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Books podcasts were talking about in September 2022
September 2022 conversations on podcasts highlighted works of investigative journalism, historical analysis, and psychological insight. On Behind the Bastards, Robert Evans recommended Christian Ingrao's The SS Dirlewanger Brigade to explore the esoteric history of Nazi ideology, while Alisa Majube suggested several investigative texts concerning the Unification Church and political scandals, including Scott and Jon Lee Anderson's Inside the League, John Gorenfeld's Bad Moon Rising, and Robert B. Boettcher's Gifts of Deceit. Personal development and interpersonal relationships were addressed when Mike Rinder promoted Martha Stout's The Sociopath Next Door on The Megyn Kelly Show, noting how the book aided his understanding of human behavior after leaving the Church of Scientology. On the Lex Fridman Podcast, Lex Fridman referenced Kenneth Stanley and Joel Lehman's Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned to discuss goal setting and artificial intelligence. Additionally, Scott Mann mentioned Gary Berntsen's Jawbreaker on The Shawn Ryan Show during a discussion about the early invasion of Afghanistan.
The Book Review
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Our Missing Hearts
Discussed“Celeste in's new novel our missing Hearts takes place in a United States where certain books are destroyed asian-americans face constant violence and children are taken away from families who speak out against the government it feels far off but not so far off as Stephen King writes in his review of in's book her dystopia feels milder than in”
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In the unlikely event
Discussed“Pamela recently as part of our recurring series The Essentials which helps readers w we through authors with substantial backlists we took a look at Judy Bloom while she's best known for her work for younger readers her most recent novel 2015's in the unlikely event was aimed squarely at adults”
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Telex from Cuba
Discussed“she had been invited as a new voice and she was on stage talking about her first novel Telex from Cuba a book that I had loved very much”
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Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself
Discussed“yes in your favorite in your very favorite of my books starring Sally J Friedman as herself which is truly my most autobiographical book this book is not autobiographical although people seem to think that it is”
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The trials of Oscar Wilde
Discussed“I saw a book called The Trials of Oscar wild I said oh I'll take that she said well I think you might be a bit young for that”
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The hollow man
Discussed“Hugh and I went to see Hollow Man the worst movie I've seen in a long time it opened with Kevin Bacon around on his computer”
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Joan Didion
Discussed“I can go back through my early Diaries and I can say oh look who discovered Jon didan because she know she's such a strong stylist”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Concussion
Discussed“this is they made the NFL made the or the movie about the NFL has made concussion and the NFL has made reforms since it got outed for not paying anywhere near enough attention”
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A Billion Years
Discussed“in his new book out today called a billion years my escape from a life in the highest ranks of Scientology he details it all including incredible stories about Tom Cruise Nicole Kidman John Travolta and what happened the one time he tried to lure Michael Jackson into the church”
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Dianetics, the modern science of mental health
Discussed“because there is a concept that Hubbard had in his fundamental book Dianetics the modern science of mental health that you have these incidents that occur that cause you to have negative emotions reactions pains upsets whatever”
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The Sociopath Next Door
Recommended“that's a you know I I promote this book that I read when I left by a professor at Harvard called Martha Stout called the sociopath next door a wonderful book by the way”
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Jesus of Nazareth
Discussed“in response to this there was a guy named Cardinal ratzinger AKA Pope Benedict the 16th who wrote a book called Jesus of Nazareth where he says me because he respects this Rabbi a lot and he said okay here's here's my response response is he did establish a kingdom”
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The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing
Discussed“I co-wrote a book with a black author um called the business secrets of drug dealing”
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Lessons from the Prairie
Discussed“that's what led me to write my very first book which was lessons from the Prairie and I actually wrote that in three months”
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Option B
Discussed“Option B the book facebook executive cheryl samberg wrote in the wake of losing her husband has been a comfort it really helped um a lot i mean it talks a lot about loss and devastating loss and um um so just that you're not alone and different things she went through that we could certainly relate to”
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Discrimination and Disparities
Recommended“and i watched more and more and more and ended up purchasing his book discrimination and disparities and when i read that i just could not believe that this was not information that everybody was was given in having these conversations”
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The end of America
Recommended“that reminds me of naomi wolfe's book though uh which i've been sort of semi obsessed with lately the bodies of others excellent book on this”
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The Bodies of Others
Recommended“that reminds me of naomi wolfe's book though uh which i've been sort of semi obsessed with lately the bodies of others excellent book on this on what happened just she is an amazing mind and she talks about the demarcations in it and how this new thing of infantilizing adults crept in”
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Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides' Trap?
