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Books podcasts were talking about in December 2022
Podcasts in December 2022 highlighted a wide variety of literature ranging from classic detective fiction and science fiction to specialized non-fiction and alternative histories. Tim Ferriss featured prominently by recommending James Crumley's influential crime novel The Last Good Kiss and the collaborative sci-fi novel This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone on The Tim Ferriss Show. Non-fiction and niche topics also drove significant discussion. On Stuff They Don't Want You To Know, Ben Bowlin brought up Mark Kurlansky's Salt to illustrate historical uses of currency, and David Bakara referenced Ron Morehead's Quantum Bigfoot to explore quantum physics in relation to Bigfoot lore. Additionally, listener correspondence on the same show led to discussions of Eliot Wigginton's The Foxfire Book regarding folk remedies. Freakonomics Radio announced the forthcoming feature of John List's book The Voltage Effect in its book club, and Jon Bernthal mentioned Stranger at the Gate on The Joe Rogan Experience. Though diverse in subject matter, these books frequently surfaced to ground broader explorations of storytelling, unconventional history, human resourcefulness, and cultural phenomena across multiple genres.
Stuff You Should Know
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More Than a Legend
Discussed“she started collecting all these different reports and and published the reports along with sketches from the people who'd had who's made these reports into a book called more than a legend in 1957 and it took the Loch Ness frivolity and turned it back into a potentially scientifically studiable thing”
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Building Houses out of Chicken Legs
Recommended“there was a um a a woman American study scholar named psyche Williams forson who wrote a book basically so this chicken made this house or this house was made by chicken yeah it was called building houses out of chicken legs colon black women food and power”
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Eating While Black
Recommended“because she has a new book out this year that looks great it seems like she really explores um sort of the diaspora and how that affected foods that black people ended up eating sort of around the world especially in America and there's a new one called eating while black food shaming and race in America”
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The American Plate
Discussed“this is a Libby O'Connell who's a food historian wrote a book called The American Plate colon culinary history in 100 bytes but Libby describes them as sort of like a soft potato and Bland and not like this crunchy thing”
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The ^AOxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets
Discussed“certainly in the book The Oxford companion to sugar and sweets there was a German Coral Master uh in Cologne Germany in the sort of latest 17th century”
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Elvis Day by Day
Discussed“and we know this because of the book Elvis colon day by day by Ernst Jorgensen and Peter girl Nick garelnick I think you got it the second time I think so”
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The Man who Came to Dinner
Discussed“Alexander Walcott he was like the stock acerbic um course um character who was kind of the center of the man who came to dinner it was based on him”
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Enough Rope
Discussed“she published three books of poetry and two short story Collections and one of which was the best seller enough rope was a poetry collection which was a bestseller”
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The Simple Solution to Rubik's Cube
Discussed“one of which I owned I owned uh the classic the simple solution to the Rubik's Cube by James G Norris”
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You Can Do The Cube
Discussed“at one point the number one two and four positions on the New York Times bestseller list were all Rubik's Cube solution books three was probably Stephen King or something probably and uh one of those books was written by a 12 year old named Patrick bossert called you can do the cube which is pretty adorable if you think”
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Recommended“Oliver Sacks actually had it the famed neurologist who Awakenings was based on his work and he wrote Awesome books like the man who Mystic his wife for a hat there you go”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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The Last Good Kiss
Recommended“The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley, C-R-U-M-L-E-Y. Some of the language is dated, I'll warn people in advance, so trigger warning, but it is, as it says in its description on Amazon, one of the most influential crime novels ever written by a legend of the genre.”
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This Is How You Lose the Time War (Deluxe Edition)
Recommended“there is a book called This Is How You Lose the Time War and part of what makes it so cool is that it was written by two people who alternated chapters as they went along, but it is entirely cohesive.”
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Dancing in the Streets
Discussed“A wonderful book, Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy by Barbara Ehrenreich.”
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Govt Cheese
Recommended“The newest book is your memoir, Govt Cheese, which is about all those years before the first publication...”
