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Books podcasts were talking about in January 2023
Podcast discussions in January 2023 spanned classic literature, political strategy, and health. On Stuff They Don't Want You To Know, the host mentioned reading Victor Hugo's classic work associated with 'Les Misérables' and referenced an online comic titled 'The Machine' from Existential Comics while discussing teleportation thought experiments. Political themes surfaced on The Daily Stoic, where James Pogue discussed his book 'Conspiracy' and the guest referenced Curtis Yarvin's 'Good Old Boys' as a detailed blueprint regarding the potential rise of an American dictator. Political figures also drew attention on Pod Save America, where the hosts discussed Ron DeSantis's upcoming book 'The Courage to Be Free'. Health and hormone optimization were highlighted on Huberman Lab, with Andrew Huberman recommending Sara Gottfried's books 'Women, Food, and Hormones' and 'The Hormone Cure'. Finally, on The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett, host Steven Bartlett spoke about his own journal while discussing self-reflection and personal value.
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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The Works of Victor Hugo: The history of a crime. Napoleon the Little
Discussed“Have you seen Les Mis I mean come on I actually read the book little gevrosh I mean I've actually never seen the show but I have listened to that soundtrack eight years”
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The Machine
Discussed“Did you guys ever uh read the comic that's available online I think through existential Comics it was called the machine and it was all a thought experiment about this very thing with a teleportation machine with every time you teleport you die and another copy is created”
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The International Jew
Discussed“you literally owned the Dearborn independent and personally published anti-semitic articles You bound the Articles into volumes called the international Jew”
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An Essay on the Principle of Population
Discussed“we fast forward a few centuries we got to introduce uh one of the most infamous guys in this conversation Thomas Malthus in 1798 he writes this thing he calls an essay on the principle of population”
Speaker The Overpopulation Conspiracy | STUFF THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW 2023-01-11 Listen at 12:33 -
Missing 411
Discussed“and David Pilates is an expert in this he wrote a book called missing 4-1-1 that was made into a documentary”
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Prescription Games
Discussed“and I would just I want to give this quote Ben that you found from what is this Jeffrey Robinson's book uh book title if you want to look it up is prescription games money ego and power inside the global pharmaceutical industry”
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Elon Musk
Discussed“uh Marshall brain uh founder of how stuff works the author of The ongoing serialized work imagining Elon Musk million person Mars colony you can check it out today at marshallbrain.com and that's the end of this classic episode”
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How "God" Works
Discussed“I do want to mention as we close that this is only the latest in a long line of books that you have written Marshall including how God works the engineering book of multiple house stuff works books mana mana uh teenager's Guide to the real world”
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The Teenager's Guide to the Real World
Discussed“I do want to mention as we close that this is only the latest in a long line of books that you have written Marshall including how God works the engineering book of multiple house stuff works books mana mana uh teenager's Guide to the real world”
The Daily Stoic
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Chosen Country
Discussed“This reminded me of my time in the Teal world around 2016-2017 while writing my book 'Conspiracy,' which explains much of what’s happening, this conspiracy element.”
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The New Sultan
Discussed“So like I mean, I’ve said this many times, so sorry to repeat it, but like people should listen to Curtis's latest episode on Good Old Boys; like it's not a joke; like it's like a blueprint for like how we get an American dictator, and there’s like a pretty detailed plan and description, but you listen to it and”
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Chuck Klosterman IV
Discussed“You and I talked about Chuck Klosterman, and I never—and I interviewed him—but he never talked about this in the book, I don't think.”
Pod Save America
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The Courage to Be Free
Discussed“Do you guys know that we talked about what desantis's book that's coming out I think in February is called the oh the courage to the courage to be female”
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They Called Us "Lucky"
Discussed“I've been reading his book um guygo's book because I'm a do you read I'm a DC Insider I didn't say I finished this book I've been reading his book because I'm uh embarrassed incredibly well-sourced DC Insider who knew this announcement was coming uh like everybody else in the country He's an incredible Story I mean he grew up”
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Mass Incarceration Nation
Discussed“Let's start here with NBC News not normally an offender in our take pieces here uh this is a piece from Jeffrey Bellen who wrote a book about mass incarceration the headline is the road to end mass incarceration could begin with Mercy for some January 6 rioters This piece argues that Biden should pardon thousands of prisoners including some”
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The Noom Mindset
Discussed“check out noom's first ever book the new mindset a deep dive into the psychology of behavior change available to buy now wherever books are sold”
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Toni Morrison's Beloved
Discussed“They will force you to read beloved”
Huberman Lab
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Women, Food, And Hormones
Discussed“The two books I'd like to highlight, for which we have provided links in the show notes, are 'Women, Food, and Hormones' and 'The Hormone Cure.'”
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The Hormone Cure
Discussed“The two books I'd like to highlight, for which we have provided links in the show notes, are 'Women, Food, and Hormones' and 'The Hormone Cure.'”
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The Creative Act
Discussed“We also spent some time talking about Rick's new book, which is all about creativity and ways to access creativity. The title of the book is The Creative Act: A Way of Being, by Rick Rubin.”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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The Diary of a CEO
Discussed“I don't believe that value comes from a journal or a conversation with yourself in a mirror please buy the diary and I love Journal”
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8 Rules of Love
Discussed“thank you for writing a great Book on a topic Your book is so good that I've decided not to write one on this topic I think we talked about this in La when we went for lunch like it's such a great book and it's so hard to write interesting unique things on a topic like love which has”
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The Optimism Bias
Discussed“on the back of your book here the optimism biased it says”
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Identically Different
Discussed“yes I I was I was just finishing up the very last bits of the previous book identically different which is about why Twins were different”
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Spoon-Fed
Discussed“So when I was reading about your view on calorie counting in your book spoon fed it was I screenshotted it this morning and sent it to him”
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Food for Life
Discussed“and I think this is just you know it's a great lesson moving away from our reductionism we always like to think of you know one food is one vitamin or one chemical and that's an easy way to think about it we can't comprehend they've got a thousand different ingredients so decaf coffee but yeah well you've got green”
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The Diet Myth
Discussed“Zoe is a a personalized nutrition company that I founded nearly six years ago with uh to my co-founders who came to one of my uh talks I was talking about the diet myth and the microbiome and they came up to me and said you know we think what you're doing is really exciting”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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The prince
Discussed“He did something very clever; he went into the books of Nicolo Machiavelli, who was an advisor to politicians way back when, and he took the statements, administered them to undergraduate students, and simply asked them how much they agreed with these statements.”