Discussed“and that if you know there's the famous thought experiment of the thucydides trap graham allison popularized it which said that effectively when you have a an empire in decline another rising empire they're inevitably destined to enter into physical conflict”
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The Resurrected Jesus
Discussed“they wrote the new book the resurrected jesus the church and the new testament”
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Broken News
Discussed“xbox news staffer chris dyerwell makes most shocking claim yet about old employer in book i'm like oh what what is it like what is it what what is it uh stywalt says the network's motive for pushing a far right agenda isn't to help the conservative cause and elect republicans”
My First Million
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Rise
Discussed“and the reason I'm thinking about that is I just finished this like Epic book it's like 1400 pages long it's called the uh what is it called the I think it's the rise and fall of the Third Reich have you heard of that”
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More money than God
Discussed“one thing that's like I don't know if this is actually interesting or not you tell me but basically I'm reading this book called more money than God and it's about the history of hedge funds”
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Talk Like TED
Recommended“and then speak like a ted talk or something like that it's called like the ted talker ted talk speakers guide or something like that that's quite good”
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How Stuff Works
Discussed“Or like you know, there's this Twitter account I love called How Stuff Works or something like that. I love it. And to today they posted a thing of like it was like "How luggage gets loaded into an airplane."”
This Week in Startups
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Fire and Blood
Discussed“I mean I don't know that he's got that whole Fire and Blood book that George RR Martin wrote that they're sort of cribbing off of which is almost written like a history it's not written like a novel it's written like a history book about the Targaryen Dynasty”
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Girls Who Code
Discussed“uh because my homie reshma sajani posted it on her Instagram uh who founded of course girls who code on her Instagram and it appears to have in fact been the case that in the midst of a huge shortage of workers and education around stem and coding and technology”
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The World After Capital
Discussed“I'm interviewing Union Square Ventures managing partner and author of the world after Capital Albert Wenger. we talk about his investment thesis the new relatively new climate fund that Union Square Ventures has raised”
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Star Wars - Thrawn Trilogy - Heir to the Empire
Discussed“but they have taken thrawn from the Timothy Zahn books and put him in a great character I love this book but it's not it's not”
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The Spotify Play
Discussed“the book Spotify Untold by Swedish author Sven Carlson and Jonas the book I made that I did I have no idea um I think I did great as far as I'm concerned”
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Paper Girls
Discussed“I did start watching paper girls but then I heard it's already canceled so I don't know I stupid Brian K Vaughn's stuff is not translating to TV he did why the last man he did paper girls these are such great books”
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The Two Towers
Discussed“but they are also Reviving interest in this valuable IP that they will own for moving forward so the idea that if you get a bunch of people into Lord of the Rings again you could sell books or merch or experiences or video games The Fellowship of the Ring and the two towers as part of this”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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Living with Terror, Working with Trauma
Discussed“Dr Crystal wrote in a chapter he contributed to living with Terror working with trauma a clinician's handbook”
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The Vagabond's Way
Discussed“his newest book is the Vagabonds way 366 meditations on wander lust Discovery and the Art of travel”
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The Three Pillars of Zen
Discussed“If you read a lot of the Zen books that are out there, a lot of the whether it be the three pillars of Zen or Zen the authentic gate, a lot of the big unlocks that happen with meditation are not just through 50 minutes a day...”
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Zen
Discussed“...whether it be the three pillars of Zen or Zen the authentic gate, a lot of the big unlocks that happen with meditation are not just through 50 minutes a day...”
