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Books podcasts were talking about in May 2023
In May 2023, podcasts featured several notable book recommendations spanning memoirs, culinary guides, and historical accounts. On Conversations with Tyler, Seth Godin discussed foundational cooking texts that shaped his approach, including Chris Schlesinger's The Thrill of the Grill and Tom Colicchio's Think Like a Chef. Historical non-fiction drew attention as Ben Gilbert recommended Walter Boyne's Beyond the Horizons on Acquired to illustrate the history of Lockheed, while on The Megyn Kelly Show, Jason Redman highlighted Hampton Sides's In the Kingdom of Ice as a study in resilience and endurance during a polar trek. Autobiographies also featured prominently when Malcolm Gladwell praised Mick Fleetwood's Fleetwood My Life and Adventures on This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von, and Steven Bartlett recommended Edward Enninful's memoir A Visible Man on The Diary Of A CEO as an inspiring story of breaking barriers in the fashion industry. Additionally, Rich Roll mentioned Neil Strauss's The Truth on The Rich Roll Podcast while exploring the complexities of modern non-monogamy.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Material Girls
Discussed“she wrote a book uh in 2021 called Material Girls why reality matters for feminism and it was critical of this crazed ideology we've been discussing”
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The Gender Wheel
Critiqued“and we're we're sending our kids that the child not be exposed to gay porn in the form of gender queer by Maya kababi”
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It Takes a Village
Discussed“it's always the leftists who tell us it takes a village that's the title of Hillary Clinton's Memoir”
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The Trident
Discussed“I remember I read from your book your opening line was um hi I'm Jay How you doing can I buy you a drink I cringed at my lack of wit and charm and the weakest pickup line ever What the hell That's the best I've got”
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Overcome
Discussed“This is from um from your book uh when you when you were talking to gill who was the one who was answering the questions for you uh your wife has been notified I spoke to her myself I try to not I want to thank him but the trach of my wired job preclude that Gil then adds a”
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A Treatise Explanatory of a New System of Naval, Military and Political Telegraphic Communication of General Application, in which a Comprehensive Numerical Dictionary ... Es Applied
Recommended“I just finished reading this book called Kingdom of ice by hand from sides and it is about the Trek to the North Pole in I believe 1779”
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In the kingdom of ice
Recommended“I just finished reading this book called Kingdom of ice by hand from sides and it is about the Trek to the North Pole in I believe 1779”
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Tucker
Discussed“ladies uh we are getting more flavor on why Tucker Carlson was fired from Fox News courtesy of the man writing a biography an authorized biography of him called Tucker I did not know this was happening but it's coming out in July and um this man Chadwick Moore who has been on Tucker's show in the past took to”
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Rigged
Discussed“okay we read Molly Hemingway's book rigged in 2020 what are they going to do this time because we now have seen a pattern of multiple elections where the American Democrat regime is willing to use government and corporate power to try to interfere with our elections”
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Females
Discussed“in 2019 choose first book females was published by Verso press”
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Fatal Conveniences
Recommended“he is author of the new book fatal conveniences of the toxic products and harmful habits that are making you sick and the simple changes that will save your health which is out next week but available for pre-order now”
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Rezerva by Printul Harry, Spare-Prince Harry, ROMANIAN language book, 2023
Critiqued“Having purposefully avoid avoided all of the flat from Harry's awful hateful automography spare”
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blue ocean strategy
Recommended“Blue Ocean strategy some will say is the greatest marketing book ever written. if you've never read it you have to read it that sold five and a half million copies and it's known as a top 10 best business books of all time I expect everybody that works for me to read this book phenomenal book”
Conversations with Tyler
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The Song of Significance
Discussed“Seth Godin is the author of 21 international bestsellers that have changed the way people think about work. His books have been translated into 38 languages.”
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The thrill of the grill
Recommended“Um so for me, cooking changed when my wife uh got me a cooking class with Chris Schlesinger who wrote the book Thrill of the Grill.”
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Think Like a Chef
Recommended“But after that I bought a few foundational books, Think Like a Chef, some books from Alice Waters, uh Daniel Leader's groundbreaking books on baking.”
