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Books podcasts were talking about in February 2023
Books featured heavily across several podcasts in February 2023, spanning discussions on human history, philosophy, science fiction, and politics. On The Tim Ferriss Show, John Vervaeke discussed the profound impact of Pierre Hadot's What Is Ancient Philosophy?, crediting it as the book that changed his life, and also praised Plotinus's Enneads as an irreplaceable sacred text acting as both a philosophical argument and a spiritual exercise. Science fiction and speculative works also drew substantial attention. Adrian Tchaikovsky appeared on The Ezra Klein Show to recommend Emma Newman's After Atlas for its bleakly plausible human politics and R.F. Kuang's Babel for its examination of imperialism and language. On the same show, Herman Pontzer's Burn received a recommendation from the host as part of the final book recommendations. Meanwhile, other conversational recommendations included Chris DiStefano mentioning Blackbird on The Joe Rogan Experience, Ben Bowlin discussing Brian C. Kalt's Constitutional Cliffhangers and Scott M. Carney's The Red Market on Stuff They Don't Want You To Know, reflecting a diverse array of interests in criminal justice, legal loopholes, anthropology, and deep philosophical traditions that collectively explored the complexities of human behavior, society, and institutions.
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Blackbird
Recommended“I I there's a show on Apple TV was called Blackbird it just came out last year”
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Sierra Six
Discussed“uh I'm on um Sierra six”
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The man from nowhere
Discussed“it's a Korean film called The Man from Nowhere and it's also and fortunately it came out after the gray men did”
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Gunmetal Gray
Discussed“in one of the books uh I think it was uh gunmetal gray it was the sixth book”
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Mad Max: Fury Road
Discussed“I love her because she just done Fury Road so I mean I'd love to write something for her to be in”
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The Border
Discussed“there's one called though there's one called The Border I think one”
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The Gunslinger
Discussed“but I think he did the Gunslinger or he did he's done some of them”
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11/22/63
Recommended“I don't know if you've ever read 11 22 63... oh my God it's a magnificent book”
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The Power of the Dog
Recommended“the power of the dog it's three books they're fantastic”
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The Operator
Recommended“is it called the operator um it's a Navy SEAL book and he read it”
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The Dead Zone
Discussed“what was that movie where the the the one evil guy becomes president and oh God the Greg Greg uh Stillson uh yeah Dead Zone Dead Zone thank you”
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Never Finished
Recommended“If you listen to David's life story David has uh two incredible books they're they're amazing and one of the things about the books that's so amazing is you realize like what he endured as a child and what he went through like the the abuse that he received and how he came out of that this like Unstoppable dude”
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Means of Ascent
Discussed“one of my favorite books means of ascent which is about how LBJ straight up stole the 1948 senate election here in Texas”
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Obama's Wars
Discussed“great book Bob Woodward Obama's Wars about the very first year of the Obama presidency”
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After Steve
Recommended“There's a great book uh I forget exactly the name I think it's Apple life after Steve so after Steve Jobs died Steve was a product guy... Tim Cook is a managerial type his job is to squeeze as much money out of the stock price”
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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The Dragon's Triangle
Discussed“so in his book um which was published in 1989 called The Dragon's Triangle this author of berlitz said that Japan lost five military uh vessels in the area that we're talking about between 1952 and 1954”
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Bermuda Triangle Mystery - Solved
Discussed“in 1995 an American author named Larry cush published the Bermuda Triangle mystery solved”
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Constitutional Cliffhangers
Recommended“and he also recommends a chapter from a book called constitutional Cliffhangers a legal guide for presidents and their enemies uh and it's on the loophole in the 22nd amendment that could allow a two-term president to stay in power”
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Discussed“which of course for some of us will call to mind the famous narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket written by Edgar Allan Poe a bizarre coincidence in a very dark one where Poe writes a story about some people lost at sea and survival cannibalism”
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Titanic: The Ship That Never Sank?