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The Neverending Story
Discussed“And especially given some of the darker stuff that I've talked about in my childhood, it's easy for my psyche to weigh the negative more heavily, right? To weigh the dark stuff more heavily. But by say going then into some of these these corners of the fiction world it's brought me back to for instance, right now I'm rereading”
Behind the Bastards
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Heinrich Himmler
Discussed“And I'm going to quote from a write up in Hinrich Himmler, a life here. Duranganger's leadership of the Sa Commando was characterized by continued alcohol abuse, looting, sadistic atrocities, rape, and murder.”
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The SS Dirlewanger Brigade
Recommended“And if you want to read Christian's book, which I do recommend, he goes into a lot of detail about what this means, kind of the esoteric history. I don't understand all of this.”
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Rawhide Down
Discussed“On the 30th anniversary of the assassination attempt, journalist Dell Winton Wilbur published Rawhide Down, a thorough investigation full of revelations of what happened that day. The book is written in the style of true crime”
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Pagan Imperialism
Discussed“He kind of carries on some of the traditionalist political philosophy from 20th century esoteric fascist writers like Julius Civola whose book on pagan imperialism Dugan translated into Russian.”
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Inside the League
Recommended“Read Inside the League by Scott and Lee Anderson. Okay. I I I I I I I I will say this. They're it it is kind of hard to read because these people are journalists.”
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Bad Moon Rising
Recommended“And plug John Gorenfeld's book. Oh, it's called Bad Moon Rising. Bad Moon Rising. Yes. Yes. Yeah. John is great. He— Yeah, it's another really good book on that.”
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Gifts of Deceit
Recommended“And then another book I would suggest is Gifts of Deceit about the Tongen Park scandal and Korea Gate. Another good one.”
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The Mind at Mischief
Discussed“The first writing that we have by Sadler on the matter was published in a 1929 book, The Mind at Mischief, which is mostly a debunking of mediums and psychics.”
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Introduction to World Religions
Discussed“At any rate, this write up from the root text UFO religions edited by Christopher Partridge tells the next part of the story.”
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Let God Talk to You
Discussed“So more detail on the contact commission comes from the book God talk which describe and that's by our buddy the Gu which describes it as quote a tightly interwoven incestuous family unit.”
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The Passing of the Great Race Or the Racial Basis of European History, by Madison Grant,... New Edition... with a New Preface by Henry Fairfield Osborn,...
Critiqued“It's not surprising then that in 1916, the Saddlers became dedicated fans of an author named Madison Grant and his new best-selling book, The Passing of a Great Race. Now, oh no. You hear race in the title of a book in 1916, and you know this isn't going to go anywhere good, right?”
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Long Heads and Round Heads; Or, What's the Matter with Germany
Critiqued“And he publishes a book, Long Heads and Round Heads, which is a racial expose of the German people. Um, and this is this is some of that good [ __ ] This is that like anti-German racism. It's it's very fun. So, the book reveals Sadler's findings that Germany is dominated by two different races.”
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The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-supremacy
Critiqued“Um, anyway, in 1920, another racist named Lothuprup Stoddard wrote a book titled The Rising Tide of Color Against White World Supremacy. Now, that's quite a title. Uh, and it it goes on to become like the bestselling eugenics text of the era.”
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Race Decadence
Critiqued“And after Lothrop Stoddard's book comes out in 1920, in 1922 he writes another copycat racism book called Racial Decadence in which he claims America's genetic heritage is at risk due to the rapid birth rate of non-white people. Um, and honestly, Racial Decadence sounds like it should be a good book.”
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The Truth about Heredity
Critiqued“In 1930 Sadler publishes the truth about heredity. Um now this is a book about genetic science and I I will remind you here this man never receives a proper education. um all almost all of his schooling is through 7th Day Adventist facilities and then being trained on how to cut people open and then going to some lectures”
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Testimonies for the Church Volume 1
Discussed“Ellen continues receiving visions and dreams over the next half century. They're collected in a book, Testimonies of the Church, which eventually takes up nine volumes. As time went on, her preaching diverged more and more from Christian orthodoxy.”