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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Salt Proof
Discussed“or salt was also used uh Mark kolanski has a great book called salt where he created the least creative thing about the book is the name but it is but it fits It looks at the history of salt and how Roman soldiers were paid in Seoul which is where we get the phrase cough it up to pay”
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Theology of Money
Discussed“so we'll return to Philip goodchild here for another quotation where European philosophers have often sought some decisive term that gives shape to the ways we think and act such as being truth difference the sublime the void time or even God it seems to me that money actually plays the decisive role in our society for money is at”
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Crossfire
Discussed“there's a author named Jim Mars and in his book Crossfire he argues that Kennedy was trying to rein in the Federal Reserve”
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Salt
Recommended“or salt was also used uh Mark kolanski has a great book called salt where he created the least creative thing about the book is the name but it is”
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Bigfoot Unveiled
Recommended“So it's Ron Morehead, the fellow that wrote the the Sierra Sounds. He just came up with a brand new book called Quantum Bigfoot where he discusses quantum physics and string theory and possibility of um of other universes and other realities being just within arm's reach of us, but we are unable to see them. But, other things are”
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The Urantia Book Workbooks
Discussed“he was also inspired by a book a very long book it's 2 000 Pages it's called the Urantia book uh your antia was first published in 1955 officially there's a lot of speculation about who wrote it but it's like one of those um in the world of Prophecy it's something that would be called a direct speech book”
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Red Dragon
Discussed“if this Bible John is the same person as Peter Tobin what's morbidly fascinating here is that we may be able to trace the evolution the increasing sophistication of a serial killer sort of similar to The Red Dragon cases mentioned in the Hannibal Lecter series”
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The Urantia book
Discussed“it's called the Urantia book uh your antia was first published in 1955 officially”
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The Foxfire Book
Recommended“It is a secret that can only be passed from man to woman or woman to man the two Cannot Be Blood related check out info into the Foxfire books”
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The Foxfire book
Recommended“it is a secret that can only be passed from man to woman or woman to man the two Cannot Be Blood related check out info into the Foxfire books”
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The Filth
Recommended“if you have not read the filth read the graph novel The filth today”
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Tartuffe
Discussed“I don't know there's a French play called tartuffe and for the which I remember reading years ago and for the first easily two-thirds of it people are talking about this tartooth dude and he doesn't show up until the end”
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American Gods
Recommended“so also that's an awesome book before we move on Yeah Yeah But book is great the show is turning out much better than I expected”
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Hogarth
Discussed“because even Yale professors were circulating this uh particularly Ronald Paulson in 1993 he published a book all about Hogarth and he kind of captions this Infamous painting by saying that it is about the Oxfordshire people rioting to preserve the 11 days the government stole from them by changing the calendar”
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The Black Monday Murders
Discussed“You know Ben this reminds me of the Black Monday murders what's the name of the the position within the Inner Circle that is this sacrifice it's like the chair no what what is it the stone chair the stone chair that dude step bladder was on the stone chair he was on the stone chair just I was thinking”
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The Berkut
Recommended“a very well researched yet sadly out of print novel called the berkut explores the theory quite well even though it goes down a little off the rails at some points”
Freakonomics Radio
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Little House on the Prairie
Discussed“I think back to the books and TV series from my childhood, such as Little House on the Prairie and Pa Ingalls. You often wonder if there's anything Pa can't do, and it turns out he could do a lot of things, but he couldn't do anything well.”
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The Peter Principle
Discussed“The book he wrote with Raymond Hall was called the Peter Principle. It wound up selling millions of copies.”
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The Voltage Effect
Discussed“In your book, John, you write, 'I don't believe Travis Kalanick is a bad person; he's a good person who made several bad calls at scale.'”