Discussed“according to the most famous proponent in this Theory a writer named Robin Gardener there's much more to the story uh Gardner wrote a book called Titanic the ship did never sank”
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The red market
Recommended“do check out the red Market if you have not uh if you haven't listened to it yet”
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Waiting For "SUPERMAN"
Discussed“there's a movie called Waiting for Superman I think it's called it's about the implementation of charter schools and how it seems very appealing on the surface but there's a lot of odd politics involved in that system in general”
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Mysteries of the unknown
Discussed“that's something that I think a lot of Us wish we had known earlier as kids you know reading the time life Mysteries of the unknown books and all that all that kind of stuff which I love and still reread”
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The Black Monday Murders, Vol. 1
Discussed“I gotta stop rereading Black Monday murders”
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Blade runner
Discussed“and it reminds me of like I watched Blade Runner last night for the first time in years and instead of murdering replicants they retire”
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Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
Discussed“so a good example would be that up until 2017 the NSA was essentially able to surveil domestic sources with a kind of sketchy interpretation of the 702 provision of the foreign intelligence surveillance act you may know it as fisa”
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Thinking In Numbers
Discussed“Born on a blue day and I think he's got another one thinking in numbers”
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Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary General of the United Nations 1953-1961, Died 18 September 1961
Discussed“and while he is in that position working full time he is also writing his uh economics thesis for his Doctorate at Stockholm universe diversity the English title of his thesis is the spread of the business cycle”
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Spies in the Congo
Recommended“so there's a book that comes out this awesome book by an academic named Susan Williams called who killed hammersholt and this seems to be the thing that actually triggers a reinvestigation”
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Who killed Hammarskjöld?
Recommended“so there's a book that comes out this awesome book by an academic named Susan Williams called who killed hammersholt”
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Free Fire
Discussed“so things did turn around a little bit after the publication of a fictional book a novel called free fire by a fellow named CJ box in 2007 turns out there was a senator from Wyoming who was a fan of CJ box and read the book and thought hang on that can't be real”
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When Prophecy Fails
Discussed“and uh this was so interesting to these scientists who conducted this that they wrote a book about it uh back in 1957 I think called when prophecy fails and they summed it up like this but we've said it before but they were in the trenches on the research they said quote a man with conviction is a hard”
Behind the Bastards
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The Illuminati
Discussed“um I found another book that I have been reading through that is one of the crank books it's called the Illuminati the secret society that hijacked the World by Jim Mars”
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The Illuminati
Discussed“and I'm in a quote from the book The Illuminati by the Charles River Press”
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First peoples
Discussed“a passage from the book First Peoples populating the planet charts out how things went from there”
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Nature's Eternal Religion
Discussed“the other book that he gets is called Nature's Eternal religion by Ben Classen”
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The secret world government
Discussed“he sends this to Jewish friends a copy of a book called The Secret World Government by oh God I I actually I okay I I have confidence I can kind of do this name Major General account cheer up Spiro de novich”
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Bobby Fischer
Recommended“his biographer Frank Brady who who writes a really good book about probably the best like biography of Bobby Fischer called end game Bobby Fisher's remarkable rise and fall that I'm gonna be using so good”
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This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed
Discussed“In the book, This Non-Violent Stuff Will Get You Killed, author Charles E. Cobb documents this history, discussing the wide use of arms in defending civil rights organizers from white supremacists.”
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Children of the Night
Discussed“as Paul Kenyon describes in Children of the Night esku was one minute and 17 seconds into his address when he heard yells from somewhere in the back”
Timcast IRL
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A Game of Shadows
Discussed“have you seen Sherlock Holmes Game of Shadows the movie plot is basically spoiler alert for this you know 15 year old movie or whatever”
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The Network State
Recommended“there's this whole concept of a network state that Balaji has come up with a really interesting book sort of about how you know social networks online communities are going to crowdsource particularly with crypto because you know that is a fully independent outside economic structure”
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Rise of the Fourth Reich
Discussed“is that you talk about Nuremberg you know your book rise of the fourth Reich and all that we we fed a lot of Libertarians come on the show and talk about”
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The Least of Us
Discussed“and now most recently um the least of us about Fentanyl and he does the reporting”
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The Wreck of the Titan Or, Futility
Discussed“You know about that book uh from the 1800s about the Titan”
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Color, Communism and Common Sense
Recommended“Immortal Legend says you should read the book color communism Common Sense by Manning Johnson”
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Non-binary and Genderqueer Genders
Discussed“sounds a lot like that book that we bring up periodically the one that's in front of you yeah genderqueer”
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Forbidden Archeology