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Urantia
Discussed“Now, a different writeup from the book Orantia, the great cult mystery by Martin Gardner gives his side of things. Quote, "Both Sadler and Dr. Kellogg became deeply disturbed by flaws in Mrs. White's testimonies, which she insisted were divinely inspired, and by evidence that hundreds of passages in Mrs. White's books were copied from earlier works without giving credit”
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Royal Babylon
Discussed“I'm going to quote from the book Royal Babylon by English poet and activist Heath Coat Williams. Quote, "The fact that each US president's record, without exception, would earn them seats on the dock at Nuremberg or at the International Criminal Court on genocide charges doesn't deter the royal family from honoring them.”
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Britain's Gulag
Discussed“Um meanwhile 1.5 million Kenyans were confined to a network of detention camps and uh heavily patrolled villages as documented by uh historian Caroline Elkins in her pulser wise winning Britain's goolog.”
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Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims
Discussed“we're going to be reading a very special book by Rush Limba titled Rush Ravier and the Brave Pilgrims.”
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The Other Slavery
Discussed“And I want to quote now from a book called The Other Slavery by Andre Rendez.”
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Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem
Discussed“And it's a book by Carol Delaney um that is about it's called Columbus and the quest for Jerusalem. Um now, this is a book that has some original research in it.”
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Columbus
Discussed“Anyway, uh the book Columbus by Laurence Bergreen, who's a much better historian than Carol Delaney, I think, um ably describes the status quo in his home when he was born re slavery.”
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The Occult World
Discussed“In 1882, he published a book consisting of his correspondence with Master Khumi. Soon after the book's release, a gentleman named Richard KD publicly accused Master Khumi of plagiarism.”
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The Mahatma Letters
Discussed“The Mohammed papers are like a huge moment in Theosophy where like they release these they it's it's basically kind of like the Sylmerelion of Theosophy.”
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The Antediluvian World
Discussed“Although writing shortly after Ignatius Donnelly, whose Atlantis, the antid-doluvian world, launched the Atlantis craze. Bllovzky did not place Atlantis in between Europe and America as Donnelly had, but rather in the far north near the North Pole.”
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Coming Race
Discussed“So, the entire cosmology of Blovsky's last book is based in large part on a mix of Bailey's work and that novel, The Coming Race, by Edward Bullworth Littton. Now, where he'd envisioned this underground master race as being like potential conquerors, she saw sees them as benevolent spirit guides.”
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The Myth of the 20th Century
Discussed“Alfred Rosenberg's book book, The Myth of the 20th century, which he publishes in 1930, is the second bestselling book in Nazi Germany under mine comp. Right? That's what I mean when I say this guy's like the number two ideologue of the Nazis.”
Timcast IRL
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The Photographic History of the Civil War in Ten Volumes
Discussed“I got books uh it's the photographic history of the Civil War it's his collection it's from 1913”
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The Montauk project
Discussed“the Montauk project was written what like 93 or something”
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Fed up
Recommended“watch Fed Up documentary very interesting information about the sugar industry”
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Uncle Vanya
Discussed“this always this kind of stuff always reminds me of um I always forget to what play it is anyway it's uh it's Chekhov and then three sisters what's his name I have it right Anton Chekhov yeah and he's saying uh he's saying ah it's Uncle Vanya it's Uncle Vanya it's Uncle Vanya and he's talking about the trees”
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None Dare Call It Treason
Discussed“none dare call it treason by john stormer who was considered a a john birch society guy”
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Masters of Deceit
Discussed“and masters of the seat was another book by j edgar hoover”
Dwarkesh Podcast
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An Economist Gets Lunch
Discussed“let me read you the following passage from an economist gets lunch okay and I want you to tell me how we can apply this insight to talent okay at a fancy restaurant the menu is well thought out the time and attention of the kitchen are scarce an item won't be on the menu unless there's a good reason”
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Civilizations
Discussed“there's a wonderful um uh book by Laurent Bin uh called Civilizations that in fact just does that.”