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Genius & Anxiety
Discussed“in a book called genius and anxiety how Jews changed the world 1847 to 1947 the author Norman lebrecht puts forth another possible explanation for the high level of Jewish achievement”
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The Superstition
Discussed“That's Stewart buys he is a retired psychology professor and author of a book called believing in Magic The psychology of superstition”
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Summary of Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Discussed“back in 2008 thaler published a book called nudge improving decisions about health wealth and happiness it was co-authored with the legal scholar Cass sunstein”
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Genius and Anxiety
Discussed“in a book called genius and anxiety how Jews changed the world 1847 to 1947 the author Norman lebrecht puts forth another possible explanation for the high level of Jewish achievement”
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Superstition
Discussed“that's Stewart buys he is a retired psychology professor and author of a book called believing in Magic the psychology of superstition”
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City of Champions
Discussed“shamansky happens to live near Detroit and he is co-author of a book called city of Champions about Detroit's sporting Legends”
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Great Ideas for VBS
Recommended“the experimental economist John list who's been on the show before has just published a book called the voltage effect how to make good ideas great and great ideas scale next week we'll hear from it and him in a special edition of the Freakonomics radio book club”
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Irrational Exuberance
Discussed“Bob Schiller is a Nobel Laureate Economist who wrote the book irrational exuberance you know a traditional Ponzi scheme”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Byrne's New Standard Book of Pool and Billiards
Discussed“um is a book called mcgirty life of a billiard Hustler very interesting book about Robert Byrne wrote it and it's about a guy who you know Robert Byrne the guy who writes all those instructional books”
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The Seagull
Discussed“they're the first play they did was the seagull and uh they um they they they put that play together in a summer home outside Moscow”
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Bulgakov
Discussed“people weren't reading you know US Weekly they were reading bulgalkov and Tolstoy”
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Leo Tolstoy, His Life and Work
Discussed“people weren't reading you know US Weekly they were reading bulgalkov and Tolstoy”
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Stranger at the gate
Recommended“there's a beautiful documentary coming out called stranger at the gate that's that's that's about his life”
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Rising Wolf, the White Blackfoot
Discussed“no sounds like I'm reading a book called um Rising Wolf the white Blackfoot what is that it's I first uh oh it's a book about this kid it's a book about this kid in the 1700s that uh I'm sorry 1800s that came out with the Hudson Bay Company up into the vicinity of Calgary and then was assigned”
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Saving Private Ryan
Discussed“uh when I was in Baghdad one of the things I was struck by was the this ceaseless like hamster wheel repetition of the war that it wasn't organized around a single Mission it was this feudal attempt to try to find all these bombs that had been dispersed throughout the country by the counterinsurgency so I couldn't organize it”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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Hooked
Discussed“while I was reading that book I happened to stop off at home back in the southwest in Plymouth and I accidentally left it in my father's bathroom”
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Starry Messenger
Recommended“thank you for um being the Star Messenger in my life Which is the name of your new book because you uh it's funny I was I was was thinking about it as as we started this conversation that that was actually the moment that I became obsessed with the universe when I first watched you present Cosmos all those”
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Screw It, Let's Do It
Discussed“When you came down from that space flight, which is detailed in your your second memoir in the the sort of updated version which has just been updated, you wrote a letter to your mom after coming down from space.”
The Daily Stoic
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The Brass Check, a Study of American Journalism
Discussed“It's like that expression from Upton Sinclair, who wrote sort of very critically about journalism in one of his great books called The Brass Check, he was saying like it's impossible to get someone to understand something that their salary depends on them not understanding.”
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How will you measure your life?
Discussed“Clay Christensen, one of the great business consultants of all time, wrote a book on how to measure your life. His whole career was about measuring success in business, but in the end, he tells Harvard MBAs that none of that matters; you have to measure your life by other things.”
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Nomadland
Discussed“It's these kinds of ripples compounded over generations that explain the country we live in right now. Have you read 'Nomadland'? Yeah, I remember as I was reading it, there's a part of me that was sorting through my capitalistic side and trying to understand how it could be this person's fault.”
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Clayton Christensen's "how Will You Measure Your Life?"
Discussed“Clay Christensen one of the great sort of Business Consultants of all time you know I don't I think there's a certain sweetness but also irony in that like the last thing he wrote was this book how to measure your life”
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Play Nice but Win
Discussed“I haven't read his new book but you know the the book is the other one which is also great play nice but win play nice but win”
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Rome's Last Citizen
Recommended“Check out Rome’s Last Citizen by Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni.”
