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Books podcasts were talking about in November 2022
November 2022 saw podcasts engaging with a diverse selection of literature focused on science fiction collections, brain health, economic power structures, and interpersonal dynamics. On SmartLess, Sean Hayes shared that he was listening to the classic science fiction collection by H.G. Wells. Similarly, on The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, Jim Keller recommended Iain M. Banks's Culture novels to illustrate a futuristic world where humans and artificial intelligence coexist. Personal development and health also drew notable attention, as Jay Shetty welcomed Jim Kwik on On Purpose with Jay Shetty, highlighting Kwik as the author of Limitless, while Rich Roll recommended Garth Davis's book Proteinaholic on The Rich Roll Podcast. Discussions extending into economic policy and political systems featured prominently on The Jordan Harbinger Show, where General Robert Spalding recommended Matt Stoller's Goliath to discuss historical trends of economic power consolidation, alongside Katherine M. Gehl, Michael E. Porter, and Stephen R. Thorne's The Politics Industry for its critique of partisan politics. Finally, Rob Henderson recommended Eric Berne's classic Games People Play on Modern Wisdom, and Kyle Morgan mentioned Ryan Hendrickson's Tip of the Spear on The Shawn Ryan Show. Together, these selections reflected a shared thematic interest in understanding complex systems, human optimization, historical economic cycles, and imaginative speculative futures.
Lex Fridman Podcast
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The Fellowship of the Ring
Discussed“And that was such an incredible, as you've probably seen, interacted with a large number of people; it's a whole world. It's a world that you escape to in the way like your favorite book like Lord of the Rings.”
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Cool it
Recommended“Bjørn Lomborg is the president of the Copenhagen Consensus Think Tank and the author of 'False Alarm', 'Cool It', and 'Skeptical Environmentalist'.”
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Economics in One Lesson
Recommended“The first econ book that I thought was really great 'cause it was written for teenagers, essentially, is one called Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt. It's like 150 pages. I recommend it to everybody sort of 15 and up.”
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The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self
Recommended“there's a great book by Carl Trueman called Rise and Triumph for the Modern Self, which I think is the best book in the last 10 years. That's been sort of impactful on some of the thoughts I've been having lately.”
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There Is Nothing for You Here
Discussed“She has made it to the White House from humble beginnings in the North of England, a story she tells in her book, "There's Nothing For You Here."”
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Collapse
Recommended“There's a really good book called "Collapse" by Vlodislav Zubok, who is a professor at London School of Economics, at LSE.”
Acquired
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Conspiracy of Fools
Discussed“and I read conspiracy of fools by Kurt eichenwald”
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The Qualcomm Equation
Recommended“well one small bit of Ado before we dive into the story is we owe a big thank you to Dave mock the author of The Incredible Book the Qualcomm equation Y which is not wellknown but is the definitive history of Qualcomm”
Pod Save America
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Rise and kill first
Discussed“like I was I'm reading this book uh uh rise and kill first about the about the the uh the Mossad and the early assassination campaigns at the Massad ran first 50 pages you've been reading this book for a year now it's a slow going”
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Station Eleven
Recommended“Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel who wrote station 11 which is a book about a pandemic that was phenomenal before the pandemics”
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Sea of Tranquility
Recommended“Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel who wrote station 11 which is a book about a pandemic that was phenomenal before the pandemics”
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The Devil Takes You Home
Recommended“another book called the devil takes you home by a guy named gabino Iglesias which is it's a sort of a Fantastical crime Noir book written that takes place on the Texas Mexico border”
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Mia Mayhem Is a Superhero!