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Wicked Thoughts
Discussed“I read a book titled 'Wicked Thoughts,' a fascinating read by Google engineers who analyzed pornography use between men and women with billions of searches.”
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Wind in My Hair
Discussed“In 2018, she released a book, 'The Wind in My Hair,' which criticized the Iranian government's depiction and oppressive treatment of women.”
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Johann Gutenberg and his Bible
Discussed“Here we have a Gutenberg Bible printed on the press of Johan Gutenberg.”
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Computational physics
Discussed“He's the author of the classic 1985 textbook 'Computational Physics' and has published 200 peer-reviewed papers in the fields of physics, astrophysics, scientific computation, energy technology and policy, and climate science.”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Discussed“It was much more One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.”
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THE 5 SECOND RULE
Discussed“Mel is a New York Times bestselling author and self-publishing phenom, and her work includes "The High Five Habit," "The 5 Second Rule," and "The Mel Robbins Podcast," which is the one that you have to subscribe to.”
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The Decision
Discussed“Kevin is a New York Times best-selling author twice over, and his first Audible original, The Decision, was nominated for an Audi Award for best original audiobook.”
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Young Forever
Discussed“He's also an advisor and co-host on many shows, and today we're discussing my new book, Young Forever: The Secrets to Living Your Longest, Healthiest Life.”
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Food Fix
Discussed“I talked about this in my last book, Food Fix; in prisons, if they give prisoners healthy food, violent crime goes down by 56%.”
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Young Forever
Discussed“The book is titled 'Young Forever' by Mark Hyman, detailing how to live the longest, healthiest life with a step-by-step program to reverse diseases, alleviate pain, and rejuvenate energy.”
No Stupid Questions
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How the Mind Works
Discussed“Pinker wrote a book about it; I think he did a really good job summarizing it.”
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Discussed“Well, the Theory of Moral Sentiments...”
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Hot Seat
Discussed“and Jeff emmel has written a book about this moment where he was getting ready to take over the CEO job from Jack Welch and they're in London where there's this legendary British executive they're having dinner with”
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The Prince
Discussed“Nicolo Machiavelli was an Italian Renaissance diplomat who was infamous for his 1513 book, The Prince, a treatise on how to acquire power and keep it.”
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Discourses on Livy
Discussed“Some scholars have asserted that Machiavelli himself was not very Machiavellian; his later works, Discourses on Livy and The Art of War, seem to run counter to the advice given in The Prince.”
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Art of War
Discussed“Some scholars have asserted that Machiavelli himself was not very Machiavellian; his later works, Discourses on Livy and The Art of War, seem to run counter to the advice given in The Prince.”
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Think Like a Freak (Republish)
Discussed“It reminds me of something that Steve Levitt and I wrote about in one of our Freakonomics books, Think Like a Freak, and it was about this charitable organization called Smile Train. Are you familiar with Smile Train?”
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The Elements of Style
Discussed“And then it's like the Strunk and White of scientific writing.”
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Legacies of the Turf
Discussed“I'm reading a little bit from a book by Allison Colin, Still Fair Race, called 'How Capitalism Forms Our Lives.'”
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Thinking and Deciding
Discussed“The full article is titled 'How to Write a Research Report in Psychology.'”
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Who Was E. B. White?
Discussed“If you want to write more than one book in your entire life, you need to learn how to do the work. E.B. White, who I know you like, I love E.B. White.”
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Turbulent Souls:
Discussed“You can learn more about her life as an accomplished ballerina, self-taught farmer, mother of eight, and devout Catholic convert in Stephen's 1998 memoir, Turbulent Souls, which was later republished under a new title, Choosing My Religion.”
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Choosing My Religion
Discussed“You can learn more about her life as an accomplished ballerina, self-taught farmer, mother of eight, and devout Catholic convert in Stephen's 1998 memoir, Turbulent Souls, which was later republished under a new title, Choosing My Religion.”
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Practical Wisdom
Discussed“so I did come across this book I'm not sure if you're familiar with it but I'd like to tell you about it a little bit maybe this would prove useful for Yvonne as well it's written by two authors one of whom I know you know Barry Schwartz who's a psychologist at Swarthmore and Kenneth sharp who's a political”
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Dale Carnegie for Children (Abridged and adapted)
Discussed“and maybe to snob in you would feel better reading meditations or reading the essays of Michelle de montane then reading Dale Carnegie”
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The Best of Red Smith
Discussed“and then I think about biographies I've read that really changed the shape of my life especially my life as a writer biographies of red Smith and ring lardner and Hemingway is a kind of cautionary tale”
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Ring Lardner
Discussed“and then I think about biographies I've read that really changed the shape of my life especially my life as a writer biographies of red Smith and ring lardner and Hemingway is a kind of cautionary tale”
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My Brother, Ernest Hemingway
Discussed“and then I think about biographies I've read that really changed the shape of my life especially my life as a writer biographies of red Smith and ring lardner and Hemingway is a kind of cautionary tale”
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Feeling Good
Discussed“if you're feeling depressed or anxious and you don't have a cognitive behavioral therapist that you can go to one-on-one you could buy Feeling Good by David Burns”
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The French Revolution
Discussed“I was reading a lot of Carlisle and about him for something I was writing once long ago and I came across the story of how Carlisle had written a book about the French Revolution called the French Revolution”
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The Little Engine That Could
Discussed“look if you think about children's books these little Parables right like The Little Engine That Could”
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Frog and Toad Treasury
Discussed“or my favorite books were Frog and Toad and they are always something with a message”
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Autumn with Frog and Toad
Discussed“or my favorite books were Frog and Toad and they are always something with a message”
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Song of Myself
Discussed“and maybe it was from Reading Whitman you know do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. I am large I contain multitudes because I think that's what it is to be a human is to exercise some different version of yourself in these different circumstances”
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Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
Discussed“John Wooden the UCLA basketball coach I remember reading it in his book they all said some version of the true test of a person's character is what you do when no one is watching”
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A Treatise of Human Nature
Discussed“and this dates back to David Hume the Scottish philosopher This is from treaties of human nature he wrote this about our different elements I'm a venture to a firm of the rest of mankind that they are nothing but a bundle of different perceptions which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity and are in Perpetual flux and movement”
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The Checklist Manifesto
Discussed“I've been thinking about checklists actually long before Chris Shipman sent us that question I read Atul gawande's checklist Manifesto”
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The Tale of Johnny Town-mouse
Discussed“but many listeners will be familiar with the version of the story from 1918 the tale of Johnny Town Mouse written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter the English natural scientist who famously authored The Tale of Peter Rabbit”
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Ring
Discussed“so like there's a biography of ring lardner a writer that I loved that I bought it was a biography by Jonathan Yardley”
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When Memory Comes
Discussed“but he was actually thinking about Israeli historian Saul friedlander's 1979 Holocaust Memoir when memory comes”
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The Golem
Discussed“friedlander was actually referencing a book from his childhood the Austrian novelist Gustav myrink's retelling of the Jewish legend of Golem”
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Discussed“And then she continues, or will my almost daily re-watching of Friends and rereading of Harry Potter hinder my ability to form 'normal' relationships in the long run?”