StarTalk Radio
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Dark Emu
Discussed“there's a book called Dark emu do you know about that dark oh I haven't heard about the book but I do know about the Emu constellation”
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The Secret of the Incas
Discussed“you know William Sullivan's secret of the Incas myth astronomy and the war against time”
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Unstoppable Us, Volume 1: How Humans Took Over the World
Discussed“and you may know him as the author of some hugely best-selling books sapiens every history of mankind homodeus A Brief History Of Tomorrow 21 lessons for the 21st century and just recently a new book called Unstoppable us how humans took over the world”
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The Unworthy Thor
Discussed“there was actually a period of time to show a a comic book series called the Unworthy Thor where for a moment there he could not pick up the hammer because he was briefly unworthy”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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Power Vs. Force
Discussed“I read a book called power versus Force by David Hawkins and down to the examples in the book were some of the examples in the modules”
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Take Back Your Life
Recommended“and the one that I found I relate to the most was in a young Elitch's book take back your life where it talks about moral injury”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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Anxiety Rx
Recommended“What I've learned about this and I would strongly encourage you to bring Dr. Russell Kennedy onto your show. He wrote the book Anxiety RX.”
Huberman Lab
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Extreme Ownership
Discussed“This took the form of several important books, the first of which was published in 2015 and is entitled 'Extreme Ownership: How US Navy Seals Lead and Win.'”
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Way of the Warrior Kid
Discussed“I've read both 'Extreme Ownership' and 'The Way of the Warrior Kid,' and I found them to be immensely useful in terms of actionable information and understanding oneself and different kinds of relationships, both in and out of the workplace.”
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On the Psychology of Military Incompetence
Discussed“There's a compelling book called 'The Psychology of Military Incompetence' that I ended up discussing in about four podcasts.”
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Leadership Strategy and Tactics
Recommended“What I should have said was, hey, read the book Leadership Strategy and Tactics. It's a good book for someone that is going to be in an environment that's going to be challenging and where you're going to be faced with leadership challenges.”
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This Is Your Mind On Plants
Discussed“This concept was explored thoroughly in a book by Michael Pollan about caffeine, which I found enjoyable. Nevertheless, when he returned to caffeine after a long break, the effects on his mood, alertness, and overall well-being felt almost remarkable; this reinforced for him how much caffeine contributed to his normal functioning.”
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Caffeine
Recommended“This was something that was actually covered in beautiful detail in a book by Michael Pollan all about caffeine. It's available on Audible. I really enjoyed that book.”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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How to Be Love(d)
Recommended“We're putting the link in the captions and in the show notes: How to Be Loved by Humble the Poet.”
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Manifest
Recommended“Ah but for everyone who's been listening, I want you to go out and grab a copy of Manifest: Seven Steps to Living Your Best Life by Roxy Nafousi.”
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Do You Know Who You Are?
Recommended“And the other book is called Don't You Know Who I Am? How to Stay Sane in an Era of narcissism, entitlement, and incivility. Um Yeah. this book is also available right now, and so I highly recommend both these books.”
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
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The Ride of a Lifetime
Recommended“Yeah, did you guys read the book he wrote, A Ride of a Lifetime? What is it?”
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Putting the Rabbit in the Hat
Recommended“putting the rabbit in the Hat is uh Brian Cox you may know him from secession”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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The Hemingses of Monticello
Recommended“and the great historian on this is Annette Gordon Reed who has a fabulous and important book called The Hemmings family of Monticello”
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The influence of sea power upon history, 1660-1783
Discussed“he had been reading apparently the work of admirable Han the influence of Sea power on History allegedly kept it next to his bedside table”
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The Love Dare
Discussed“and uh his Dad gives him this book called The Love Dare and it's a 40-day challenge uh to see if he's man enough to love his wife unconditionally regardless of her response for 40 days”
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As You Grow
Discussed“you have a book out it's a children's book and it's called as you grow and it's celebrates faith family and biblical wisdom”
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Smart Girl's Guide
Discussed“well now now Adam what you can get is a book called uh body image a smart Girl's Guide which gives advice to girls as young as three on how to change their gender by asking doctors for puberty blockers”
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Children of Dune
Discussed“but it's from Children of Doom which I believe is the sequel which I have not read, but the quote is when I am weak I demand freedom”
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REVENGE
Discussed“again back to Tom Bauer's book Revenge if you read about her history all she she desperate”
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The Crown (The Selection #5)
Discussed“I'm not watching the uh documentary you'll be shocked to hear I am watching the crown I love the crown”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Stalin's citizens
Discussed“Perhaps I'll sort of reveal my bias here as I've been reading too much, maybe not enough, but a lot about, you know, books like 'Stalin's War in Ukraine,' and just I've been reading a lot about the 30s and 40s for personal reasons related to my travels in Ukraine and all that kind of stuff.”