Recommended“it's this book series called Mia Mayhem about a little girl who becomes a superhero kylo loves it”
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The Chaos Machine
Recommended“the chaos Machine by Max Fisher was fantastic about social media and he did like just years of reporting in these tech companies”
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Grace
Recommended“Grace by Cody Keenan yeah that's important again”
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The Candy House
Recommended“but the candy house by Jennifer Egan is fantastic”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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Evolution’s Rainbow
Discussed“so so there's a book called Evolution's rainbow okay which explores what species out there actually have full spectrum sex”
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Pet Sematary
Discussed“It’s like the cat in Pet Sematary that comes back to life; those things are a poor substitute for the original. You can replace these things, but there will always be unintended consequences, whether you're talking about rent control, minimum wage, or Zoom learning for school.”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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Heal Thyself
Discussed“there's another mindfulness book and I think the title is heal thyself and it's specifically written for healthcare practitioners and they teach a lot of these lifestyle um modifications and these lifestyle modifications are more powerful than any supplement or medication”
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Proteinaholic
Recommended“he's the author of an Incredible Book you should all read called protein a holic and somebody who is well steeped in the medical literature of countless studies”
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Be More Human
Discussed“We cover Tony's various endurance feats and his training, his coaching philosophy and the principles that underscore his beautiful new book, "Be More Human," which is really this amazing bible for deconstructing the ways of living that aren't serving us, and reconnecting with new ways of living, ways that are more in sync with our human biology and allow us”
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The Pose Method of Triathlon Techniques
Recommended“So if you... he did a great book on the "Pose Method" of triathlon, right? That's a brilliant book to unpack 'cause there's cycling in there, swimming in there, and there's running in there...”
SmartLess
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The Classic Science Fiction Collection
Recommended“I am listening to H.G Wells the science fiction collection it's really cool he talks it you know part of it is like who are the worlds if the time machine The Invisible Man the island of Dr Moreau like all those classic ones I'm listening to again it's so so cool”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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Limitless
Recommended“He is the foremost brain coach, an incredible author, and an amazing podcaster. My dear friend, Jim Kwik, the author of 'Limitless.'”
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The Silver Linings Playbook
Discussed“And so, like I like to tell stories and if I can you know, show and like I was telling you earlier, I like using Silver Linings Playbook because they're bipolar but they're having a life, they're having a relationship and as it may come with challenges, every relationship comes with challenges.”
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Girl, interrupted
Discussed“So then it's like navigating that and like you know, like I I mentioned like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Girl, Interrupted, favorite films, love them but that's not the reality Selena or I live in every day, you know, I have been in a facility and but it was not like what's being portrayed.”
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Daring Greatly
Recommended“I'm sure it's in a Brené Brown book somewhere, but the best advice I've received is about making mental health a part of your life. That's why I say to make it your friend; you need to understand it, even if sometimes you don't know why you're feeling the way you do.”
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Influence
Recommended“And I would say there's a book that just popped in my mind called Influence by Robert Cialdini. Which I've never read that!”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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Unrestricted warfare
Discussed“So, what you're talking about here is the new book unrestricted warfare, or the plan, I should say, unrestricted warfare.”
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The Kill Chain
Discussed“So you know Christian Bros talks about this; he's got a book called 'The Kill Chain,' and you know when you kind of look at the way that these colonels are thinking about war and you're looking at Christian, what Christian Bros is saying is we did not embrace Silicon Valley, and if we did, it'd make us more efficient”
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Goliath
Recommended“And I would say, you know, we've had sine waves—there's a good book called Goliath by Matt Stoller, and he talks about these trends.”
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The Politics Industry
Recommended“There’s a good book called The Politics Industry, written by a businessman from Wisconsin, who realized that the two political parties are not working on behalf of citizens but for party constituencies, donors, and party establishment.”
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My Ántonia
Discussed“That was to show that people read my book and think, 'Oh my gosh, I can’t believe things are so horrible,' when so many from Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen read my book and think I lived a fairy tale existence.”