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Freakonomics
Discussed“I think they were at a swimming pool and everybody's jumping around having fun, and she's sitting by the pool reading Freakonomics. Oh my gosh, that's so cool, Stephen!”
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A Calendar of Wisdom
Discussed“You know, I've been thinking about this recently for two reasons: one is I've been reading this book by Tolstoy called 'A Calendar of Days,' and it's kind of like this daily devotional.”
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The Interpretation of Dreams
Discussed“Of course, in his classic work, The Interpretation of Dreams, which he wrote just at the dawn of the 20th century. For Freud, dreams were a matter of wish fulfillment. This is a way that we play out our unconscious impulses.”
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Confessions of a Hero-Worshiper
Discussed“And I ended up writing a book about him; it was called Confessions of a Hero Worshiper, and it was about the notion of heroes. So I got to hang out with him, talk about this notion; well, what do you make of all this, Stephen? Did we answer this question about dreams and what they're good for?”
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The Genetic Lottery
Discussed“There's a book out now; I really recommend it.”
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The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4
Discussed“I'm reading here from a piece called 'Breaking Out of the Drama Triangle' by Sherry Steins. So I'm thinking, okay, this is going to be really helpful.”
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Economic Empowerment Of Women In The Islamic World: Theory And Practice
Discussed“So there's a book by Janet Gallus and Bruno Frey; it's called Honors versus Money: The Economics of Awards. Obviously, there are awards in all these different parts of society: the state, arts and media, sports, religion—you get awards for volunteering and so on.”
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Um. . .
Discussed“I know there's a linguist named Michael erard who wrote a book called um slips stumbles and verbal blunders and what they mean and he makes the interesting note that here I'll read a pit with a few exceptions people didn't really start talking about um or complaining about it until the Advent of voice recording”
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Type A Behavior: Its Diagnosis and Treatment
Discussed“the theory was based on years of research showing that people who had certain personality traits which they grouped as type A like impatience and irritability were significantly more prone to heart attacks than those with more relaxed go with the flow type B personality traits in 1974 they published a book about their findings called type a behavior and”
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Treating Type A Behavior and Your Heart
Discussed“the theory was based on years of research showing that people who had certain personality traits which they grouped as type A like impatience and irritability were significantly more prone to heart attacks than those with more relaxed go with the flow type B personality traits in 1974 they published a book about their findings called type a behavior and”
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Pygmalion
Discussed“in the first half of the episode Angela briefly describes Pygmalion a 1912 play written by George Bernard Shaw that was adapted into the Tony award-winning musical my fair lady and a major Motion Picture starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison”
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The World Acting Drama. Pygmalion and Galatea. An Original Mythological Comedy, in Three Acts
Discussed“English dramatist WS Gilbert wrote the play Pygmalion in galatea that was first performed in 1871 and a musical burlesque parody of the story premiered at London's gaiety theater in 1883.”
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Beginners
Discussed“I have been reading a book that you might love or you might hate and I would like to find out which one... The author is Tom Vanderbilt the book is called beginners The joy and transformative power of lifelong learning”
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An Essay on Criticism
Discussed“the most famous version of this idea at least as far as I know comes from the British writer and satiris Alexander Pope who in his essay on criticism wrote a little learning is a dangerous thing drink deep or taste not the purion spring there shallow drafts intoxicate the brain and drinking largely sobers us again”
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Winners Take All
Discussed“I actually read this book winners take all which was a critique of this kind of billionaire philanthropy”
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Historical Models of Christian Missions
Discussed“There's a similar-ish book by Robert Reese who is a Stanford political scientist called just giving why philanthropy is failing democracy and how we can do better”
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Who Needs a Missionary?
Discussed“There's a similar-ish book by Robert Reese who is a Stanford political scientist called just giving why philanthropy is failing democracy and how we can do better”
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SuperFreakonomics LP
Discussed“Although drunk walking, we actually argued in Super Freakonomics, is more dangerous per mile than drunk driving, but that's a different story. Maybe for the person who's drunk, but maybe not for other people.”
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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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On Writing
Discussed“In fact, I may be misremembering this, but I think I wrote a piece once about a young guy who was driving on a rural road in Maine and hit Stephen King with his car and almost killed Stephen King. I've read Stephen King's side of it in the book 'On Writing'. Yeah, exactly!”
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Candide
Discussed“You know, when I was in high school, I read 'Candide'. Did you read 'Candide' by Voltaire? Let us go cultivate our garden.”
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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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Midlife
Discussed“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.”
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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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Forgery and Counter-forgery
Discussed“I can't even remember, I was like incremental intelligence theory, there was some multi-syllabic, multi-word phrase and I believe she had to come up with some terminology when she was writing her first, last, only, at least for now, popular book for a lay audience, and you know, implicit theories of intelligence and you know, incremental versus whatever, these were”
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Angela's Ashes
Discussed“I can think of one book that I loved and saw the film, and I didn't hate it, and that was Angela's Ashes, which I thought was a pretty good film. I did not know that was a film.”
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
Discussed“But then I think of another book that I loved, Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe. I love that book too, a great novel. Then the movie came out, and I can't remember that movie!”
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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information PAPERBACK
Discussed“Stephen was perhaps thinking of 'chart junk', a term that Tufte coined in his 1983 book, 'The Visual Display of Quantitative Information'. Tufte writes, 'The interior decoration of graphics generates a lot of ink that does not tell the viewer anything new.'”
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Don Quixote
Discussed“One of the earliest written versions of the phrase appears in Thomas Shelton's 1620 translation of Don Quixote, during a time when most pots and kettles were made from cast iron, which blackened when placed over a flame.”