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The Spirit Level
Discussed“there's been plenty of of studies uh there's one book called the spirit level on um on inequality that was quite popular that just notes that inequality is really terrible for the psyches um of the rich too”
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The Socialist Manifesto
Discussed“You also wrote the book that we mentioned a few times, The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality. What's the framework?”
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Stalin's war
Discussed“as I've been reading a I was going to say too much maybe not enough but a lot about you know books like Stalin's war in Ukraine and just I've been reading a lot about the 30s and the 40s”
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The Monthly Review
Discussed“Albert Einstein wrote an article for the first issue of this um left-wing um magazines actually still publishing today called monthly review and I think 1949 and his his article is called by socialism”
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The age of extremes
Recommended“I started off reading books like Eric hopis bombs um uh four books on um history going from the 1700s all the way to 1994 the last book is age of extremes”
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The Anarchist Handbook
Discussed“and then the anarchist handbook that's talking about the ideologies the different flavors of ideologies of anarchism”
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Stalin and Europe
Discussed“but another excellent book on on the topic and by the way thank you for recommending that to me”
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Shoninki
Discussed“that's a a quote from the book called a show ninky which is like a an actual legit ninja manual from like the 1500s or something like that”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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Communicating with Kids
Discussed“She's also the author of communicating with kids book published in 2015 based on her background training teachers and providing parental support so Stephanie I was reading your book today 2015 book communicating with children and I thought maybe I could playfully put you on the spot in my First Book 12 rules for life I my first popular book”
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Bible PerVERSIONS
Recommended“the freudians and the unions were very very good at delineating out the shadow side of the devouring mother The best book on that I think is the great mother by Eric Neumann which is an absolutely terrific book details out the symbolic representations of the devouring mother and the devouring mother interestingly isn't the woman who pushes the baby”
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The Great Mother
Recommended“the best book on that I think is the great mother by Eric Neumann which is an absolutely terrific book details out the symbolic representations of the devouring mother”
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Real Christianity
Discussed“He went away and studied He wrote a book you can still get a modern translation of it called real Christianity And the subtitle is the difference between what people think it is and what it really is”
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The madhouse effect
Critiqued“he has a whole book people can look it up called the madhouse effect about fossil fuels and climate”
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The New Left: the Anti-Industrial Revolution
Discussed“there's a book by um by Ein Rand called the the new left the anti-industrial Revolution and it was written at the time that this was happening”
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The end of nature
Discussed“one guy for example who was reviewing Bill mckibben's book the end of nature talks about you know like a flourishing bios sphere is more important me more important to me than one human or a billion of them”
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Unweaving the Rainbow
Discussed“I think Richard Dawkins has made a very good point here that unweaving the rainbow um finding out what a rainbow is made of has not made it less wonderful”
My First Million
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Catch Me If You Can
Discussed“Have Sean, have you ever seen the movie Catch Me If You Can? Of course. Great movie. And so, I read about that guy a lot, Frank Abagnale Jr.”
Dwarkesh Podcast
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All the Devils Are Here
Discussed“other than what a actually a former Goldman Sachs partner said this to me when I was working on all the devils are here and she said that Finance is supposed to be like the substrata of our world”
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Working in Public
Discussed“That's basically what spurred the writing of my book, because I was like, “Whatever's happening open source right now…” You start with this idea that democracy is great and we should have tons and tons of people participating.”
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The Economics of World War II
Discussed“I recently read a book The Economics of World War II which was comparing a bunch of countries and how their economies performed in World War II and one of the things that stood out about the U.S was that in a lot of terms of material consumption, the U.S didn't really look like a country going through a war.”