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The Box
Recommended“and there's a great book actually called the box which is all about the invention and the rollout of the container and one of the consequences of the container was the ships got massively bigger”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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The Book of revelation
Discussed“there are two actually in the Book of Revelation which is describes the end or describes the finality of all things or the totality of all things is baby away for people who are more secular to kind of understand it and in that in that book there are two images interesting images about technology”
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The Culture
Recommended“I can recommend uh Ian Banks as an author English author I think he wrote a series of books on the he called the culture novels and it was a world where there was humans and then there was AI”
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Own Your Past Change Your Future
Discussed“And so, that you you talk in your book about changing your past, owning your past, and it's useful to define that.”
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Conservatism
Discussed“we're going to talk about his new book conservatism rediscovery and uh I'm very much looking forward to that”
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iGen
Discussed“We spoke today almost primarily about your new book igen an analysis of the first generation”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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Idea Makers
Discussed“I have not read this book of yours, but Idea Makers. It's a compilation of essays. How did you choose the players on the field for this? How did you choose the people you included?”
The Shawn Ryan Show
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Tip of the Spear
Recommended“and just recently retired um he wrote a book called tip of the spear um and I couldn't be more proud of him as a human being”
Modern Wisdom
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Yanoama
Discussed“I discussed this excerpt from this book called yanowama and it was recommended on Twitter by by the great David bus who I know you've had on this show and this is an amazing book this”
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Meditations on Violence
Discussed“yeah so the male monkey dance was uh written by this guy Rory Miller in a book called meditations on violence and in that book so he worked in law enforcement and he compiled interesting research”
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Games People Play
Recommended“I want to do a series on this book called games people play it's this classic book on transactional analysis by this uh this guy Eric Byrne”
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Kinsey Scale Emotionally Fragile Queer
Discussed“remember the Kinsey scale zero to six now and then you'll meet somebody who's an 11.”
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Building a Second Brain
Discussed“a bunch of my friends Ali abdal Thiago Forte these guys literally wrote the book he wrote a book called building a second brain like he's got the thing created”
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Everybody Lies
Discussed“I enjoyed the his first one which was what everybody lies”
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Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Discussed“I got suggested a book this weekend uh Churchill's Ministry of ungentlemanly warfare”
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Dollars And Sex
Discussed“she's uh she's an economist at British Columbia uh uh University and she's written a book called dollars and uh dollars and sex if I remember rightly”
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How to Lie with Statistics
Discussed“you can prove anything with Statistics or this famous book how to lie with Statistics”
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Wild Problems
Discussed“Russ Roberts from econ talk was on the show a little while ago in his new book Wild problems is literally all about this”
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The Coming of the Fairies
Discussed“um and he wrote a whole book at the coming of the fairies”
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Transport For Humans
Recommended“and um his most recent book when he was talking about transport for humans uh and some of the challenges”
The Daily Stoic
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Waging a Good War
Recommended“This is Tom Rick's book on the Civil Rights Movement called 'Waging a Good Work.'”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Discipline Equals Freedom
Discussed“my friend Jocko he uh has this quote Discipline Equals Freedom”
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The Kybalion
Recommended“have you heard of a book called A cabalian no well is to be right up your street the hermetics were Egyptians”
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Hamlet's Mill
Recommended“there's an amazing book um which I may have mentioned to you before Joe a book called Hamlet's Mill and it was written by two professors of the history of science Georgio de santiana and he of vesan back in the 60s and what book is dynamite”
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False Alarm
Discussed“what is your book called false alarm false alarm”
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Prioritizing the World
Discussed“that's the other book I brought you prioritizing development”
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True Believer
Discussed“So uh terminal is True Believer in the blood Savage son the devil's hand”
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In the Blood
Discussed“so uh terminal is True Believer in the blood Savage son the devil's hand I think that's what he's got out now and then he's working on number five”
