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Books podcasts were talking about in November 2021
Books discussed across various podcasts in November 2021 spanned topics ranging from advertising history and startup growth to evolutionary psychology, literature, and the philosophical dimensions of suffering. On The Tim Ferriss Show, Tim Ferriss spoke with Andrew Chen, noting that Chen frequently recommended Claude C. Hopkins's classic work My Life in Advertising. Ferriss also promoted Chen's own newly released title, The Cold Start Problem. Meanwhile, scientific and academic themes emerged on Huberman Lab, where host Andrew Huberman highlighted several works by guest Dr. David Buss, including his landmark publication The Evolution of Desire alongside his more recent release, When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault, which Huberman noted he was currently reading. Literary discussions took center stage on The Book Review, where host Pamela Paul and guest critics explored multiple titles. Dwight Garner shared his admiration for Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks, edited by Anna von Planta, while Paul plugged Garner's own paperback release, Garner's Quotations. Additionally, Alexandra Jacobs reviewed Michael Ignatieff's On Consolation. Finally, on Modern Wisdom, Chris Williamson concluded his episode by directing listeners to Paul Bloom's exploration of suffering and pleasure, The Sweet Spot. These diverse recommendations reflected a strong overarching interest in human behavior, personal growth, and the examination of both historical figures and contemporary psychological insights.
The Tim Ferriss Show
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My Life in Advertising
Recommended“i found that you often recommend a book called my life in advertising this is not a new book i recognized a name claude c hopkins and i recognized it in part because i remember having i think it was scientific advertising which was published a few years before this book recommended to me”
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The Cold Start Problem
Recommended“the new book is the cold start problem which people can find wherever books are sold”
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Salt to Taste
Discussed“Marco's first cookbook, salt taste subtitle the key to confident delicious cooking was nominated for a James Beard award”
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A Good Food Day
Discussed“he is also the author of a good food day and broo subtitle a bone broth cookbook”
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Brodo
Discussed“he is also the author of a good food day and broo subtitle a bone broth cookbook”
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This Is Water
Recommended“this is Water by David Foster Wallace is one I commonly give because it's just it's so short and and the message is so perfect in my opinion”
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Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking: 30th Anniversary Edition: a Cookbook
Recommended“and then for cookbooks I gotta say the marchella Huzan Essentials is just I I I I adore I adore that woman”
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Medicine Quest
Recommended“I was reading this book recently called medicine Quest by an ethnobotanist named Mark Plotkin and I'm hoping to excerpt some of it on the blog because there are a few chapters that are really just incredible”
Pod Save America
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You Can't Be Serious
Discussed“you write about this in the book can you talk about your journey from being an actor to leaving acting to be in a white house staffer”
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Dog Whistle Politics
Recommended“and you know my former Berkeley colleague Ian Haney Lopez has written this terrific book dog whistle politics where you know it's fantastic”
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Betrayal
Discussed“he's been accused of in an interview with abc's jonathan carl for his upcoming book betrayal which reveals new details about how the white house pressured vice president mike pence to steal the election”
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The Princess in Black
Discussed“is the princess in black which is about a princess who is also a superhero who protects her land from well-meaning but misguided monsters”
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Little Blue Truck
Discussed“here's the big blue truck here's another version of the big blue truck here's a third version of the big blue truck i think it's a little truck little blue truck i say that every night how did i forget the name of it yes little blue truck”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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Wonderworks
Discussed“dr angus fletcher who wrote wonderworks which is a study of the psychology of stories the psychology of narrative”
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The Fiat Standard
Recommended“so everyone remembers the two books are um the Bitcoin standard and the Fiat standard”
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Patriarcha
Discussed“i mean robert filmer makes that argument in his patriarcha and john locke argues against him”
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The Islamic Jesus
Discussed“and i'm interested in doing that because you wrote this book um the islamic jesus how the king of the jews became a prophet of the muslims”
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Nostalgia
Discussed“he is the author of nostalgia a psychological resource and supernatural death meaning and the power of the invisible word”
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Supernatural
Discussed“he is the author of nostalgia a psychological resource and supernatural death meaning and the power of the invisible word”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Rush on the Radio: A Tribute from His Sidekick for 30 Years
Discussed“he's got a new book out on limbaugh's legacy he's been deeply affected by rush and i loved reading it it really brought back some memories of my own of russia”
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The Jesus I Know
Discussed“She has written a beautiful new book called The Jesus I Know. Honest conversations and diverse opinions about who he is.”