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Jump-Starting America
Discussed“I'm a big fan of your book jump starting America about science and science policy it's with Jonathan Gruber”
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Vanishing Asia : Three Volume Set
Discussed“my favorite creation of yours probably is this three volume set it's called Vanishing Asia if I understand correctly it was a 50-year project based around roughly 200 000 photos it's three volumes it's one of the greatest picture books ever produced possibly the greatest”
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Europe Through the Back Door
Discussed“there was this um guy named Rick Steves who was self-publishing a book about Europe Europe the back door”
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South-East Asia on a Shoestring
Discussed“and there was um Tony and Maureen wheeler who had a little stapled book called Lonely Planet shoestring guy to the southeast Asia and I was importing them my little catalog”
Stuff You Should Know
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Baby Rube's Opposites (A Rube Goldberg Book)
Discussed“his granddaughter who wrote a book about him um her name was Jennifer or is Jennifer George her book is the art of Rube Goldberg”
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Jogging
Discussed“he published a pamphlet kind of based on stuff Arthur lydiard had been talking about and then eventually wrote this book that I remember seeing on in houses of like friends of mine really for sure uh it was uh it was a very big book it was called jogging colon even back then a physical fitness program for all”
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Jim Fixx's Second Book of Running
Discussed“there was another guy who really brought jogging to the masses his name was Jim fix he wrote The Complete Book of running released in 1977 and there was a proselytizer for running if there ever was one it was him get your fix yeah and he ironically died while jogging”
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Aerobics
Discussed“he said I think aerobics is being sold short so he wrote a book in 1968 called aerobics and he said you know running and walking and biking is what people should be doing and that's that was his idea of aerobics at the time”
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Jane Fonda's workout book
Discussed“and the next year she set up her own studio um I think a couple years later she published Jane Fonda's workout book which became an extremely popular bestseller it was number one on the non-fiction list and stayed there for six months by the way two million books”
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Wicked
Discussed“uh I heard a story one day about a new musical based on a book uh Wicked and I know we all know this musical now about The Wizard of Oz”
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Poplorica
Discussed“Patrick kyger wrote a book like 18ish years ago called poplorica colon a popular history of the fads Mavericks inventions and lore that shaped modern America yeah and I think did such a good job with the smell-o-vision section that uh L.A times writer Martin J Smith again like 17 or 18 years ago wrote an article about some elevation”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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A Bright Future
Discussed“oh I I read a book I read a review of book review in the in the New York Times of all things in about uh Joshua goldstein's book with Stephen cavist the Swedish nuclear Zionist and it was called bright future I bought the book read it it's very practical it's simple and it goes into the truth which”
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Mark Greaney's Gray Man Series: Books 1-3
Discussed“...that's one of the things that a friend of mine told me and it's actually in a book It's one in one of the grey Men books that those T those tasers are like especially the personal ones that people have...”
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Let's Get It On!
Discussed“...and then you say uh I look at Big John I say do you believe that nose bone into the brain thing he wrote that in his book That's a he goes no...”
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Kerik and Valya
Recommended“...and now I know why I read the you know the the stolen Focus book for Yan Harry you know that's a really good book by and he says you know it's because in fighting my mind would be calm because my ADD I'm all over the place...”
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A primate's memoir
Discussed“are you aware of Robert sapolski's work with uh baboons no sapolsky uh spent a lot of time in embedded with baboons and one of the things that he observed that's incredibly unusual is is there was a group of baboons that was eating food that was in uh garbage that was from I believe it was a resort and”
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On War
Discussed“and uh it's Carl and klauschwitz who wrote on war said the most important attribute of a battlefield leader is common sense”
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Brian Moore Fonds
Discussed“but some of those conversations that I've had in the books I've read have made it into the pages of the novel so there's all this this overlap to include this one uh Brian Moore has a book called The able archers and it talks about a nuclear exchange that almost happened between the United States and the Soviet Union”
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The Accidental Superpower
Recommended“but on their flight over there I read uh his book accidental superpower and that one very clearly predicts a Russian invasion of Ukraine by the year 20 22 and that was back in 2014 he wrote that”
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Undisputed Truth
Discussed“and it was uh kind like my version of Undisputed Truth which is the Mike Tyson play”
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Brother Sam's Universal Joke Book
Recommended“Well Sam had uh did you ever read his uh brother Bill his book yeah brother Sam book's called Brother Sam”
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Discussed“remember that novel uh the restaurant at the end of the Galaxy um what happened in that novel was the aliens of the future created a supercomputer to calculate The Theory of Everything the ultimate Theory so the computer it chugged and chugged and spit out the answer and the answer was the meaning of the universe was 42.”
Acquired
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Beyond the Horizons
Recommended“I also highly recommend a book called beyond the horizons which is hard to find and most people don't know about by Walter Boyne”
My First Million
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Awakening the Buddha Within
Discussed“I said give me some some fun anecdotes about them and they said the thing about the the books said he buys uh thousands of copies of uh of his favorite books one is like Awakening the Buddha within and gives it to his employees”
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Mugglenet.com's Harry Potter Should Have Died
Discussed“When he's 18, he publishes a best-selling book. His best-selling book is called uh I think it's called Harry Potter Should Have Died. Controversial views from the number one fan site. And basically it's like, "Harry survived, but should he have? Uh you know, I run the world's biggest fan site for Harry Potter, and here's some of the controversial”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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Fleetwood My Life and Adventures
Recommended“I had just read Mick fleetwood's autobiography which is one of the great autobiographies of all time”
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Soul Boom
Discussed“Anyways, I talk about it in my book because I feel like it's a metaphor for spirituality. In spirituality, we're walking around the crazy chaotic old West that’s aggressive and violent.”