Behind the Bastards
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Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture
Recommended“There's this book that rules. It's called Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture. And it was basically a love letter written to me and you Garrison. Okay. Um [laughter] it was by Arthur Evans”
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Nakam
Discussed“the ghetto was basically nothing but ashes and Bones as this quote from the book nakam makes clear the visitors returned stunned intense from the blunt reality but speaking wide-scale Slaughter into gigantic round pits”
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The Child to Come
Discussed“and I'm going to quote again from the book to come when Jews returned in July 1944 to Kiev and hoped to reoccupy their houses they discovered Ukrainian squatters who refused to vacate”
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Defiance
Recommended“and if you would like to see a reasonably good movie about that starring Daniel Craig uh you can watch the movie Defiance which is about the bielski atriad”
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The fall of a sparrow
Discussed“this passage from a book about Abba called the fall of a sparrow describes him just as the war clouds began to gather in Europe”
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The Last Emperor of Mexico
Recommended“and I really do the book The Last Emperor of Mexico by Edward shock Ross good book incredibly readable I had I finished it in just a couple of days because I couldn't put the thing down really really well written book”
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Louis Napoleon and the Second Empire
Discussed“I'm gonna quote now from Louis Napoleon and the Second Empire a book by J.M Thompson and this is the biography that I did not like as much quote she was not in love with Lewis and he did not want to marry”
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The Works of Victor Hugo: The history of a crime. Napoleon the Little
Discussed“writer and politician Victor Hugo pinned a series of vitriolic attacks on Louis Napoleon one titled Napoleon Le Petit exhorting the French to look at this hog wallowing in his own slime on a lion's skin”
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The shadow emperor
Discussed“now is is gutless bone apart yeah um which is quite a nickname and I'm going to quote next from the book The Shadow Emperor it was a grim beginning for what was to prove a very Grim campaign under sweltering summer temperatures as dysentery typhus typhoid in a most deadly cholera epidemic ravaged the ranks”
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Less is More
Discussed“For one, I think that as Jason Hickle um advocates in his book, less is more, we absolutely need to put an end to the practice of planned obsolescence.”
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The Ecology of Freedom
Discussed“Um you is something that Marie Buchchin social ecologist talks a lot about um in his book the ecology of freedom and it's essentially the freedom of individuals or groups in a community to access and use but not destroy common resources to supply their needs.”
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Marx in the Anthropocene
Recommended“So there there's a Japanese Marxist named Kohi Saito who's been writing like a bunch of stuff recently who basically like he he he's been like probably the biggest voice of drowth in Japan and his book Capital anthroposine is finally getting translated into English pretty soon and so yeah check check that out when it comes out.”
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Sara
Recommended“one book that I would recommend anyone interested in the Kurdish movement um in revolutionary women's movements anywhere in the world in really any topic related to any of this to read is um the autobiography of Sakina Johnson's who was the only woman present for the founding of the PKK”
Timcast IRL
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Feeling Power
Discussed“so we get this book and read it, it's called feeling power, it's insane and I was like holy crap”
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The Peripheral
Discussed“have you guys watched the show the peripheral I have so there it's like there's they call the jackpot when all of the like all of the problems that everyone's talking about happen all at once basically over the span of a few years”
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Zeitgeist
Discussed“I've been so concerned about the liberal economic order since Zeitgeist since 2005 and six”
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Why Meadow Died
Recommended“Miss Martin music says how Meadow died is a must read for anyone even thinking of having children in any school as a teacher”
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Animorphs - The Android
Discussed“the references from animorph's right because I was talking about it and I mentioned that there's like brain slugs that go in your brain and take over your brain and'm like I forgot they're called what what a fun book series”
EconTalk
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Information Rules
Discussed“so anyway and that's only one mechanism so I go back to the what I I guess you call a classic book although you know something that comes out around 1999 or 2000 can you call it classic information Rules by Hal Varian and Carl Shapiro”
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I Never Thought of It That Way
Discussed“And our topic for today is I never thought of it that way, how to have fearlessly curious conversations in dangerously divided times.”
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Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei
Discussed“Mostly it's it's the uh homage to this book that I read a long long time ago called uh 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, which was who who was a poet in I think 800s 800s China, an ancient Chinese poet.”