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Winter Notes on Summer Impressions
Discussed“Wegner was directly inspired by a moment from Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 'Winter Notes on Summer Impressions,' one of his non-fiction pieces. Dostoevsky writes, 'Try to pose for yourself this task, not to think of a polar bear, and you will see that the cursed thing will come to mind every minute.' Wegner was intrigued by this idea, prompting him”
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Parent Nation
Discussed“Yes I was talking to Dana Suskin who we both know she is a pediatric surgeon and she wrote this book called Parent Nation it's about what we have to do as a society to take care of all children and it's very much about the kids who are overlooked the kids who don't have advantages and Dana wrote a”
Speaker What’s So Bad About Nepotism? | No Stupid Questions | Episode 102 2023-01-12 Listen at 10:06 -
Thirty Million Words
Discussed“Yes I was talking to Dana Suskin who we both know she is a pediatric surgeon and she wrote this book called Parent Nation it's about what we have to do as a society to take care of all children and it's very much about the kids who are overlooked the kids who don't have advantages and Dana wrote a”
Speaker What’s So Bad About Nepotism? | No Stupid Questions | Episode 102 2023-01-12 Listen at 10:06 -
DSM-5® Guidebook
Discussed“But I think a very good starting place would be the DSM. You've heard of this, right?”
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Hard to Break
Discussed“But one that I read again last week was by Russ Poldrack, he said Stanford, and he's a neuroscientist, and his book is called Hard to Break, Why Our Brains Make Habits Stick. I'm going to read for you his definition of addiction.”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Pale Blue Dot
Discussed“To support this podcast, please check out our sponsors in the description, and now let me leave you with some words from Carl Sagan: 'Perhaps the aliens are here but are hiding because of some galactic ethic of non-interference with emerging civilizations.'”
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Wonderful Life the Burgess
Discussed“One of my favorite books of all time is by Stephen J. Gould. If you've never read that book, it kind of blows your mind. It's about the Cambrian explosion of life.”
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Autobiografía Malcolm X
Discussed“I think reading his autobiography is extremely important for anyone that wants to understand him. You should read his own words.”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I Am Revealed
Discussed“my next guest spent 15 years as a covert CIA agent specializing in counter-terror and counter narcotic operations he now runs his own company Portman Square group and is the author of a new book company rules or everything I know about business I learned from the CIA like that Mike Baker joins me now”
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End of Discussion
Discussed“snuck some books back there about end of discussion about how the left is shutting down it's a great book available on Amazon Guy Benson 2015 memory serves That's correct”
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Spare
Discussed“and you know Harry in his book he referred he he talks very briefly about bullying”
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Finding Freedom
Discussed“including saying oh yeah sorry um yeah I forgot about that you know I forgot one of the tabloids in Britain um did a fantastic front page uh inspired by some children's books that were popular here a few years a few years back and it was called Little Miss forgetful that's a kindness to suggest it actually was forgetfulness”
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Toplumsal Cinsiyetin Sonu
Discussed“Don't forget the name of her book is the end of gender well worth your time”
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Supreme Disorder
Discussed“here to discuss it all is Ilya Shapiro director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute he's also the author of supreme disorder judicial nominations and the politics of America's highest court”
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Cato Supreme Court Review, 2009-2010
Discussed“here to discuss it all is Ilya Shapiro director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute he's also the author of supreme disorder judicial nominations and the politics of America's highest court”
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A Journey to the Center of the Mind
Discussed“my next guest is James R Fitzgerald he is a retired FBI criminal profiler who was involved in high profile cases like the search for it the Unabomber and the DC sniper shootings he's also the author of the book A Journey to the Center of the Mind”
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The Lord's invitation to his table, by the author of 'Your place in church is empty'.
Discussed“you have an interesting chapter on one of the books talking about how there may be a gender gap when it comes to pay in America”
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Brew Your Own Big Book of Homebrewing, Updated Edition
Discussed“and you talk about some of this in your book”
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My heavenly service for today, by the author of 'Miss Marston's girls and their confirmation'.
Discussed“we weren't doing that as I showed my book girls on the edge”
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Annual Reports of the School Committee and of the Superintendent of Schools of the City of Lewiston, for the Year Ending ...
Discussed“you know the publisher has asked me to write a new edition of the collapse of parenting which I'm working on now and there's going to be a new chapter on gender”
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Body Image
Discussed“this reminds me of the thing that that happened in American Girl doll which I did not realize is now owned by Mattel I mean we're all moms we all own toys by Mattel that's like where you go for toys and they're the ones who are obviously okay with this trans book being pushed on girls at American Girl”
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Things That Matter
Discussed“um you can still get his book things that matter uh which is a collection of his best columns and it's so well worth your your time and the read”
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Justice for All
Discussed“he's host of Greg Kelly reports on Newsmax and he's author of the new book Justice for All how the left is wrong about law enforcement”
Timcast IRL
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Report on Horn Island and Prince of Wales Island Dam Sites Yield and Flood Analyses
Discussed“But when are you releasing The cookbook 101 ways to make eggs by Tim Poole”
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Chilton's Auto Repair Manual, 1954-1963
Discussed“You can look at sex education like a Chilton's book for like a a car right Sexual education is how it works These are the body parts etc etc”
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Stakeholder Capitalism
Discussed“the vaticans pushing World economic foreign principles and inclusive capitalism which is you know to Klaus has another book inclusive capitalism”
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A Brief History of the Future
Discussed“I mean the Kissinger France Jacques out to Lee I brought his book”
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Behind the Angel of History
Discussed“there's a history of DARPA attacks that Annie Jacobson wrote uh it's a really good book”
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The Scientist; a Metaphysical Autobiography
Discussed“So this one is you may have heard of John C Lilly right He's the dolphin dude”
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Between Two Ages
Discussed“between two ages yeah and then the book The subtitle is the best part because it's America's role in technocratic Era”
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Wall Street and the Wilds
Discussed“even Brzezinski in between two ages cites Anthony Sutton who's Anthony Sutton's famous Professor wrote the book uh Wall Street in the bolshik revolution and Hitler”
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Hitler’s Winter
Discussed“even Brzezinski in between two ages cites Anthony Sutton who's Anthony Sutton's famous Professor wrote the book uh Wall Street in the bolshik revolution and Hitler”
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One Second After
Discussed“you should read or listen to the book one second after it's about an EMP Global attack”
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Blackout
Discussed“you want to talk about real slavery slaves I wrote this in my book Oh another free pitch for myself Blackout um I wrote this in my book”
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Not My Idea
Discussed“what was that book it was called your mother you want to look that one up yeah again Oscar nomani brings this book to us and it shows a whiteness contract with a devil tail and a hand reaching out and it says sign the contract”
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The Creature from Jekyll Island
Discussed“before the Federal Reserve was enacted before there was the creature from Jekyll Island before there was this larger kind of income tax levied against everyone else”
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Allen Carr's Easy Way to Quit Smoking Without Willpower - Includes Quit Vaping
Discussed“I just want to recommend for people um there's a great book uh the easy way to quit smoking I tried everything to quit smoking Nothing worked But I read that book and it actually helped me”
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A Child Called It
Discussed“Tim's earlier segment on genderqueer reminded me heavily of a child called it poor kid was so starved he ate a used diaper”
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An Analysis of the Kinsey Reports on Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male and Female. Edited by D.P. Geddes. [Essays by Various Authors.].
