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Books podcasts were talking about in March 2023
Discussions in March 2023 covered childhood nostalgia, literary classics, economic markets, and psychological frameworks. On The Diary Of A CEO, Alex Cooper recalled childhood memories of reenacting scenes from Lauren Weisberger's 'The devil wears Prada'. Literary and historical analysis also appeared on The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, where Dr. Peterson referenced Henri F. Ellenberger's 'The Discovery Of The Unconscious' as a foundational text for clinical psychology. On The Jordan Harbinger Show, Jordan Harbinger discussed Martin Seligman's 'Authentic Happiness' and its conclusions regarding childhood events and adult well-being. SmartLess featured Keanu Reeves recalling Arthur Miller's play *The Crucible* and a formative line that influenced his early career. Economic and market structures took center stage on Freakonomics Radio, which featured Amy Finkelstein discussing her co-authored book 'Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to Do About It' alongside forthcoming administrative data resources. Finally, This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von touched on motivational literature when Theo Von mentioned watching videos inspired by David Goggins's memoir 'Can't Hurt Me'.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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The devil wears Prada
Discussed“Like, I laugh now because I didn't even put it together, but I would force all my friends—all my soccer friends—to participate in like making videos with me, and we rewrote The Devil Wears Prada. And you would think immediately of what I'm telling you, like, who would I play?”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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Study Guide
Discussed“And, you know, um, they didn't end up canceling my book, which, you know, I don't regard precisely as a favor.”
Speaker The ESG Dragon and the State Treasurers | Derek Kreifels | EP 344 2023-03-30 Listen at 20:46 -
The Discovery Of The Unconscious
Discussed“The master document on that front is a book by Henri Ellenberger titled 'The Discovery of the Unconscious,' which is an outstanding analysis of clinical endeavor over the past 350 years.”
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Maps of Meaning
Discussed“First of all, when I wrote my book 'Maps of Meaning,' I analyzed the structure of redemptive stories. Your life is a redemptive story if you're fortunate because you have a lot of trouble in your life and yet you plow through and take care of that trouble.”
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Otherhood
Discussed“I received an email this morning from Melanie Notkin, who has written a book called 'Otherhood,' and she summarized this issue succinctly, stating that women are pursuing education and career paths, ultimately hoping to find love and have families.”
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The Population Bomb
Discussed“And just by the way, I should call this out: Ehrlich set up an organization, uh, author of the Population Bomb, of course, called ZPG, which evolved into your population growth.”
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The Tower of Babel
Discussed“So what happens immediately after the flood in the Genesis narrative is the emergence of the Tower of Babel. You could think about it as an antidote to the flood: too much chaos—what will we do? Well, we'll build a tower of technological artifacts that stretches to the sky so that we won’t need God.”
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The pilgrim's progress
Discussed“It's Pilgrim's Progress; it's the hero going out looking for the Grail, fighting dragons and monsters, and then you realize when you get to the end it wasn't about the Grail at all.”
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The imitation of Christ
Discussed“Dive deep into scripture and the second most read Christian book of all time, the imitation of Christ. You'll learn how to become a better individual through prayer, fasting, and giving in spite of today's broken world.”
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The Book of Dragons
Discussed“They're telling very small lies, just like in the Dragon book. You can catch them, because otherwise the system will correct itself.”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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Authentic Happiness
Discussed“You noted in 'Authentic Happiness' in one of your many books that childhood events rarely influence adult levels of happiness. Did I get that right?”
SmartLess
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The Crucible
Discussed“One of the first plays I ever did was The Crucible, and one of the lines is, 'Because it is my name, I can have no other.' And I just thought that was running through my head.”
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The Lord of the Rings
Discussed“Yeah, like from Darby O'Gill and the Little People. I mean, the Lord of the Rings used it too.”
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Big History
Discussed“Yeah, you were watching a series of videotapes at the time; I think it was the DVDs, a box set of it was called Big History!”
Freakonomics Radio
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Risky Business
Discussed“She is the co-author of a new book called 'Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to Do About It.'”
Speaker “Insurance Is Sexy.” (Discuss.) | Freakonomics Radio | Episode 537 2023-03-23 Listen at 0:31 -
Handbook on Using Administrative Data for Research and Evidence-based Policy
Discussed“No, so this book that's coming out this summer, again with Lauren Einav, is precisely this question of, 'Oh my God, problems in health insurance markets seem so intractable.'”
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The Economics of Airlines
Discussed“Economist Vladimir Blotkatch, author of The Economics of Airlines, says that by some estimates, each new generation of jet engines has been about 20 percent more fuel-efficient than the previous one.”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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Can't Hurt Me
Discussed“Sorry, man, I've been watching some David Goggins videos. I think I was trying to bring you back, dude!”
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A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle
Discussed“Yeah, exactly, that's like some Game of Thrones stuff. Dude, oh, it's heartbreaking, man.”
Monday Morning Podcast
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Discussed“Turks and Caicos, I can't, literally no, The Count of Monte Cristo, it's all I got.”
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When Giants Walked the Earth
Discussed“I’m dying up here to be the man, you gotta beat the man! The Ric Flair autobiography! When Giants Walk the Earth Rocks!”
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Texas Flood
Discussed“The Beastie Boy book! Texas Flood, the Stevie Ray Vaughan story! Um, Bill Walsh, Finding The Winning Edge!”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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Intuitive Fasting
Discussed“Make sure you check it out, and he is the New York Times best-selling author of Intuitive Fasting, The Inflammation Spectrum, and the brand new book, Gut Feelings: Healing the Shame-Fueled Relationship Between What You Eat and How You Feel.”
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The Inflammation Spectrum
Discussed“Make sure you check it out, and he is the New York Times best-selling author of Intuitive Fasting, The Inflammation Spectrum, and the brand new book, Gut Feelings: Healing the Shame-Fueled Relationship Between What You Eat and How You Feel.”
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Greatness Mindset
Discussed“Lewis was recognized by the White House and President Obama as one of the top 100 entrepreneurs in the country under 30, and his new book is right here.”
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Mask of Masculinity
Discussed“You wrote your first book, The School of Greatness, and your second book, The Mask of Masculinity.”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Free Will
Discussed“As the host of the "Making Sense Podcast," creator of the Waking Up App, and the author of many seminal books on human nature and the human mind, including "The End of Faith," "The Moral Landscape," "Lying," "Free Will," and "Waking Up," he has had a significant impact.”
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The Godfather
Discussed“Well, there's this quote from The Godfather that I wrote down; I recently re-watched it. From Don Corleone, Vito Corleone: "The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other."”
Huberman Lab
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The Circadian Code
Discussed“Those books include 'The Circadian Code' and a more recent book, 'The Circadian Diabetes Code,' both of which we've provided links to in the show note captions.”
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The Circadian Diabetes Code
Discussed“Those books include 'The Circadian Code' and a more recent book, 'The Circadian Diabetes Code,' both of which we've provided links to in the show note captions.”
ChooseFI
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The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
Discussed“His most recent one was called The Premonition about the pandemic, and it's incredible, it's very good, but the one I just finished was the one about Silicon Valley called The New New Thing.”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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James Watson & Francis Crick
Discussed“So a really disruptive paper, like Watson and Crick's seminal work that showed that DNA was in the form of a double helix, is really disruptive because all the models people proposed before them suddenly become irrelevant, and nobody will cite those papers anymore—so that's really disruptive research.”