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Republican Rescue
Recommended“he's also the author of a new book republican rescue which is making waves in the media and the political world and i'd love to ask him about it”
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Love You Forever
Recommended“but you never ever read that book i'll love you forever i mean if you haven't don't because it's like it's such a tearjerker”
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The Babylon Bee Guide to Wokeness
Recommended“and here's the book if you want to go buy it the babylon bee guide to wokeness please go check it out it's uh it's pretty fun it's a lot of 100 and that genuinely will make a great great christmas gift or a holiday present so do it”
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More Courageous Conversations About Race
Discussed“And they use this book, courageous conversations, and courageous conversations is the bad ideas of this man named Glenn Singleton.”
EconTalk
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Of Sound Mind
Discussed“her book and the subject of today's conversation is of sound mind how our brain constructs a meaningful sonic world”
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Mirrors in the Brain
Discussed“giacomo ritzelady who wrote this book i pulled it out just so people can see it it's mirrors mirrors in the brain giacomo ritzalatti”
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Create Your Own Economy
Recommended“tyler cowan's book creates your own economy you know the chapter on autism which is fantastic”
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Leisure
Recommended“So, one book, it's a small book, uh that I highly recommend to anyone is a book by Josef Pieper called Leisure as the Basis Leisure as the Basis of Culture.”
Huberman Lab
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The Evolution of Desire
Recommended“In addition to publishing dozens of landmark scientific studies, Doctor Buss has authored many important books, a few of those include, The Evolution of Desire,”
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When Men Behave Badly
Recommended“And his most recent book is the one that I'm reading now, which is called, When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault.”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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THE 5 SECOND RULE
Discussed“So this 5-second rule um you released the book, I think 2017, called the 5-second rule. And it's all about, you know, well, you tell me what it's about, where it came from.”
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The High 5 Habit
Discussed“Super compelling because that also has a lot of similarities with your with your new book. The high five habit. It does. Yeah. So, I'd love to hear the story of um of how this was born. And I imagine, you know, that that came out of, as you said, a low point in your life where you were you”
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Before and Laughter
Discussed“someone that writes in his brand new book about finding and pursuing your purpose.”
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Zen and the Art of Making a Living
Recommended“I literally went through uh it's two books um Zen and the Art of Making a Living I would recommend to people. It's still available. And there's a book called um What Color Is Your Parachute? They're quite corporate both of them.”
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What color is your parachute?
Recommended“And there's a book called um What Color Is Your Parachute? They're quite corporate both of them.”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Messages to the World
Discussed“so it was only a verso in the uk that published a famous volume called messages to the world which was the first combining compendium of of banan's writings”
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The Birdman of Lauderdale
Discussed“There's this um great book by clay christensen called competing against luck it's like a terrible uh title but within it there's uh effectively an expression of this thing called jobs to be done theory”
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The Ron Paul Revolution
Discussed“and the second he told me i'm like i'm so in because i had read ron paul and the fed i read i you know kind of had understanding how the fed is unfair”
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End the Fed
Discussed“and the second he told me i'm like i'm so in because i had read ron paul and the fed i read i you know kind of had understanding how the fed is unfair”
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The talent code
Discussed“have you read the book the talent code yeah it's great and that kind of talks about these talent hot spots all around the world”
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Discussed“and but it was like they would do the count of money christo you know moby dick you know robert louis stevenson robinson crusoe you know all the sort of classic books”
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Selected Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson
Discussed“and but it was like they would do the count of money christo you know moby dick you know robert louis stevenson robinson crusoe you know all the sort of classic books”
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The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes
Discussed“so i read a lot of that stuff uh for sure the annotated sherlock holmes um you you mentioned david deutsche as an inspiration for some of your work”
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Cryptonomicon
Discussed“so one in crypto nomicon is more like the alan turing side of things”
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The Emperor's New Mind
Recommended“gravitation you know is one of those or another one is um the road to reality by roger penrose which is just incredibly deep it starts with like two plus two equals four”
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The Fabric of Reality
Recommended“and one of the reasons i like david deutsch in particular his book the beginning of infinity um is that he talks about the power of explanations and the fact that um most civilizations are static that they've got a set of dogmas that they arrive at somehow and they just pass those on from one uh generation to the”
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The Road to Reality
Recommended“the road to reality by roger penrose which is just incredibly deep it starts with like two plus two equals four and it at the end you're at the boundaries of of physics”
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The Big Rig
Discussed“the following is a conversation with steve vaseli formerly a truck driver and now a sociologist at the university of pennsylvania who studies freight transportation his first book the big rig trucking in the decline of the american dream explains how long-haul trucking went from being one of the best blue collar jobs to one of the toughest”
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Panorama of Nations, Or, Journeys Among the Families of Men
Recommended“there's a really cool like um one thing i would recommend to to you and your listeners if you really want to see some like a remarkable page in sort of the history of labor and automation there's a a report that harry bridges who was um the socialist leader of the the longshoremen on the west coast and just”
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Memories and Machines: the Pattern of My Life
Recommended“there's a really cool like um one thing i would recommend to to you and your listeners if you really want to see some like a remarkable page in sort of the history of labor and automation there's a a report that harry bridges who was um the socialist leader of the the longshoremen on the west coast and just”
No Stupid Questions
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An Essay on Criticism
Discussed“the most famous version of this idea at least as far as I know comes from the British writer and satiris Alexander Pope who in his essay on criticism wrote a little learning is a dangerous thing”
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Winter Notes on Summer Impressions
Discussed“Wegner was directly inspired by a Moment from Russian novelist fjordar dostoyevsky's winter notes on summer Impressions one of his non-fiction pieces Dostoevsky writes quote”
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The Genetic Lottery
Recommended“There's a book out now; I really recommend it.”