Discussed“I just learned about this Kinsey guy this uh learned about a little while ago this sex doctor from the 1930s 40s 50s and Hugh Hefner was his student yeah and they were overtly attempting to sexualize college kids like they would go to college campus we are going to sexualize society So I guess we're still seeing this yeah”
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Occupy
Discussed“the general Union which you're not going to read about in the Occupy books because they will lie and claim it never happened were regular people sleeping intense living in the park”
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Bibliography [of Works By] John Money, Ph. D. and Members the Psychohormonal Research Unit, Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Dept. of Pediatrics, The John Hopkins University School of Medicine
Discussed“Ian you have so much more to unfold with Kinsey and look into John money they're Heroes to them and out sex ed is uh and our sex that is based off of it yeah John money's crazy yeah you're gonna love that yeah for real I worked with a guy named John money in La it's so funny really”
Monday Morning Podcast
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Strangers on a Bridge
Discussed“But I have a great trilogy I've written called Who's Who in World War II, Who's Who in the Civil War, and Who's Who in Russian history. Right now, I'm on a binge on Russian history.”
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The American Presidency
Discussed“I wrote a JFK history book. I wrote a history of every presidency, not every president, every presidency.”
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Mike Donovan's History of the Civil War
Discussed“So great to see you, the stand-up comedy book, Mike Donovan, he also has, uh, what is it, uh, World War II, who's who in World War II, who's who in the Civil War, and who's who in Russian history.”
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Discussed“Oh, here is an old man moment I had, when I was a kid they had a submarine ride at Disney World— at least it was called 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and it was a, I think a successful movie from the 1950s, I believe, the ride was, and they have the same ride!”
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I'm Fine...And Other Lies
Discussed“And not even in vague locations, vague locations, yeah, vague locations and body parts, that's gonna be my name in my memoir.”
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The Western Films of Robert Mitchum
Discussed“I think there were ebbs and flows of it, yeah, but he, Peter Bogdanovich wrote this book about conversations he had with them, is it called the bearded [expletive] or some well story?”
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Seabiscuit
Discussed“Paul Verzi is also the guy who told me Seabiscuit was an unbelievable athlete! A damn horse! And you know why he said that?”
Stuff You Should Know
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Child Care and the Growth of Love
Discussed“and he came out with a book called child care and the growth of love It was basically I know it's a great title They'll love it but it was based on the work and the research that he did for the World Health Organization but he he very wisely I get the impression wrote it for a popular audience”
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The Book of Household Management
Discussed“so there was another cookbook in Victorian England called The Book of household management by Isabella Beaton yeah I think everyone referred to her as Mrs Beaton Probably and she um came up with a couple good ones a good couple good contributions One is the toast sandwich”
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A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates - from their first rise and settlement in the Island of Providence to the present year
Discussed“one very notable one uh the long title is a general history of the robberies and murders of the most notorious pirates with a y uh and or that is generally known a general history of the Pirates”
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History and Genealogy of One Line of Descent from Captain Edward Johnson, Together with His English Ancestry, 1500-1914
Discussed“and and Bonnie though she became more obscure according to the history Captain Johnson's history um she was let go at some point and we don't know where she went”
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Sensation and Perception
Discussed“and by the way I want to give a shout out Rachel Hertz wrote a chapter for the book neurobiology of sensation and reward which is a gas in general”
Behind the Bastards
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Raw Dog
Discussed“Okay, I wanna plug two books that are available for pre-order right now. The first of which is Jamie Loftus's book about hot dogs, called Raw Dog, and it's available for pre-order. Go to her social media for all that info.”
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The Boy Crisis
Discussed“I think Warren Farrell wrote a book called The Boy crisis told me yesterday when I was talking to them every single high school shooter was fatherless”
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Solitary Sex
Discussed“according to Thomas lacquer's 2003 book solitary sex a cultural history of masturbation masturbation as we know it was invented in 1713.”
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The Legend of Candy Claws
Discussed“This is why Voltaire in [ __ ] candy I brought up Pang loss like he is mocking this idea that like the the pangos is this like philosopher guy who's saying like this is the best of all possible worlds”
SmartLess
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Surrender
Discussed“How is the experience of writing this book and kind of bearing it at all in a way; it's called surrender, so did it feel like that?”
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Discussed“Growing up, I was amazed by moving cameras, especially in Lewis Milestone's work, like in All Quiet on the Western Front or Pork Chop Hill. Those amazing shots with the camera moving to climb a hill with Gregory Peck, Woody Strode, and Robert Blake stuck with me!”
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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Discussed“No, Will was in my directorial debut, which was an adaptation of a David Foster Wallace book called Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and Will was probably starring, one of the idiots probably headlining, name above title.”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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Brainiac
Discussed“Yeah, there seems to be, and I don't think I knew this until I wrote Brainiac and interviewed dozens of people like this, that there is such a type that just seems to be like this from the womb.”
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Maphead
Discussed“I wrote a book called Maphead about people with weird geographic quirks and hobbies, and one thing I found while writing the book is that I see the world through a very geographic lens that many people do not share, but other people with weird geography fixations do.”
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More guns, less crime
Discussed“Lott ended up writing a book called More Guns, Less Crime; it was quite a big seller and he received a lot of praise in certain circles for it. He became a sort of hero of the NRA crowd.”
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Business Efficiency For Dummies
Discussed“At the time, if you Googled 'business efficiency consultant,' I was like the only search result, which led to me being offered to write 'Business Efficiency for Dummies.'”
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The evolution of cooperation
Discussed“So from a game theory perspective, I was always a fan of Robert Axelrod's work around the evolution of cooperation. He was a political scientist.”
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Triumph of the City
Discussed“He's the author of the best-selling book, Triumph of the City, and now he's back with a new book co-authored with David Cutler called Survival of the City.”