Discussed“There's an excellent book called forbidden archeology um there's a shorter paperback version of it but it's just an analysis of about 1500 archaeological digs in which when they do carbon dating humans have been here way way longer”
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2034
Recommended“Tim and Ian please check out 2034 a novel of the next World War by Admiral James Steph stav Rivas it's sobering and clearly shows it explains World War III will touch American soil”
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Original Notes on the Book of Proverbs
Discussed“I think you would love the Book of Proverbs the wisdom book it's series of limericks about wisdom and the consequence of rejecting it it seems similar to things like Confucius written by Solomon”
The Ezra Klein Show
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The hungry brain
Discussed“and his book The Hungry brain is to me the most convincing model for why obesity is rising year after year by so many who try so hard to change their waistlines fail even after they sometimes first succeed”
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Under a White Sky
Discussed“and sometimes I feel like it's all the same story playing out again and again in a way that's what Elizabeth Colbert's under a white sky is about”
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Burn
Recommended“so the first one I want to recommend is Herman ponce's book Burn it's a really great book on several levels”
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Children of Memory
Discussed“and then Tchaikovsky brought out his new book children of memory and this one is about corbetts about a kind of bird or at least that's what it is supposed to be about”
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After atlas
Recommended“after Atlas by Emma Newman is when I'd throw out there that's a relatively recent science fiction book in her planetful series and I throw it in there mostly because it has some of the most sort of bleakly plausible bad human politics going on there”
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Babel
Recommended“now another recent book is um RF quang's Babel which has the most astonishing examination of imperialism and language and appropriation as part of its uh fantasy plot”
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The Pain Management Workbook
Recommended“and she's the author of The Pain Management workbook which I would recommend to anybody dealing with chronic pain”
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Pain
Recommended“and the third book is going to be pain the science of suffering which is by Patrick Wall”
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Bright dead things
Discussed“I have two copies of her earlier collection bright dead things”
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The Hurting Kind
Discussed“her new collection of poems is called the herding kind and reading it”
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I and Thou
Discussed“you are able to sort of achieve that flowing outward towards others that Martin buber talks about in his book I thou”
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Rebooting AI
Discussed“because you have a nice question that you ask someone rebooting AI”
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The Ministry for the Future
Discussed“and the idea that kept coming to my head about this was from Kim Stanley Robinson's book the ministry for the future which takes place sort of in the near future as societies come to grips with climate change”
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To Shape a New World - Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr
Discussed“Brendan Terry is a professor at Harvard University and he's a co-editor of to shape a new world essays on the political philosophy of Martin Luther King Jr I loved this book”
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Negroes with Guns
Discussed“one way to bring it back to King is that you know early in his career he was engaged in a debate with a man named Robert Williams who wrote a book that was very popular amongst the black power generation called negroes with guns”
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Righteous discontent
Discussed“so my colleague Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham wrote a phenomenal book many years ago called righteous discontent and that's what introduces the phrase the politics of respectability”
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Strength to love
Discussed“well again I I go back to the sermon he gave and it's collected and strength to love and it's called Shattered Dreams”
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To Shape a New World
Discussed“this is one of the powerful interventions that you see in uh Lionel McPherson's essay in to shape a new world”
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From the war on poverty to the war on crime
Discussed“I think we also and my colleague Elizabeth Hinton dear friend in her first book from the war on poverty to the war on crime one way to read that book is to say that she's telling a kind of tragic story about the loss of a particular ideal”
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Realigners
Discussed“and it actually reminds me of this book that I I've been reading Timothy Shanks realigners where he looks at the ways that parties and coalitions change over the course of American history”
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The Homevoter Hypothesis
Discussed“so there's an economist called build Fishel who wrote a very influential book called The Home voter hypothesis which essentially says that homeowners become single issue voters based on protecting the value of their property”
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Public Citizens
Discussed“something that you footnote here is a work of the historian Paul Sabin in his book public citizens which is also influenced me quite a bit and in that he's Tracking not just this sort of mid-century move in liberalism towards some skepticism of the state but the rise of this public interest group complex”
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Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy
Discussed“and there's a book by uh William Howell and Terry Mo a political scientist called president's populism and the crisis of democracy”
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The Right to Sex
Discussed“one of the motivations for this chat for me has been that there's been this Spate of books over the past couple years with names like bad sex and rethinking sex and the right to sex and I've done podcasts with some of these people like I'm your shanivasan and Maggie Nelson and Erica bakayaki”
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The Sabbath
Recommended“when I was in college a rabbi I knew he gave me Abraham Joshua heschel's book the Sabbath and I love that book”
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Stones