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Savage Son
Discussed“so uh terminal is True Believer in the blood Savage son the devil's hand I think that's what he's got out now and then he's working on number five”
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The Devil's Hand
Discussed“so uh terminal is True Believer in the blood Savage son the devil's hand I think that's what he's got out now and then he's working on number five”
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The Way of the Bodhisattva
Discussed“Auntie Davis way of the bodhisattva says the mind is like a wild elephant”
a16z Podcast
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Hieroglyph
Discussed“we actually set up a project to create a science fiction Anthology called hieroglyph that was came out in I think 2013 2014”
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Force and freedom
Discussed“and it was actually gratifying I have this passage in there in one of the footnotes by a guy named Jacob Burkhart from force and freedom did you see that passage”
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Against Elections
Discussed“like the ancient Greeks thought democracy uh there's a great book called uh against elections the case for democracy it's a hilarious title and it basically says that the ancient Greeks they use a mechanism called sortition rather than elections”
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The World Book Encyclopedia
Discussed“like I mean when I was a kid I mean our family was very broke and I would say like the World Book Encyclopedia was the version of Google that we had and we were missing some volumes unfortunately which is why I'm so poorly versed on biology”
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Men, Machines, and Modern Times
Recommended“And it's the title of the book is called Man Machines in Modern Times. It's this topic.”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Bad Blood
Discussed“Megan I don't know what I've seen in the documentaries and and uh read in in the book about her bad blood”
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The Devil In The White City
Discussed“the way Eric Larson is sort of the king of narrative nonfiction these days with books like Devil in the White City and dead wake”
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Dead Wake
Discussed“the way Eric Larson is sort of the king of narrative nonfiction these days with books like Devil in the White City and dead wake”
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The gold coast
Discussed“and I think one of the main moments maybe the main moment was finishing the Gold Coast by Nelson DeMille and putting that down and thinking what I wouldn't give to sit down in a bar with this guy”
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Beautiful Ruins
Discussed“I've read his books I've read beautiful ruins and a few of other of his books”
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Levi's Unbuttoned
Recommended“We've spoken to Jennifer Sey before, but now she's back to discuss the fallout, the lessons learned, and her brand new book Levi's Unbuttoned The Woke Mob Took My Job But Gave Me My Voice. It's out tomorrow.”
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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Critiqued“If You Give a Mouse some nookie and green eggs and butt stuff”
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The King
Recommended“I recommend the book it's a great read it's a quick read and every page is full of new and interesting nuggets it's called the king the life of Charles III and uh it make a great Christmas gift too so Now's the Time it's out next week go order it now”
Huberman Lab
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Brain Energy
Recommended“Additionally, Dr. Palmer is the author of a terrific new book titled Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More. I have read the book, and it is an excellent read.”
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The Molecule of More
Recommended“Should you want to learn more about dopamine in general—not just its relation to addiction, but also in everyday life regarding pursuit and motivation—'The Molecule of More' is an excellent accompanying read.”
ChooseFI
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Mostly Harmless
Recommended“for those of you who don't know go read mostly harmless or hitchhiker's guide and get on board best books ever Douglas Adams”
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Mama Bear Apologetics® Guide to Sexuality
Recommended“I would say like where I try to spend my time there's a book called Mama Bear apologetics I'm just really focusing in and honing in on raising our kids in a way that aligns with our family beliefs”
No Stupid Questions
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Honor Bound
Recommended“found Ryan Brown's book honor bound really helpful to explain the difference between these cultures”
Behind the Bastards
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Reinventing Philanthropy
Discussed“Freriedman's book at the time that was new was called Reinventing Philanthropy, a framework for more effective giving. Um and he kind of he kind of extends the arguments that Singer is making.”
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Tobacco in History
Discussed“And Jordan Goodman, the author of tobacco and history, notes, to him, every cigarette was the same. All of the globalization that we are now familiar with through McDonald's and Starbucks, all of that was preceded by Duke and the cigarette.”
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Lula and His Politics of Cunning
Discussed“And this is where Lula like learns politics. Um, from the book Lula and his politics of cunning, quote, Lulu would have to master the mundane aspects of union life, including bureaucratic routines, budgets, services, and preparing union assemblies.”