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Survival of the City
Discussed“So back in 2008, Ed, you wrote a book called Triumph of the City, and now, 13 years later, you've got a new book called Survival of the City.”
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The undercover economist
Discussed“His first book, The Undercover Economist, came out over 15 years ago, and it's still the first book I recommend to anyone who asks me for advice about what to read.”
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Pachinko
Discussed“Well, of late, one of the novels that I'm very proud of is Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, which I assure you many people you know have read and loved.”
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The Yellow House
Discussed“This year at the National Book Awards, I was very excited because I had to duck and run between tables because Sarah Broom, who wrote the memoir The Yellow House, was up for a National Book Award as was my other client, Julia Phillips, who wrote Disappearing Earth, which she was up for fiction.”
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Disappearing Earth
Discussed“This year at the National Book Awards, I was very excited because I had to duck and run between tables because Sarah Broom, who wrote the memoir The Yellow House, was up for a National Book Award as was my other client, Julia Phillips, who wrote Disappearing Earth, which she was up for fiction.”
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She Said
Discussed“I think that for anybody who has daughters, you should make them read 'She Said,' which is Watergate for girls; it's the New York Times reporters writing about breaking the Harvey Weinstein story and the reluctance of women to come forward.”
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Scarcity
Discussed“In this week's episode, I pick up in the middle of our conversation, where I tell Sendhil about my first reaction to hearing that he had written a book entitled Scarcity.”
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Memory Superpowers!
Discussed“I want to learn how to remember things better, and I feel incredibly lucky to have the chance to sit down with four-time USA Memory Tournament champion Nelson Dellis, who has authored the books Memory Superpowers and Remember It.”
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Sleights of mind
Discussed“There were, I don't know, 250 kids in this hall, and they had all been assigned to read a book called 'Slight of Mind,' which is a book on the neuroscience of magic. I did my show, and afterwards they were asking great questions, and one after the next, I realized we don't know the answers to these questions.”
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Quest for the tree kangaroo
Discussed“I had committed to do two books; one was Quest for the Tree Kangaroo, and the other was my memoir, The Good Pig, that I wrote to honor Christopher Hogwood.”
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Economic Gangsters
Discussed“If you enjoyed what you heard from Ted Miguel today, check out his book titled "Economic Gangsters," which he co-authored with another one of my favorite economists, Ray Fisman.”
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Finding the Mother Tree
Discussed“If you want to learn more about how Suzanne Simard took on the flawed conventional wisdom of forestry, check out her fascinating book entitled Finding the Mother Tree.”
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The Difference
Discussed“There's an old book called 'The Difference,' which explores what makes the best teams for judgment. It shows that teams comprised of people with different views outperform teams of experts.”
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Life Undercover
Discussed“Amaryllis Fox spent nearly a decade working as a CIA operative, recounting her experiences in the bestselling book, Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA.”
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Range
Discussed“That's Sal Khan, the founder of the hugely popular education non-profit Khan Academy. Here's David Epstein, the author of Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World.”
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Imaginable
Discussed“She's also the author of three books on the topic, the most recent of which is called 'Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything,' even things that seem impossible today.”
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Alone Together
Discussed“You know, Sherry Turkle went and wrote a book about that idea, 'Alone Together.' Maybe you should write 'Alone Alone.'”
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Woke Racism
Discussed“After this short break, they’ll return to talk about John's book 'Woke Racism.' So our listener, I know, wrote us an email about the high gas prices we’re currently seeing as a result of Russia’s war with Ukraine.”
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Career and Family
Discussed“Claudia has pulled this research together into a brand new book entitled "Career and Family: Women's Century-Long Journey Towards Equity."”
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Rebel in the ranks
Discussed“You've written a book called Rebel in the Ranks, which is about Martin Luther; could you just paint a picture of Martin Luther, this figure who so profoundly influenced the path of humanity? Was he an obvious person to trigger the Reformation?”
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The unintended Reformation
Discussed“I'm now embarked on a project that's going to take me several years, I'm sure, and it makes Unintended Reformation look like a micro-history.”
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Drug Use for Grown-Ups
Discussed“In his new book, "Drug Use for Grown-Ups," he argues for a radical overhaul of drug policy.”
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Autobiography
Discussed“Because I read your first book, which is called "High Price," and you were the nerdiest lab rat that ever existed; I would have never imagined you emerging as an advocate.”
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The catcher in the rye, J.D. Salinger
Discussed“It ends up being that I’m going to write the 7 millionth essay about Catcher in the Rye. The world doesn't need another essay on Catcher in the Rye; the world needs kids who can pick a topic they like and then teach us about it!”
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A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age
Discussed“He's got over 200 scientific publications, written a popular book entitled 'A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age,' and won a bundle of teaching awards.”
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Essays in positive economics
Discussed“When you look at Friedman's work on say the 53 positive economics book, he says economists must rely on evidence gleaned from the experiments that happen to occur.”
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The economics of discrimination
Discussed“On the one hand is what Gary Becker wrote about in his dissertation in 1957, which is people just get satisfaction out of hurting another person in a different group—that's one kind of theory.”
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The Nation City
Discussed“But I was eager to talk with Rahm because I just finished reading his fascinating book, 'The Nation City: Why Mayors Are Now Running the World.' It's full of deep insights, and that's no surprise since he has a reputation for being one of the smartest people in politics.”
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A tree grows in Brooklyn
Discussed“Stephen, I've been thinking about a conversation we had about A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. You said you loved that book, but you couldn't remember a single thing about it.”
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Measure What Matter
Discussed“In addition, his New York Times number one bestseller, called "Measure What Matters," popularized the management approach known as Objectives and Key Results, or OKRs.”
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The Great Bridge
Discussed“but I was bullheaded and persevering, and after being turned down hundreds, literally hundreds of times, was able to make this film with the help of, as always, lots of really important and talented people, including David McCullough, who written a book that I'd read about the building of the Brooklyn Bridge called The Great Bridge, and I've just devoured”
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The Joy of X
Discussed“You tell a story in one of your books, called The Joy of X, about a time when your second grader asked you for help on a multiplication problem.”
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Cooking for Geeks
Discussed“Please, I couldn't have a conversation with you without talking about cooking because you've written probably the craziest, in a good way, cookbook of all time. I actually have to make a confession; I picked up your book, and it was delivered to my office, and the only time I've ever hated you, Nathan, was when I decided that I”
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Superfreakonomics
Discussed“We had just written SuperFreakonomics; Stephen Dubner and I, our second book, and we had worked with a bunch of environmentalists on global warming. We had this chapter where we talked about global warming, and I think it was a thoughtful and honest chapter.”