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Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness
Recommended“And we've gone way far afield here. So, I just want to say, which I've enjoyed immensely, but I want to say that if you have any interest in these kind of topics, this book is is a beautiful book... So, I I would encourage anyone who is interested in these kind of questions to read Patrick's book because it”
Acquired
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Made in Japan
Recommended“made in Japan and made in America”
No Stupid Questions
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Where the Girls Are
Discussed“the University of Michigan Professor Susan J Douglas also explores the comparison in her 1994 book where the girls are growing up female with the mass media in a chapter called genies and witches”
Modern Wisdom
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The Everything Store
Discussed“the code name for what turns into Amazon inside the hedge fund was called the everything store like that is why the biography by Brad Stone is called the everything store”
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The Story of Philosophy
Discussed“this is great line from will Durant and will and Ariel Durant who've spent their entire life studying human history and in this book called lessons of History they say a great line where it's like in every age governments have been corrupt and men have been dishonest”
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Driven from within
Discussed“and I read uh not only did I read Michael's Auto autobiography driven from within but I read this like 700 Page biography which changed my [ __ ] life”
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Endurance; Shackleton's incredible voyage
Discussed“this is fantastic book written by Alfred Lansing called endurance right”
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Outsiders, The
Discussed“so it uh so interesting and I absolutely flip my [ __ ] because all the ideas that I thought were buffets a lot of them came from Singleton and to me that's inspiring because it's like I don't I can I can Thrive and be wildly successful and I don't need one single original idea of my own I”
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Beat the Dealer
Discussed“writes a book in the 1960s called beat the dealer sells millions of copies”
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Driven
Recommended“Let me go back to Edward and I want to tell you about this guy Larry Miller who wrote a book that I think everybody should read it's called driven an autobiography by Larry Miller right”
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Michael Jordan
Recommended“but I read this like 700 Page biography which changed my [ __ ] life and it's called uh Michael Jordan uh the life I think by Roland Lazenby”
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Almanac and Weather Forecaster
Recommended“I give uh Eric jorgensen's the almanac and of all a lot away a lot”
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Frames of Reference
Recommended“I give uh Eric jorgensen's the almanac and of all a lot away a lot”
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Endurance
Recommended“That is a cover of Ernest Shackleton this is fantastic book written by Alfred Lansing called endurance right”
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The Outsiders
Recommended“so then you go and you read there's not a lot of material on second thing but I read everything I could find and I didn't uh a podcast on this book called The Outsiders which is one of the very few books that profiles what what made Singleton”
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Tycoon's War
Recommended“He literally did there's this great book called tycoon's War and it's about this guy I think his name's William Walker”
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Accidental Empires
Recommended“so one of the craziest books I ever read um was this book called hard drive uh Bill Gates in the building of the Microsoft Empire right”
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Against the Odds
Recommended“so the number one book recommendation I have is James Dyson has two autobiographies right”
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The River of Doubt
Recommended“um there's a fantastic book called The River of Doubt which is a biography on Teddy Roosevelt but it it focuses on him his life after he lost the last presidential election”
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Estee
Recommended“Estee Lauder wrote one of the best autobiographies that you can ever find a complete obsessive her I'm using her Playbook a lot in the way I'm building Founders and like she's just obsessed over customers did things that did not scale she writes the book she dies the PO the company is still a private family company and now”
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Becoming Steve Jobs
Recommended“it's called becoming Steve Jobs the evolution of a reckless upstart to a Visionary leader”
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Hackers and Painters
Recommended“in fact the collection of his essays is you can buy the book it's called hackers and Painters and he's like at the very top levels it's you there's no like painting by numbers”
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A Man for All Markets
Recommended“it's called a man for all markets um the saint celeb wrote the forward and you can actually read the forward for free on nasim's website which is fantastic”
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Anxious
Discussed“even Joseph Ledoux who's a you know a Pioneer in Neuroscience hardcore Neuroscience he wrote this book called anxious that I love that I've read five times and still don't understand”
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Archives of Sexual Behavior
Discussed“and then uh I guess about 15 years ago or so I was asked to review a book on the topic um and I thought for it for a journal for archives of sexual behavior and I thought okay a great chance for me to get into the literature a little bit read a book that reviews the literature”
The Realignment
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The Globalization Myth
Discussed“I'm speaking with Shannon K O'Neill she's the author of The globalization myth why regions matter and how we can think of regionalization as the most important economic Trend over the next decade”
This Week in Startups
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We Are the Nerds
Recommended“but I read the book uh we are the Nerds which was I heard it like two or three weeks ago like pretty recently and it's like the history of Reddit super interesting”
ChooseFI
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Trillions
Recommended“so there was a fabulous book called trillions that charts the course of index funds their exception where they came from”