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A Handbook of Primary Commodities in the Global Economy
Discussed“And Lula Lula like takes office and leaves power like almost exactly perfectly to take to take advantage of like the peak of the commodity boom, right? Lula comes into power in 200 in well okay so he wins 2002 election he takes off in 2003”
Timcast IRL
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V for Vendetta
Discussed“I'll give you an example that's a V for Vendetta. all the movies are like this”
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Men in black
Discussed“I love the conspiracy theory that the government funds movies to block conspiracy theories like Men In Black for instance. the conspiracy theory is that Men In Black are real so they make a movie about it”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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How to Be an Ex-Footballer
Discussed“well it's just come out in October I believe how to be an ex-footballer um the reviews for this book are insane much of the stories you've told um told me today some of them are in here some of them are in your previous book but both books are Sunday Times top bins bestseller”
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Blessed with a Brain Tumor
Discussed“in this book The Myth of normal lying to you a young man called Bill pie wrote a book called blessed with a brain tumor in a Hot Hog”
My First Million
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Howard Marks' Book Of Dope Stories
Discussed“I remember I read uh Howard Mark's book so he's like a famous billionaire uh investor value investor and specializes in distressed debt”
Conversations with Tyler
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Our America
Discussed“most notably we are recording today November 1st the publication date for Ken's new book called our America a photographic history and it is written with also Susanna steisel Brian Lee and David blistein”
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On Photography
Discussed“you know Susan Sontag wrote an amazing essay called on photography in which she understands the negative parts of it”
Monday Morning Podcast
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The Book of Basketball
Discussed“You know, Pat Riley, the disease of more, that I learned through the Bill Simmons book.”
The Rubin Report
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The Constitution of Knowledge
Discussed“But, I sign on with Jonathan Rauch's "The Constitution of Knowledge", I think you had Jonathan on your show?”
The Book Review
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Mike Nichols
Discussed“Mike Nichols Al life is Mark's third non-fiction book focused on film”
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Pictures At A Revolution Five Movies And The Birth Of The New Hollywood
Discussed“his first pictures at a revolution about the films nominated for Best Picture in 1967 remains one of my absolute favorite books on film”
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The City We Became
Discussed“and this series includes books the city we became and most recently the world we make”
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The World We Make
Discussed“and this series includes books the city we became and most recently the world we make”
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The inheritance trilogy
Recommended“I love The Inheritance Trilogy which is earlier and I recommend if people have not read it”
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Fullmetal Alchemist
Recommended“Full Metal Alchemist by homu arakawa if I'm not mangling her name um Full Metal Alchemist is great at sort of exploring and skewering systems”
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Mechanique
Recommended“I've been rereading a friend of mine's novel but also just a very good novel called mechanique by Genevie Valentine it is a story set in a post-apocalyptic World”
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Witch King
Recommended“Martha Wells is consistently one of my favorite authors um she's got a new book coming called The Witch King that I absolutely loved”
Dwarkesh Podcast
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The Panorama of the City of New York
Discussed“So it's interesting to look back on a time when we could actually get a lot of public works built very quickly and very efficiently and see if maybe we got our characterization of the people at the time wrong. And that's where your 2007 book comes in.”
EconTalk
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The Pencil of Nature
Discussed“when he presented his work which he called pencil of nature he was talking about it from a scientific point of view look look at the utility of this invention and he showed how photography could be used to inventory his glassware collection or to make a copy of some of his rare manuscripts”
StarTalk Radio
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Existential Physics
Discussed“and we found someone who's who just published a book titled existential physics scientist Guide to the biggest questions and that person is in the house right now except dialing in from Germany”
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The Life of the Cosmos
Discussed“and then he has some natural selection stuff going on on them and I forget the details but you wrote a whole book on this he he did write a whole book on it yeah it's called the life of the cosmos I think”
This Week in Startups
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The Rise of the Rest
Discussed“listen the book's great uh and the book is based on you starting the rise of the rest Venture Capital firm getting a bus and then deciding uh you would look at all the entrepreneurial communities”