Behind the Bastards
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The Conquest of Bread
Discussed“So, let us return to the source. Kirkotkin in the conquest of bread.”
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The Abolition of Work
Discussed“A few examples of like of like you know seinal anti-work books um is one of them is uh Bob Black's the abolition of work. Um Crime Think has a really good book just called work”
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A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
Discussed“We find reference to this process in the excellent classical dictionary of the vulgar tongue. I'm going to read from one from 1785. It says to fe is to put a live eel up the horse's fundament to make him lively and carry his tail well.”
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Kill Anything That Moves
Discussed“But when you're talking about ground level war crimes like we were talking about here, you'll run into a couple of different books. Nick Ters's Kill Anything That Moves and Gary Kulick's war stories.”
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WAR STORIES
Discussed“But when you're talking about ground level war crimes like we were talking about here, you'll run into a couple of different books. Nick Ters's Kill Anything That Moves and Gary Kulick's war stories. Uh and these are very opposed books.”
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The Islamic Declaration
Discussed“You know, talking about Islamicization, talking about Aliab's book that he wrote when he was like, I don't know, 18 or or whatever. Like, and you know, talking about World War II.”
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Bosnia, Kosova & the West
Recommended“Uh, but if you want to learn about the conflict uh from a leftist perspective, I always recommend um and I don't know where it's going now, but I always recommend um Bosnia, Kosova, and Yugoslavia by uh Mike Karadijis.”
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Mr. America
Discussed“And I'm going to quote from the biography Mr. America here. 11-month-old Byron, known within the family as Billy, was seated on his mother's lap. Suddenly, Billy tensed up, threw his head back, and began to contort his body as if overcome by a seizure.”
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How to Get Strong and how to Stay So
Discussed“One of the people who takes it on is a guy named William Blakey. Now in 1879 Blakey writes a book titled How to Get Strong and How to Stay So which is not a bad title for an exercise book.”
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The Athlete's Conquest
Discussed“He takes Jane Austin and replaces like the lady protagonist with like a jack dude. And the book is titled The Athletes Conquest. So again, let me I mean you can guess you can guess what's in that book, right?”
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Marriage a Lifelong Honeymoon
Discussed“And again, this is his second marriage. Bernard writes a book, which is his 10th book in the last 5 years. He's just writing books all the goddamn time now. And and he's it sounds like he's pivoted from plagiarizing Jane Austin to mostly just like fitness and self-help.”
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Discussed“And so we started a book group kind of in the interim reading how Europe underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney and you know had around 30 people show up to that.”
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Hammer of the Witches
Discussed“The first witch hunting book was called the hammer of the witches. Um and it is basic, right? And it is large portions of which are plagiarized from a previous book called Hammer of the Jews.”
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Free Women of Spain
Discussed“And, you know, kind of through talking to a bra, I've started reading this book on the free women of Spain and like thinking more about this also, right?”
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Scout's Honor
Discussed“it is not until I think the first really big academic quality work on abuse sexual abuse within the Boy Scouts is that book we've been quoting from Scouts Honor which we'll have linked in the the whole book is available online right now. It was published in 1994 by a guy named Patrick Bole.”
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Aids To Scouting
Discussed“In 1907, Baden-Powell rewrote Aids to Scouting for NCOs and Men, which he had originally written for soldiers to make it suitable for boys. Several of Baden-Powell's friends had been suggesting the rewrite as well as the creation of an outdoor boys club.”