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Rebellion in the backlands (Os sertoes)
Discussed“there's a great um the great Brazilian sort of you know classic like Moby Decker is or or Huckfinn is to the US is this thing called um Oshotoys by a guy named Dunia and it's it's translated amazing translation very good translation in English to under rebellion in the backlands”
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Aztec Warfare
Recommended“There's a wonderful book by Ross Hess called um Aztec warfare in which he it's an amazing um book which is like a military history of the Aztecs.”
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Toyota Production System
Discussed“So I mean in that book um was it the machine or the other one the Toyota production system book but anyways they were talking about examples where people would try to optimize for local efficiencies.”
The Daily Stoic
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Path Lit by Lightning
Discussed“well one of the one of the things I loved uh I read the book and then I read the the New York Times review about it which was very uh positive”
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War and Peace
Discussed“You know, when you immerse yourself in War and Peace or something like that, it requires hours and hours of investment before you start to feel this world that Tolstoy conjured up around you out of sheer language.”
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The Lottery
Discussed“So, my dad, when one of the—I mean this is probably a little bit cliché or maybe obvious to some of your listeners, but when I was 15 or 16 and my best friend and I were studying all the time with my dad and we were navigating our social context and trying to figure out how to manage and”
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Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed
Discussed“For my dad, like enormously impactful books for him were like Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed, which I have to admit I used to talk to him about Maimonides and stuff, but I never actually read.”
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The Children
Discussed“And I was reading lately, I've been reading David Halberstam's book, The Children, on the sit-in movement.”
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Guide for the Perplexed
Discussed“for my dad, like enormously impactful um books for him were like Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed, which I have to admit I I I've I used to talk to him about Maimonides, but I never did actually read um Guide for the Perplexed.”
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Epictetus
Discussed“At the beginning of 'Meditations,' where Marcus thanks all his teachers and specifically Rusticus for lending him his copy of Epictetus from his library, you realize that 20 centuries ago, someone gave this man a book, and a light went on for him—the switch flipped, just as it did for you and for me.”
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The Discourses of Epictetus
Discussed“Or Epictetus—it feels like he’s calling you out instead of whoever it was in the lecture hall that he’s speaking to in Discourses.”
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Letters from a Stoic
Discussed“Well, it's interesting Ryan because I wrote this book wise up really thinking about Nicomachean Ethics and Seneca's Letters to a Stoic. So, it was never I never wrote it as a parenting book.”
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Blank check
Discussed“And that was my memory of Blank Check, which I think I probably got at a Hollywood video instead of a Blockbuster video cuz that's what we had near my house.”
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Back From the Dead
Recommended“But it was really through the grace of Bill Walton's amazing book uh Back from the Dead, where he talks about his life with chronic pain. I was like ah. I can I can”
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Shop class as soulcraft
Discussed“or as you're saying you know shop classes is where you work on your soul um how did you sort of come”
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Dependent Rational Animals
Recommended“there was a very good book called dependent rational Animals by Aleister McIntyre”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Power hold'em strategy
Discussed“You also wrote a book, I think 10 years ago, "Power Hold 'Em Strategy". It's interesting to think how much of the stuff in that book still applies, how much doesn't. - Listen, I still think the book holds up to a certain degree.”
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Steppenwolf
Discussed“Yeah, no, well no one gets out alive, I think is the Hermann Hesse, one of my favorite writers. He's a Nobel Prize winner, and in a book called Steppenwolf says, 'Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.'”
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Girl Decoded
Discussed“in the book you write I am who I am because I was raised by a particular set of parents both modern and conservative forward-thinking yet locked in Tradition”
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Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned
Recommended“he was at open AI he just laughed and here's a book called why greatness can't be planned and it's actually an AI book”
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Singularity Is Nearer
Discussed“I was very fortunate; I am very fortunate to be able to get a glimpse preview of your upcoming book, 'Singularity is Nearer.'”