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The Premonition
Discussed“She's one of the heroes in Michael Lewis's book on the pandemic called 'The Premonition', but her work on COVID is just the tip of the iceberg.”
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What to expect when you're expecting
Discussed“I'm not sure whether you know that book, but roughly every first-time parent I know has three copies of it; one that they bought for themselves and two that were gifted to them by friends. And I suspect your book will be gifted much less frequently than 'What to Expect When You’re Expecting,' given people's discomfort with death.”
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Doing Good Better
Discussed“So Will, do you remember how I came to blurb your book, Doing Good Better?”
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Narratives from the crib
Discussed“Even before that, as a precocious two-year-old, her nighttime ramblings while lying alone in bed were so remarkable that they were tape-recorded and analyzed, resulting in a book called 'Narratives from the Crib,' which is still in print today more than 30 years later, now with an introduction written by Emily Oster herself.”
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Expecting better
Discussed“And so you decided, in the midst of all your academic success, but still young and untenured, to do something that many people would perceive as crazy: you decided to write a book for a non-academic audience on pregnancy, even though you’re an economist. That book, of course, was called 'Expecting Better.'”
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Cribsheet
Discussed“So 'Cribsheet,' which is your second book about child-rearing, is very much in the same spirit as 'Expecting Better,' but in many ways, I think it’s harder to write because the data are not nearly as extensive or as conclusive on child-rearing as they are on pregnancy. So how did you deal with that?”
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Contact
Discussed“If you've read the book "Contact" written by Carl Sagan or seen the movie, Jill was the inspiration for the hero played in the movie by Jodie Foster.”
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Le capital au XXIe siècle
Discussed“Here's another question that was absolutely easy for me, but that I'm guessing might have been hard for you: which French economist, author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century, claims that increasing wealth inequality is a feature of capitalism and suggests steeply progressive capital taxes and a cap on the possible total wealth of a person in order to get”
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De ansatte
Discussed“Oh okay, there was a group of people, mostly people who finished in the top 10 to 20, who did a little crowdsourced spreadsheet to see who got which of all the questions on the test, and for that sample I think a majority of the questions had 10 or 11 of us getting it correct, but the two that”
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Our Mathematical Universe
Discussed“In the meantime, if you want to learn more about Max's worldview, check out his book titled 'Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality.' This is a guy who definitely does not think small.”
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Jump
Discussed“On this podcast, I put a huge emphasis on data analysis; in your book, you do not talk much about using data as a source of your insights. It seems to me your success has been more instinctual, that you just have a knack for seeing where the future is going and taking your companies in the right direction; is”
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Plant Hunter
Discussed“Professor Cassandra Quave, an ethnobotanist at Emory University, tells her story in an amazing new memoir entitled The Plant Hunter. Her right leg was amputated when she was three years old, and a subsequent staph infection nearly killed her.”
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The Soul of an Octopus
Discussed“Yeah, among many other books, she wrote one called The Soul of the Octopus. Yeah, and it describes a deep bond, a love affair really, that she shared with a particular octopus.”
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The Book of Hope
Discussed“So your latest book is entitled The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times. And if I'm counting correctly, it's your fifth book that has the word 'hope' in the title, and you've got a podcast called Jane Goodall Hope Cast.”
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Collapse
Discussed“My guest today, Jared Diamond, has written some of the best-selling popular science books of all time, including "Guns, Germs, and Steel" and "Collapse."”
Freakonomics Radio
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Letters to a Young Athlete
Discussed“she interviews Chris Bosh about his own book A Memoir called letters to a young athlete”
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Letters to a Young Poet
Discussed“you'll notice this book is called letters to a young athlete it's modeled on some of my favorite books like letters to a young poet and letters to a young jazz musician”
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To a Young Jazz Musician
Discussed“you'll notice this book is called letters to a young athlete it's modeled on some of my favorite books like letters to a young poet and letters to a young jazz musician”
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Rich Dad Poor Dad
Discussed“and then after that once I got into the NBA I always thought it was fascinating how I started hearing the books like Rich Dad Poor Dad I read that too”
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Bananas
Discussed“It was a big trade fair, much like a world fair, and there was a horticultural exhibit featuring a banana plant with bananas growing on it, according to Virginia Scott Jenkins, a cultural historian and author of 'Bananas: An American History.'”
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Pitch Perfect
Discussed“His company is called Clarity Media Group and he wrote a book called pitch perfect how to say it right the first time every time”
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Kidnap
Discussed“shortland has written a book called kidnap inside the ransom business”
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American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn
Discussed“I am the author of several books including American green the obsessive quest for the Perfect Lawn and these Lawns as it were that existed back in 16th 17th 18th century England were typically found on Estates”
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The Devil You Know
Discussed“I realize that I'm proposing nothing short of the most audacious power play by Black America in the history of the country Charles blow author of the new book The Devil you know a black power Manifesto that's next week until then take care of yourself”
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How the World Remade Hollywood
Discussed“One of his main Inspirations was a Harvard Economist named ed Glaser who four years ago published a Manifesto called Triumph of the city how our greatest invention makes us richer smarter Greener healthier and happier”
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Ed Defender
Discussed“The work that we we first found that really I think sowed the seeds for what would become the downtown project was Ed Glazer's book I was very flattered when Tony reached out to me He read my book and seems to have been excited by it”
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Tribal Leadership
Discussed“but if you read books like good to great or tribal leadership there's a clear at least correlation right if not cause between companies that do well in the long term financially”
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How the Mighty Fall
Discussed“Although if you look at the good to Great companies if you looked at those lately well so there's a follow-up book that Jim Collins came up with which was how the Mighty Fall or fail”
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Triumph of the City
Discussed“he has something I think he refers to as the edifice complex in his book so versus let's build a giant right”
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Subprime Attention Crisis
Discussed“Huang recently published a book called subprime attention crisis advertising in the time bomb at the heart of the Internet”
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Private Equity at Work
Discussed“She’s also co-author of a book called Private Equity at Work: When Wall Street Manages Main Street.”
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The Weirdest People in the World?