Recommended“I love Stones by Kevin young”
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frank: sonnets
Recommended“Diane Seuss's book that just won the Pulitzer it's called Frank sonnets”
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How the World Really Works
Recommended“the second book I'll recommend is vaclov's Mills how things really work which I haven't quite finished”
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Ages of American Capitalism
Recommended“and then a book that came out after I wrote my book but one um an odd by an author who I quote in the book at the very beginning when I Define capitalist as Jonathan Levy and he published a book I think it was was my last year ages of American capitalism where he goes through this history”
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WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE : CHAOS OR COMMUNITY? / by Martin Luther King, Jr. ; with a special introduction by Coretta Scott King
Recommended“if people want to start with one thing he actually wrote to read one book which one should they start with oh that's a hard one I I would probably say I think you get the best sense of his mature thought from uh his 1967 book Where Do We Go From Here chaos or community”
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The trumpet of conscience
Recommended“which is still our question so I would definitely recommend that I also really love trumpet of conscience uh his Canadian Broadcasting Corporation lectures that were published posthumously”
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The Sword and the Shield
Recommended“and then three books and I'll keep it on a King theme for the holiday I really strongly recommend pineal Joseph's The Sword and the shield it's a dual biography of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X”
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A more beautiful and terrible history
Recommended“I also really like Gian Theo Harris's more beautiful and terrible history I think for people coming to the study of the Civil Rights Movement for the first time or kind of curious about why some of the things that I've said don't sound familiar to them she writes in a really accessible and intelligent way about some of the”
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Dark ghettos
Recommended“and then kind of Where Do We Go From Here question you know I want to recommend my colleague Tommy Shelby's book dark ghetto which is a king inspired philosophical reflection on the Deep structure of ghetto poverty and what it requires of us as a society to do to redress it”
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Partisans
Recommended“she's the author of two great books about conservative movement messengers of the right and her new unpartisans which I highly recommend”
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Fit Nation
Recommended“it's a book called fit nation that gains and pains of America's exercise Obsession by Natalia petrozella and it's basically like this hundred year look at exercise in the United States”
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From the soil, the foundations of Chinese society
Recommended“and there's one book that's very popular it's called from the soil the foundations of Chinese society”
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Fei Xiaotong and sociology in revolutionary China
Recommended“the second book I would recommend is a biography of facial Tong and it's called facial Tong and sociology in contemporary China”
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The Fractalist
Recommended“so this book is called the fractalis Memoirs of a scientific Maverick by Benoit mendelberg and this is the Pioneer of the geometry of fractals”
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Crabgrass Frontier
Recommended“so there's a book called cram grass Frontier the suburbanization of the United States which is an absolute classic it's by a historian and tells sort of the long-term history of Housing Development mortgage markets housing policy the real estate industry in the U.S”
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Neighborhood Defenders
Recommended“there are three political scientists Katie Einstein David Glick and Maxwell Palmer who've written a book called neighborhood Defenders and a bunch of papers since then which are just a fantastic insight into the nitty-gritty politics”
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Here comes everybody
Recommended“so the book I've been reading there is Clay shirkey's Here Comes everybody which is kind of this early book and kind of like filled with excitement about the promise of social technology and social media”
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The profiteers
Recommended“so there's a great book I'd recommend by Sally Denton called the profiteers which is about this company Bechtel which is one of the big companies that helped build the Hoover Dam”
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Slouching Towards Utopia
Recommended“Brad Delong my friend and Economist and historian has this wonderful book called slouching towards Utopia which is a history of what he calls the long 20th century and if you just want to understand how the world changed from he says that 1870 was the pivot point of History you've got to read that book”
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Berlin diary
Recommended“but he also read something called Berlin diary which was published in 1941 without the benefit of hindsight which is Diary entries as he's witnessing the rise of fascism and totalitarianism in Germany and I don't think I need to tell your audience why I think that book is so relevant to this moment and I recently reread it and”
Huberman Lab
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Zoological Philosophy
Discussed“So Lamarck worked, he published his book a little more than 200 years ago. And he believed in the inheritance of acquired traits.”
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Jaws
Recommended“This discussion can be fairly brief because abundant data now show—and this is beautifully described in the book titled 'Jaws: A Hidden Epidemic,' written by my colleagues Paul Ehrlich and Sandra Kahn at Stanford School of Medicine.”
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Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
Discussed“my colleague David Spiegel at um Stanford Psychiatry and the the great Bob spolski Robert spolski of why zebras don't get ulcers y behave Etc and fame”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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The keto reset diet
Discussed“So, we wrote a prescription ketogenic diet. I I I'm a fan of the keto diet. I don't think everybody needs to be on the keto diet, but um, my prescription ketogenic diet, we wrote a keto diet right down to the grocery list, keto reset diet.”