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Danielle: Chronicles of a Superheroine
Discussed“in danielle one of your books you write about someone who has the courage to question assumptions that limit human imagination to solve problems”
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Blitzed
Discussed“I just recently finished a book titled 'Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich' by Norman Ohler.”
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Bound by War
Discussed“nevertheless you wrote the book bound by war that describes a century of war in the pacific”
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The Black Cloud
Discussed“When I was about 15 or 16, I remember reading a book by Fred Hoyle called 'The Black Cloud.'”
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Power, Sex, Suicide
Discussed“In your book 'Power, Sex, Suicide.'”
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Oxygen
Discussed“First, you wrote 'Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World,' as we've talked about the role of oxygen in life on Earth.”
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Transformer
Recommended“The following is a conversation with Nick Lane, a biochemist at University College London, an author of some of my favorite books on biology science and life ever written, including his two most recent, titled "Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death" and "The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way it is?"”
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Vital Question
Recommended“The following is a conversation with Nick Lane, a biochemist at University College London, an author of some of my favorite books on biology science and life ever written, including his two most recent, titled "Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death" and "The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way it is?"”
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Leviathan
Discussed“The Book of Ecclesiastes states that 'it's all vanity; it's all meaningless.'”
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On Bullshit
Discussed“You have an excellent 50-part lecture series online on the meaning crisis, and I think you describe in modern times an increase in depression, loneliness, cynicism, and, wait for it, the term used technically by Harry Frankfurt and adopted by you.”
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Will to Power, Nietzsche's Last Idol
Discussed“Nietzsche's 'Will to Power', Freud's thoughts about wanting to have sex with your mother – all these different explanations are what truly motivate human beings.”
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Educating Intuition
Discussed“This is Hogarth's proposal in 'Educating Intuition.'”
The Shawn Ryan Show
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Jawbreaker
Recommended“where the agency and if you ever read the book jawbreaker like you know for folks who listen to this like that that was the pilot team that paved the way for the Special Forces team that came in behind”
Modern Wisdom
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Transformative Experience
Discussed“so the vampire idea comes from the philosopher L.A Paul of Yale University and her book transformative experiences that I Riff on in my book”
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The Body Electric
Recommended“there are books about this like the body electric by robert becker or healing is voltage by jerry tennant”
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Healing is Voltage
Recommended“there are books about this like the body electric by robert becker or healing is voltage by jerry tennant”
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Earthing
Recommended“and there are books about this like the book earthing that has some really interesting data on how much that lowers inflammation”
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Gone Girl
Discussed“there is a um i think it's called gone girl which was a movie kind of a thriller movie a few years ago”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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St. Thomas Aquinas
Discussed“one of my favorite books is chesterton's book on Thomas Aquinas called St Thomas Aquinas the Del Marx”
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The Consolation of Philosophy
Discussed“one of their favorite books is boethius's consolation to philosophy”
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Fortitude
Discussed“i thought that would be really interesting but over the last few days i've also read his book new book fortitude something dan knows something about by the way fortitude american resilience in the age of outrage”
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False Alarm
Discussed“He is also a best-selling author whose books include false alarm how climate change panic costs us trillions hurts the poor and fails to fix the planet”
No Stupid Questions
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Nudge
Discussed“One of the most famous examples from the book Nudge by Thaler and Sunstein was about putting an image of a fly, a housefly, on a urinal in the airport. I think it was the airport in Amsterdam. Thaler and Sunstein didn't come up with this; they just thought it was a great example of the nudge framework, which is”
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Passages
Discussed“There was a book by Gail Sheehy which was just at the time massively everywhere; it was particularly looking at the passage of time and aging from a female perspective, but it was called 'Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life.' That was 1976.”
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The Conquest of Happiness
Discussed“I'm reading this book on chasing happiness by Bertrand Russell, also a philosopher, who says more or less the same thing: 'Don't spend your whole life thinking about your own happiness; it's the surest recipe to be unhappy.'”