Discussed“Henrik recently followed that book with another one called the weirdest people in the world how the West became psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous”
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The Talented Tenth
Discussed“you know Du Bois wrote about this notion of The Talented 10th among black Americans being the educated the intellectual the elite cultural black Americans from let's call it a century ago who he argued would set an example that would lead all black Americans to Aspire to those same things”
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Persuasion
Discussed“This happened to me by the way when a previous book that I wrote called persuasion the first five thousand copies of the book were printed poorly”
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Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
Discussed“His book is called influence the psychology of persuasion We were discussing the new and Expanded Edition which has just been published”
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Conscious Capitalism
Discussed“Some years back he wrote a book called conscious capitalism which argues that prophets and purpose should be fully compatible”
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Conscious Leadership
Discussed“mackie's follow-up book published this fall is called conscious leadership”
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The Little House
Discussed“Once upon a time you might have read a book when you were a kid where there was a house in the country and then the house was surrounded by other houses and then eventually the house was surrounded by these tall apartment buildings and there was an elevated train in front of it and all this kind of stuff”
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Inside of a Dog
Discussed“Alexandra Horowitz who runs a dog cognition Lab at Barnard college is the author of a wonderful book called inside of a dog”
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Fear City
Discussed“and that is the historian Kim Phillips fine author of the book fear city which is about New York's fiscal crisis”
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The Price We Pay
Discussed“and that is Marty McCary he is a surgeon at Johns Hopkins and the author of the price we pay what broke American Health Care and how to fix it”
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Birdwatcher
Discussed“in a book called an American sickness The Physician journalist Elizabeth Rosenthal describes the industrialization of U.S health care”
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The Year of the Puppy
Discussed“I'm writing a book on early dog development which is tentatively titled year of the puppy”
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Being a Dog
Discussed“Her other books include being a dog our dogs ourselves”
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Our Dogs, Ourselves
Discussed“Her other books include being a dog our dogs ourselves”
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Eat Like a Fish
Discussed“including a book called eat like a fish my Adventures farming the ocean to fight climate change by Bren Smith”
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The Power of Bad
Discussed“the social psychologist Roy bowmeister calls it the power of bad”
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Gang Leader for a Day
Discussed“a person you may recognize if you've read his amazing book gang leader for a day or the chapter in Freakonomics called why do drug dealers live with their moms”
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Discussed“and thanks to Erica ocran whose latest book is called highly irregular why tough through and do don't rhyme and other Oddities of the English language”
Speaker Why Is U.S. Media So Negative? | Freakonomics Radio | Episode 477 2023-01-18 Listen at 45:15 -
Dark Money
Discussed“so again taking a page out of a conservatives Playbook I read Jane Mayer's book dark money on the Koch brothers who have invested heavily for years in building for-profit companies and non-profit organizations and infrastructure on the right”
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Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty
Discussed“That's Phoebe Hoban who wrote a biography of Alice Neal. It's called The Art of not sitting pretty”
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How to Become a Successful Artist
Discussed“Resh has been studying and writing about the Art Market for years. his latest book is called how to become a successful artist”
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Chicken Soup for the Soul 20th Anniversary Edition
Discussed“If I wrote Chicken Soup for the Soul and it sells five million copies, now I want to write Chicken Soup for the Automobile, Chicken Soup for the Fountain Pen, Chicken Soup for the Computer Console; doesn't that make a certain amount of sense as opposed to the theory of shirking from the newfound creative identity?”
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The Case against Education
Discussed“The economist Bryan Kaplan, in a book called The Case Against Education, argues that one major function of a college degree is to act as a social signal—a way to tell the world that you are worth hiring, worth being friends with, perhaps worth being intimidated by. In Kaplan's view, this has driven a kind of credential inflation, where more”
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Beaten Down, Worked Up
Discussed“We had help this week from Jeremy Johnston and Jared Holt, and special thanks to Stephen Greenhouse, author of 'Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor.'”
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Together
Discussed“Morty is also the author of a recent book about loneliness it's called together”
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Heat Wave
Discussed“He ultimately wrote a book about the tragedy called Heatwave”
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The Fall of Public Man
Discussed“it's the fall of public man”
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The Lonely Crowd
Discussed“you know the lonely crowd”
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Going Solo
Discussed“so kleinenberg wrote another book this one called going solo the extraordinary rise and surprising appeal of living alone”
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Palaces for the People
Discussed“This is the idea kleinenberg plays with in his latest book called palaces for the people”
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Willpower
Discussed“Roy Baumeister and John Tierney have written two books together the first called willpower was published in 2011.”
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How Music Works
Discussed“but also it reminds me of something you wrote in how Music Works about how music evolved with the spaces it's played in”
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The Manager's Communication Toolbox
Discussed“Putting Putin is also the author of The Landmark book bowling alone which was published in 2000”
Modern Wisdom
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Humankind
Discussed“There was a Rutger bregman wrote a book called humankind and in that he talked about the puppification of humans and that was the same thing that evoking of some sort of uh sense of of care”
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Goodnight Moon
Discussed“I'm trying to get her to go to sleep and I've read her the book Goodnight Moon seven times and she says mommy read it to me one more time one more time”
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The Ape that Understood the Universe
Discussed“uh moral Animal by Robert Wright the ape who understood the universe by Steve Stuart Williams is the number one primer the in fact just the ape who understood the universe by Steve Stuart Williams all you need is that book”
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A Better Ape
Discussed“uh well they can read my new book called better ape with Richmond Campbell”
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The Ultimate Guide to Red Light Therapy
Discussed“but there's a book by Ari Whitton who goes deep with it”
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Is There Anything Good About Men?
Discussed“so you know Roy's book I love is there anything good about men it's just a terrific book and it you know I can just recite from that”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Quitters Never Win
Discussed“I know you have to get eye test every single time beforehand uh and they check it all like that way so yeah I was I was sitting there reading the bising book and it's like man am I ever going to have to do that we figuring out a ways to lie and everything”
ChooseFI
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Discussed“And you're making me think of Mark Manson's book, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F***. He talks about how one thing that makes people miserable is the idea that problems shouldn't exist.”
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Why Does The Stock Market Go Up?
Discussed“Brian it has a book that's coming out with choosify publishing later on this year and we'll do an announcement on that in the near future talking about why does the stock market go up”
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Thinking in Bets
Discussed“listen to her on others on other podcasts like Reader Books thinking abouts was just a life-changing book for me”
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The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life
Discussed“Um, yeah, some of those micro moments that I had a chance to see in going through this exercise was like, 'Oh here's a book that I read, The Soul of Money, which is the greatest book I've ever read in terms of my emotional relationship with money.'”
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A Book on Books
Discussed“We're working with you to bring a book into the world that will discuss this exact tax strategy—that tool that is massively underutilized.”