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Pretty Little Liars
Discussed“they canceled it I was devastated and the same producers said hey we have this script it's based off of a book we think you'd be great for it and they said it's called Pretty Little Liars and I'm like ah I was such a huge fan of those books”
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Genius Foods
Discussed“so let's talk about genius Foods then yeah chapter three of this book you talk about sugar”
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The Genius Life
Discussed“so one of the things that really did catch me off guard was it was in your um your book The Genius life where you talk about this study with the mice and you make the case that travel is a has positive relationships with health”
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The Kindness Method
Discussed“and this leads on to the kindness method which was the first first book you wrote”
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The Last Diet.
Discussed“the last called the last diet”
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Gene Eating
Discussed“and obviously as well you've written these two fantastic books called why calories don't count and Gene eating”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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The Bhagavad Gita
Discussed“Yes, it's an interesting concept, and it's talked about in the Bhagavad-gita and not the monk text, and in the book, it talks about how like ego is demonstrated in two ways.”
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Chocolate to Morphine
Discussed“Your book chocolate to morphine was pivotal and often the most stolen books in colleges in the last 40 years.”
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The Natural Mind
Recommended“The books that we were referring to in this episode of the Natural Mind, which is right here.”
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Spontaneous Happiness
Recommended“Um, and then this other book I have from Dr. Andrew Weil is Spontaneous Happiness, but there is a new book on the way as well. So, these are two great starters”
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Sunshine Mind
Discussed“And I don't think we ever arrive; I wrote about it in the book, but I said Maya Angelou, she did an interview with Oprah in her later years, and she said, I'm still learning.”
This Week in Startups
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#Girlboss
Discussed“the person who wrote This Book you know this girl Millennials 20 something year old with like an edgy haircut you know standing a Kimbo looking like she knew what was up inspired so many people”
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Venture Capital
Discussed“there was something called Stan Pratt's guide to venture capital listed every Venture Capital firm in the country which wasn't that big and I went through and I basically wrote letters and called called almost everyone”
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The chickenshit club
Discussed“you didn't bring a case only one the chicken Club why the justice department fails to prosecute Executives July 2017 this came out Jesse eisinger I have to check that out”
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The Third Rail
Discussed“yes talking about this book called third rail I think I just have to point this out I've been obsessed with this I show this to everybody”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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The Gulag Archipelago
Discussed“If you read the Gulag Archipelago, for example, Solzhenitsyn does a masterful job of indicating how the consequences, the brutal, tyrannical actions of Lenin and Stalin, were necessary concomitants to—or necessary outcomes of—the axioms that were embedded in the Communist worldview.”
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Case Against the Sexual Revolution
Recommended“Her recent book, 'The Case Against the Sexual Revolution,' published in 2022, notes the emergence of widespread disillusionment with sex, particularly among young men and women alike, and discusses the long-term psychological and social consequences of a life driven by hedonistic urges amid the upheaval of traditional marital concepts.”
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Discussed“I remember when I was about 17, I read this book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Oh yes, wonderful book!”
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Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica
Discussed“There's a curious passage in the 'Optics.' I don't recall it because I read it many years ago, but it mentions how God initially formed all matter indestructibly, and there's something about gold shortly thereafter.”
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The Natural Order of Money
Recommended“He's recently published a book, The Natural Order of Money, which is what we're going to talk about today, trying to puzzle through just exactly what constitutes money and how it might be productively contemplated psychologically, biologically, to some degree, at least in terms of its potential biological implications, economically, sociologically, philosophically, and theologically.”
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The Skeptical Environmentalist
Discussed“He faced considerable backlash early on after his book, 'The Skeptical Environmentalist,' for suggesting we ought to prioritize various important issues rather than view climate change as the singular focus.”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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What is Ancient Philosophy?
Recommended“No, it's Jules Evans on Rebel Wisdom, the book that changed my life. I picked What Is Ancient Philosophy? by Pierre Hadot.”
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The Enneads
Recommended“I read Plotinus' Ennead on the nature of beauty or on the nature of One and contemplation, on dialect, any of these great Enneads.”
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Cognition in the Wild
Recommended“I guess the classic book by this is Cognition In the Wild by Ed Hutchins, where he talks about the fact that nobody, no person, navigates a ship.”
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Dungeons & Dragons Player's Handbook (Core Rulebook, D&D Roleplaying Game)
Discussed“As someone who was a super devoted D&D player for a long time, which may seem, I'll just explain to folks, may seem to contradict something that I named as the appeal of a lot of your games, which is the simplicity. D&D, especially when I was playing — and I have First Edition Player's Handbook and Dungeon Master's Guide”
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Dungeon Masters Guide
Discussed“D&D, especially when I was playing — and I have First Edition Player's Handbook and Dungeon Master's Guide and so on, I still have all of my modules and campaigns and everything, is extremely in-depth.”