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Aids to scouting for NCOs and men
Discussed“In 1907, Baden-Powell rewrote Aids to Scouting for NCOs and Men, which he had originally written for soldiers to make it suitable for boys. Several of Baden-Powell's friends had been suggesting the rewrite as well as the creation of an outdoor boys club.”
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The birch bark roll of woodcraft
Discussed“So he keeps doing it. And he eventually forms an organization that he called the Woodcraft Indians. This was so successful. It gets very popular. I think it was particularly in like the eastern chunk of the US that after a couple of years he writes a book called the Birch Bark Roll”
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Rovering to Success
Discussed“Rovering for to success, one of his books for boys, includes a chapter titled Women, in which he warns about the rutting season, that time when a boy is growing to manhood and finds himself obsessed by lust.”
Monday Morning Podcast
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Howard Cosell: The Man, the Myth, and the Transformation of American Sports
Discussed“Just to give you that little tidbit of information, I learned that the other day reading an actual book about Howard Cosell. Why would I read about other things?”
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The Last Headbangers: NFL Football in the Rowdy, Reckless '70s: the Era that Created Modern Sports
Discussed“Lawhead gave me the book, uh, some of the last headbangers or something like that. It's basically about when you just played with concussions and that type of thing—the level of cheating that was going on.”
The Book Review
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Our Journey Together
Discussed“we already saw as I mentioned that this photo book is doing quite well on Amazon and it's called our journey together”
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Patricia Highsmith : Her Diaries and Notebooks
Recommended“Patricia heith has a new new I mean she she she died in 1995 but there's a new book of her Diaries and notebooks out it's called Patricia heith her Diaries and notebooks 1941 to 1995 and I just loved it”
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Garner's Quotations
Recommended“and that is to say cuz Dwight will not and cannot say it himself that Dwight Garner's own unofficial weird kind of literature is out now in paperback Garner quotations”
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On Consolation
Recommended“but what I'd love to talk about delightful as Smith Memoir was was on consolation by Michael IGN and I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly the professor and former Canadian politician”
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The Deep Places
Recommended“the book again is called the Deep places Memoir of illness and Discovery by Ross doit”
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Resuscitation of a Hanged Man
Recommended“well I'm reading a novel that came out in 1990 called resuscitation of a hanged man by Dennis Johnson it is his fourth novel and I think it was his last book before he became a big star”
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Baggage
Discussed“the actor author screenwriter and performer will be here to talk about his latest book baggage”
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R.E. Lee
Discussed“and the the climax of that comes in the 1930s when Douglas soual Freeman produces his enormous four volume re Le which wins the Pitzer prize”
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The marble man
Discussed“in 1977 Thomas Connell published a book entitled The Marble man which really was very critical of Lee”
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The Russian Debutante's Handbook
Discussed“yeah I am his first novel called the Russian debutants handbook and it was it kind of made a splash”
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Solid Ivory
Recommended“I reviewed solid Ivory Memoirs by James Ivory”
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Both/and
Discussed“she'll join us to discuss her new Memoir both and and how do you recreate a chovan drama set on the Hudson in 2020”
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Let's go naked
Discussed“so the book is called let's go naked by Lewis Royer”
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The flight attendant
Discussed“and I read them within the last month but they are the flight attendant by Chris Balian and perfect little children by Sophie Hannah”
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Perfect Little Children
Discussed“and I read them within the last month but they are the flight attendant by Chris Balian and perfect little children by Sophie Hannah”
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The monogram murders
Discussed“there's one called the monogram murders there's the killings at king fisher Hill and I would say the little face is one of my favorite”
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The Killings at Kingfisher Hill
Discussed“there's one called the monogram murders there's the killings at king fisher Hill and I would say the little face is one of my favorite”
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Kind of cruel
Discussed“it's I think her first one from 2006 kind of cruel was really good lasting damage”
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Lasting Damage
Discussed“it's I think her first one from 2006 kind of cruel was really good lasting damage”
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The Red Lotus
Discussed“so the one I I reviewed God not that long ago it seems like forever was called the Red Lotus”
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Man in the Holocene
Recommended“I am reading man in the hallos scene by Max frish”
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Little Face
Recommended“it's I think her first one from 2006 kind of cruel was really good lasting damage”
The Realignment
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American Comics
Discussed“right around the same time a publicist reached out to talk about american comics a history um this is with columbia professor jeremy dalbert”
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Jewish Comedy
Discussed“is your previous book which we'll also put in the show notes about the state of comedy um where we're at your previous one was jewish comedy a serious history”
Modern Wisdom
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The Search for Social Entrepreneurship
Recommended“paul bloom ladies and gentlemen the sweet spot suffering pleasure and the key to a good life will be linked in the show notes below”
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Slowdown
Recommended“and there's another book called the great slowdown by danny dawling who's an oxford professor of geography who makes the point that actually most things in the world are either shrinking or the speed at which they're growing is shrinking”
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Jab, jab, jab, right hook
Discussed“and he famously says that if he like he's written a book called jab jab jab right hook but he says that if he could he would have named it jab jab jab jab like 20 times before the right hook”
My First Million
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The Design of Everyday Things
Recommended“and this idea there's this great book called the design of everyday things by don norman and it's a famous famous book”
The Rubin Report
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Thanksgiving
Discussed“One, we don't know as well, although you just wrote a book, I believe, about the second person.”
