal into bitcoin was the internet of money by andreas antonopoulos”
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Notes from Underground
Discussed“There's a book called uh what is it man from underground by dostoevsky I might be misnaming the book but it's about the bitterness of a man”
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The Tao of Wu
Discussed“the following is a conversation with rizza the rapper record producer filmmaker actor writer philosopher kung fu scholar and the mastermind of the legendary hip-hop group wu-tang clan this is the lex friedman podcast to support it please check out our sponsors in the description and now here's my conversation with rizza in the tao of wu”
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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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Bobby Digital and The Pit of Snakes
Discussed“read the dowels let's start with the wu tang manual first”
SmartLess
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Lucky Bastard
Discussed“Joe, the book is called Lucky Bastard. Lucky Bastard can be found wherever you like to buy your own books, it's on discount racks everywhere! Is he giving you a cut of his shit because you keep... what is this?”
Monday Morning Podcast
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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.”