The Mel Robbins Podcast
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Two Weeks Notice
Recommended“and you want to know why I'm saying that number because I'm damn proud of her and I also think if you put your head down and you listen to what some expert like Amy is about to tell you and you pick up her book and you read the blueprint you can figure this out too”
Conversations with Tyler
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A Farewell to Alms
Discussed“about a decade ago you and I did a symposium with Greg Clark I think it was at UC Davis and we talked about his book farewell to alms”
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The constitution of liberty
Discussed“now when I read High X constitution of Liberty I see a thinker who favored a social welfare state single-payer health insurance and vigorous application of antitrust law”
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The Feast of the Goat
Discussed“one of them is the Feast of the goat which is about trujillo's rule in the in Santo Domingo in the 1950s and the other is the dream of the celt”
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The Dream of the Celt
Discussed“and the other is the dream of the celt which is about Roger casement an Irish uh uh Diplomat and uh humanitarian who served the British crown in the first Decades of the 20th century exposing uh terrible humanitarian disasters in the Congo”
Stuff You Should Know
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The Amber Room
Discussed“relied on the work of Adrian Levy or Levy and Catherine Scott Clark investigative journalist for the guardian who also wrote a book called the Amber Room the fate of the world's greatest Lost Treasure”
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'The Beverly Hills Supper Club
Discussed“no there's another guy named Robert Webster who was in that video I sent you and he wrote another definitive book on it um called the the the Beverly Hills Supper Club fire the story the untold story behind Kentucky's greatest tragedy and it's really exhaustive too”
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All My Patients are Under the Bed
Discussed“and all of a sudden they're pets and he wrote a book called all my patients are under the bed that's so darn cute it is super cute”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Consider Phlebas
Discussed“The dream is to have the good overpower the bad — have you ever read the Culture Series by Iain Banks? Not yet, but I get criticized daily by mutual friends for not having done so, and I feel like a lesser man as a result.”
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What's Our Problem?
Recommended“He's the author and illustrator of the amazing blog called 'Wait But Why,' and is the author of a new book coming out tomorrow called 'What's Our Problem: A Self-Help Book For Societies.'”
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Why We're Polarized
Recommended“It's very complex. Ezra Klein has a great book, 'Why We're Polarized,' where he talks about a lot of this.”
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Dreams of a final theory
Discussed“So Weinberg has this book called 'Dreams of a Final Theory.' Yeah. And I had this conversation with him; I said, 'Why do you think there’s ever going to be a final theory?”
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A new kind of science
Discussed“I just don’t think, you know, he wrote a book, A New Kind of Science, basically hinting at which a lot of people offended as like, we don’t have a good way to talk about these objects.”
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The First Man
Discussed“and I think it's interesting that after his death uh a book called the first man was published which I don't know if he had intended to publish I don't remember the specifics about it but it's about him as a child right”
Modern Wisdom
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Dataclysm
Discussed“I don't know if you read this wonderful book by Christian Rudder called dataclism so he was the founder and chief technology officer of Okay Cupid”
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A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
Discussed“I kind of liked that title because there's an amazing Julian Bond book The History of the World in 10 half chapters”
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In a World of Ice, She Will Burn
Discussed“I listened I've actually just finished I think it called a world of Ice and Fire oh whatever whatever the prequel book is that this series of House of the Dragon is based on so I got super into it and I said oh I'm gonna get the book and listen to it”
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Fire
Discussed“I listened I've actually just finished I think it called a world of Ice and Fire oh whatever whatever the prequel book is that this series of House of the Dragon is based on so I got super into it and I said oh I'm gonna get the book and listen to it”
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Beyond a Materialist Worldview
Discussed“that's just not understanding how to play the game so Ian mcgilchrist guy that wrote The Master in his Emissary fantastic really great insight um had a conversation with him and it was an interesting time last year because I was really really digging into this tension between cognition and intuition”
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Drunk
Discussed“This is also what I learned from Edward slingle and the guy that wrote Drunk he's saying that switching off your uh PFC your prefrontal cortex is actually one of the best things that you can do for creativity”
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The master and his emissary
Discussed“so Ian mcgilchrist guy that wrote The Master in his Emissary fantastic really great insight”
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Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy, The-Holiday Ed.