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passages predictable crises of adult life
Discussed“from what I recall there was a book by Gail Sheehy which was just at the time massively everywhere it was particularly looking at the passage of time and aging from a female perspective but it was called passages predictable crises of adult life that was 1976.”
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Midlife
Recommended“It's called 'Midlife: A Philosophical Guide,' and he makes the argument that while the midlife crisis was kind of overhyped for a while, and then found to be not as prevalent as it was thought to be at one point, he doesn't dismiss it. He says there's all kinds of good reasons why this might exist.”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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Loving what is
Discussed“And that he is the one person in the world that could write on my book, 'Loving What Is.' Oh gosh, how do I tell this story?”
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The surrender experiment
Discussed“Ooh, um, I am super curious about, I was saying how I love Michael Singer and I think what I really love, I'm reading The Surrender Experiment right now, and I'm only in the first couple chapters.”
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Unfinished
Discussed“I feel insecure; I’m terrified that this book is coming out. It’s the first time I’ve ever written something so personal in my whole life.”
Big Technology Podcast
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Network Propaganda
Discussed“if you look at network propaganda from Yochai Bankler out of MIT there's over and over a lot of research that enormous amount of misinformation is coming from elite stakeholders in society”
Conversations with Tyler
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Discussed“I would go for Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. He became like a court wizard um based on um his uh uh uh practical Yankee understanding of things like the almanac and the the pattern of solar eclipses. So, that's a good example of practical knowledge leading to a pretty great job.”
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The history of the Lithuanian language
Discussed“One of my favorite books is um a uh one that was sent to me by a Neola Skripkaite. She's a Lithuanian and she sent me a book called The History of the Lithuanian Language.”
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Talent
Discussed“you end up writing have the great gift of writing a book with someone like tyler cohen on a topic as expansive as talent”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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The Heart of Addiction
Discussed“In some ways, I don't know if you're familiar, there's a psychiatrist named Lance Dodes who's at Harvard, who wrote a book called "The Heart of Addiction," and he is basically writing how traumatic circumstances promoted relapse to addictive behaviors.”
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Dying to Be Me
Discussed“An example is a very well known one, Anita Moorjani who wrote a book called Dying To Be Me.”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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The Myth of Normal
Discussed“uh this book the myth of normal this is your book yeah it's called the myth of normal trauma illness and healing in a toxic culture”
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The Hacking of the American Mind
Discussed“and so i was talking to a colleague of mine rob lustig who wrote a book called the hacking of the american mind and so how about the corporations deliberately create products that make people addicted”
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Scattered Minds
Discussed“that was my first book on adhd it's the american scattered or scattered minds depending on which edition you got”
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The Developing Mind
Discussed“dr daniel segal who's a psychiatrist at ucla and a very prolific author and mind researcher he says in his book the developing mind that the child uses the mature circuits of the adult brain to regulate its own immature unregulated circuits”
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The Evolved Nest
Recommended“and the book is called the evolved nest and it'll be published next year by north atlantic books”
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Black Flags
Discussed“i'm listening to a book right now it's called black flags you ever hear that no god sick it's about isis”
EconTalk
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How Minds Change
Discussed“and i i think it's also in um robert burton's book that you you reference burton in your book”
Huberman Lab
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Columbine
Discussed“For whatever reason, I listened to the book about Columbine, that went into a very detailed way about the origin of those boys that committed that...”
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Altered States
Discussed“so much so that in the beautiful book, "Altered States," they describe a number of different meditation practices, some a little bit longer than the one that I described”
SmartLess
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Saint Joan
Discussed“I carried a spear and a it was you know and George Bernard saw St Joan, but I did this play”
ChooseFI
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Cashflow Quadrant
Discussed“I'll come back to Robert Kiyosaki his second book cash flow quadrant had a tremendous impact on my life and it's basically if you can't afford it right you're you're living above your means”
Acquired
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Working Backwards
Discussed“amazon web services lives within the amazon associates program and that is run by a guy named colin breyer which is very very fun because colin goes on to do many things including recently co-authoring the book working backwards which is a great book we used for a source in both this episode and the previous episode on amazon.com”