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Godey's Lady's Book
Discussed“She was editor of "Godey's Lady's Book" for 50 years,”
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The Problem of Pain
Discussed“c.s lewis wrote this book about pain and suffering called the problem of pain”
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Bias
Discussed“i mean uh um biased was out 20 years ago”
Timcast IRL
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The Wreck of the Titan
Discussed“did you know that there was a book called the titan and it was about a large cruise ship that hits an iceberg”
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Buried by the Times
Discussed“there's a book called buried by the times look it up”
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The Law of Self Defense
Discussed“i want i've been reading andrew branca's law of self-defense because he's a self-defense expert but avoidance means in certain places you have a duty to retreat not wisconsin but they kept saying he had a duty to retreat”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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Redefine Impossible
Recommended“So people should check out your book, Redefine Impossible.”
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One Breath
Discussed“I did One Breath on audio book.”
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Pastoral Song
Discussed“I was reading Pastoral Song at that time. So it's like all the breakdown of what's happened in terms of industrial agriculture...”
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AARP The Paleo Diet Revised
Discussed“Loren Cordain, he wrote "The Paleo Diet" book.”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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Man Enough
Recommended“and you know, he has a book called Man Enough.”
The Daily Stoic
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The Moral Animal
Discussed“A big theme of that book is that the human mind is unreliable as a guide to reality. It's as if our mind acts like a lawyer, trying to make the case for our interests.”
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Law of Attraction
Discussed“This exercise was in a book called 'Attraction' by someone named Dino. I realized there were a lot of things in the bottom two quadrants—things I don’t like doing but am good at.”
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Traction
Discussed“It was within a book called Traction by Gino someone. It was some some Yeah, this book I was reading.”
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A Minute to Think
Recommended“There's a great book I was reading. It's called A Minute to Think by Juliet Funt. Very recent book.”
Conversations with Tyler
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The American Experiment
Discussed“again the book is the american experiment dialogues on a dream”
This Week in Startups
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The Fixer
Discussed“i wrote this in my book 99.9 of politicians are desperately insecure self-loathing people that can't live without the validation of holding office and they will never ever choose kind of what's right ahead of what's politically expedient”
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The Startup Checklist
Discussed“Well in the book the startup checklist they talk about how they created checklists and procedures in operating rooms and lowered the number of people dying from things like septic shock when you get bacteria in your bloodstream”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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Africa's turn?
Discussed“so I do know in 2009 you wrote a book and you were very optimistic about Africa's future and it was called Africa's turn”
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Economic Gangsters
Recommended“If you enjoyed what you heard from Ted Miguel today, check out his book titled "Economic Gangsters," which he co-authored with another one of my favorite economists, Ray Fisman.”
Big Technology Podcast
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They Don't Represent Us
Discussed“if you look at, in my book, They Don't Represent Us, which came out in 2019 before all of this, but there's a section where I describe what I think of as the scariest graph in American politics”
Acquired
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The Origin of Wealth
Discussed“sort of early in the day, ”
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Complexity
Discussed“Complexity by M. Mitchell Waldrop to Brad. ”
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The Idea Factory
Recommended“there's this great book by the way called ”
SmartLess
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The Day of the Djinn Warriors
Discussed“I noticed recently I was reading the tenth book in the uh in the gunter uh, what's his name series by Philip Kerr and I noticed your name on the back.”
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Prussian Blue
Discussed“You gave a little um, a blurb for the back of uh, for the jacket of Prussian blue which I'm almost finished with. Oh that's a great one, it's a great one, right?”