Recommended“I've got here uh The Melancholy death of oyster Boy by Tim Burton which is poetry and this is from my speech Coach and he's been getting me to do poetry because it's got these sort of weird rhythms to it and um it's great”
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Don't Trust Your Gut
Discussed“I think that another start which I picked up last year from Seth Stevens dividowitz's book don't trust your gut is a man who works in hospitality and earns three hundred thousand dollars a year is the same level of attractiveness As A Firefighter or a lawyer that earns sixty thousand dollars a year”
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Human Compatible
Discussed“the thing that I learned from Stuart Russell guy that wrote human compatible he's also like it's the textbook when it comes to computer science”
ChooseFI
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David and Goliath
Discussed“I totally agree. That was from 'David and Goliath' by Malcolm Gladwell.”
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Financial Freedom
Discussed“she actually initially was introduced to the concepts through Grant sabatier's book Financial Freedom but interestingly enough she didn't think that it was reachable though it piqued her interest she didn't think it was doable after reading his book because he reached Phi in five years”
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Choose FI
Recommended“so I said how about if you read choose a fi which I already digested super fast and then we'll have like a little date night and so it was like okay fine so she read the book”
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Stress Free for Good
Discussed“he wrote a book called forgive for good and this is a quote from that book”
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The Book Publishing Industry
Discussed“and Black Swan events aren't quite so Black Swan right That's what Jim talks about in his book and in his stock series that we see what I mean maybe this obviously kovid 2020 that was something that's not going to happen or has not happened once a decade”
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Make Time
Recommended“so in this case 168 we had the opportunity to interview John zaraski the author of make time”
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We're Talking Millions!
Recommended“we are bringing Paul Merriman back on the show and he has a new book called we're talking Millions”
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Money for the Rest of Us: 10 Questions to Master Successful Investing
Recommended“and this for anybody who's really interested in investing I think one of the best books that's come out in most recent years is by J David Stein who has a podcast called money for the rest wrote a book money for the rest of us 10 questions to master successful investing”
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The Bucket List Journal
Recommended“I just pulled off the bookshelf ben nemton who I had on episode 36 who wrote this book called The Bucket List journal and the reason I pulled it off is because I'd encourage everyone to check this out”
The Rubin Report
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The Gift of Violence
Recommended“Matt Thornton has a great book "The Gift of Violence" about this, when he was talking about the police and the role of the police with young Black men, I mean, that was just so contrary to what the data is.”
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The Brothers Karamazov
Discussed“This is the plot, to bring it back to Dostoyevsky, this is the plot of "The Brothers Karamazov" in a certain way, that he's got this guy, Alyosha, who is really just an intense kind of spiritual mystic.”
The Daily Stoic
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Enchiridion
Discussed“Actually, Epictetus talks about this. He says, 'You know, someone’s working out, they’re lifting weights.' You don’t say, 'Show me your muscles.'”
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Discussed“I still have my copy of 'Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World,' which has got to be 15 years old by now.”
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The Secret History of the Mongols
Discussed“It was the same decade that 'The Secret History of the Mongols' was first published in English, also by Harvard University.”
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Timon of Athens
Discussed“I remember discussing Shakespeare’s 'Timon of Athens' today, a work many dismiss as worthless because it doesn’t fit typical artistic criteria.”
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The Moral Arc
Discussed“When Obama left office, he supposedly spoke to some of his aides about that famous line, which I believe is in the book, about how the arc of history is long, but it bends toward truth.”
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The Woman's Hour
Discussed“That is something you talk a lot about in the book, and I'm glad you did because I loved that book, The Women's Hour, about the passing of the amendment that gives women the right to vote.”
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The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published
Discussed“A final reflection I want to make is related to a personal experience you share in your book about watching events unfold on a television in your parents' house.”
The Book Review
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The Bells
Discussed“he wrote The Bells there which is the first piece of writing in which I ever came across the word tin tabulation which is not a word I use very often”
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Annabel Lee
Discussed“he wrote Annabelle Lee there which is the poem that starts it was many and many a year ago in a kingdom by the sea I love that poem I was young and I was emotional”
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This Other Eden
Discussed“what's he been doing is writing and what's he doing now is writing and probably taking a Victory lap for this book this other Eden which just came out this January”
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Tinkers
Discussed“You may know Paul Harden cuz in 20 he won the Pitzer prize for fiction for his book Tinkers and he kind of came out of nowhere actually that was his debut novel”
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Enon
Discussed“he was on the hook for a second book after he wrote Enon cuz he had this two book contract and he finished his book tour and he was just playing around with a scene where he was imagining some side characters from Enon”
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Victory City
Discussed“it's going to come out right around the time that this podcast drops and it is called Victory City and it's by salmon rushy”
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Birnam Wood
Discussed“and that is out February 7th a book that's coming out a month later on March 7th is Burnham Wood by Elanor katton”
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Pineapple Street
Discussed“the next book we're going to talk about is totally contemporary it is set in Brooklyn in New York and it's called pineapple Street and it's by Jenny Jackson”
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Poverty, by America
Discussed“so this new book called poverty by America clearly grew out of the research he was doing for his last book”
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Monsters
Discussed“our next title seems like it may be a book of hor and in many ways it is it's essentially a book length essay called Monsters by Claire derer and it has to do with real life monsters”
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The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club)
Discussed“so this book is the Covenant of Water by Abraham vazi”
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Oscar Wars
Discussed“and there's a book that comes out the near the end of February called Oscar Wars and it's by Michael Schulman”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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Forward
Discussed“I want a quote from your new book entitled forward and you're writing about how a year into campaigning the hard work finally started to yield results”
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Your inner fish
Discussed“So reading your books was actually the first time that I ever understood what was wrong about that logic.”
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Animal species and evolution
Discussed“and ran into him once in the hallway and I was reading his great Tome animal species and evolution which is an 800 page book on how new species form which was very influential in the field and he looked at me and said hey you like it but you were literally carrying his book”
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What Evolution Is
Discussed“and ran into him once in the hallway and I was reading his great Tome animal species and evolution which is an 800 page book on how new species form which was very influential in the field and he looked at me and said hey you like it but you were literally carrying his book”
My First Million
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How to Get Rich
Recommended“There's this guy named Felix Dennis. Have you ever read uh this awesome book called How to get rich? I love that book. Yeah I love that book. I recommend that book to everyone. It's horribly titled but it's the best book I've ever”
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Out Of Control
Discussed“and I was like and then I was like intuitively there's something more like um that Kevin Kelly thing the true fans thousand true fans where it's like uh he wrote this blog post that's amazing that's called a thousand true fans basically says if you can have if you can have a thousand true fans a true fan being”
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Bulletproof Web Design
Discussed“he goes when I first started meta lab Dan cedarholm was my hero a great opening line a great one because I don't know who this guy is and now I'm like why is this person your hero he goes this bulletproof web was the first book I read I used to reverse engineer his style sheets on simple bits”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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How to Save the West
Recommended“he is the host of The Young Heretics podcast and author of the new book out today which I highly highly recommend to you how to save the West ancient wisdom for five modern crises”
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Chasing Catastrophe
Recommended“the book is called chasing catastrophe and it is well worth your time”
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How to Be a Woman in Business (While Being True to Yourself)
Discussed“this reminds me of the debate not directly between them but sort of between them between Michelle Obama and Cheryl Sandberg who is uh CEO of Facebook and Cheryl written that book lean in”
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Sex Madonna - Standee
Discussed“I mean I get the fact that Madonna made her career on I mean remember one of the biggest things for her was always to be the provocateur and she had the sex book do you remember that book yeah”
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Prepared Not Scared
Discussed“Bill Stanton is with us as well Bill's a former NYPD police officer and also the author of the book prepared not scared your go-to guide for staying safe in an unsafe World”
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The Blackwoods
Recommended“his name is Phil Houston he's author of the book spy the LIE which by the way you should totally buy it's available still with New York time bestseller and for very good reason there too”
No Stupid Questions
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Parasite
Discussed“I mean did you watch parasite I did”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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Dialogue
Discussed“and I I I've been listening to dialogue by Robert McKee I know he's a guest that's coming up yeah”
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Happy-Go-Lucky
Recommended“happy-go-lucky it's like I think it's probably the most uh prescient uh percent prescient uh take on the pandemic and and the lifestyle that we all kind of had to uh uh”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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Tamara de Lempicka
Discussed“And then, you know, met this woman who I talk about in the book called Tamara de Lempicka, who is, you know, one of the most famous Cubist painters. So, you know, a lot of these things happened because I was willing, you know, to do things that, you know, I mean, I lived in Monaco; driving people around might”
Freakonomics Radio
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Human Development Report 1994
Discussed“When she worked at the UN, Rayworth was a co-author of the Human Development Report, whose Human Development Index measures countries not by economic power, but by factors like standard of living, education, and life expectancy.”
StarTalk Radio
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Venus revealed
Discussed“So that book was called 'Venus Revealed.' There you go, okay.”
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Earth in Human Hands
Recommended“uh my favorite Dr Funky spoon book If I recall correctly uh is Earth in human hands because it's all about how we are shaping this planet and if you want to know some great information about climate change and the anthropocene you should check out that book”