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City
Discussed“there was a book a science fiction book I read well I used to read the last science fiction it was called City by Clifford DC Mac”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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Manhood
Discussed“today I'm speaking once again with constitutional lawyer Missouri Senator and best-selling author Josh Hawley we discuss his new book manhood exploring the structural significance of biblical tradition within people's lives”
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Systemantics
Discussed“I once read an engaging book titled 'Systemantics' by John Gall, containing aphorisms about how systems function. One memorable aphorism was, 'The system does not do what its name suggests.'”
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Hitler's Table Talk
Discussed“Now, one of the things I learned, for example, I read a book called 'Hitler's Table Talk,' and it was transcripts of his spontaneous discussions over meal times over about a three-year period. I was very interested in the psychology of contempt and derision, and Hitler never used language that was associated with fear in relationship to the Jews.”
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Colonialism
Discussed“All right, so there are eight chapters in the book and you associated each of the chapters with a question. I thought we would just go through the chapters and the questions.”
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Hitler's Table Talk
Discussed“one of the things I learned for example I read a book called Hitler's table talk and it was uh transcripts of his spontaneous discussions over meal times”
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What is Life?
Discussed“The first person who figured this out technically was probably Erwin Schrödinger, who wrote a book called 'What is Life?' He described life essentially as a continual attempt to constrain entropy to a certain set of parameters.”
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Consciousness
Recommended“I'm a big fan of the user losing by uh by yeah that's a great book yeah you've been that's a great book man yeah right so it's been now Consciousness I think I I it's a classic I read it once a year just to wake myself up because it it's so rich”
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Irreversible Damage
Discussed“With any luck, books like yours along with Shrier's and others will continue to decimate the arguments made on gender transition, especially for minors.”
EconTalk
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Ergodicity
Discussed“and if I would put the biggest lesson of this book into uh a single phrase it would be you only get the average if you're allowed to continue to play”
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Cyrano de Bergerac
Discussed“I don't think on the program, but the play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand is um is what that's about.”
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Nanosystems
Discussed“For those not watching on YouTube, it's a copy of a book called Nanosystems. Uh but for those who are um listening at home rather than watching at home, Eliezer, tell us why that's significant.”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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The Truth
Recommended“I'm friends with Neil Strauss he wrote a whole book about it called the truth like you know read that book and you'll you know you'll get a heavy dose of you know what the reality of that looks like”
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The Happiness Equation
Recommended“the happiness equation is the book that goes deeper into the happiness stuff that we talked about his podcast”
SmartLess
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Among the Thugs
Discussed“I've done that a few times—for me, Twitter—Bill Buford called 'Among the Thugs,' which is about— I don't know if you've read about that!”
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Perry Mason
Discussed“They went back to the origin story in the books, which was 1930s LA, which to me was, you know, with Chinatown and everything else for such was so alluring, and, and, and as a kid growing up watching old movies, I was like, oh my God, I get to wear a fedora and you do an American accent?”
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Rebel without a Crew
Discussed“Um, Robert Rodriguez had written a book about making El Mariachi for seven thousand dollars, and again this contributed to that craze that was going on at the time.”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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A Visible Man
Recommended“your book is incredible it's a very important book that I think is um thank you it tells a story and as I call it an impossible story of a young kid from Ghana that gets to the very top and becomes the first black editor in British folks history”
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The Mindbody Prescription
Discussed“I don’t know if you’ve read 'The Mind-Body Prescription.'”
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Great Sex Starts At 50
Discussed“you're not they're not, you know, your book here says great sex starts at 50.”
ChooseFI
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The two-income trap
Discussed“and Brad the final part of this episode that I thought we should just take a few minutes and talk about was actually his reference to the book by Elizabeth Warren the two income trap”
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Quit Like a Millionaire
Discussed“we're going to be speaking with Christy shin and Bryce Le young with their new book quit like a millionaire”
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How to win customers
Recommended“number three I think the best book that I ever read was how to win customers and keep them for life”
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How to win customers and keep them for life
Recommended“number three I think the best book that I ever read was how to win customers and keep them for life”
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The Real Crash
Discussed“I don't normally call people out by name but I do specifically remember reading his book Crash and then I think there's like a crash 2.0 like I think this guy didn't just call the 2008 recession”
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Wisdom from Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Discussed“well the reason is because the Rich Dad Poor Dad book is written exactly for people like me over educated in lots of ways but with no clue about financial education my my parents were teachers”
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Better Than Before
Discussed“so that led me to Habit formation and I wrote a book called better than before that was all about the 21 strategies that we can use to make or break our habit”
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The four tendencies
Discussed“having now read the four tendencies that Brad and many other people's recommendations I can tell you that I think this is it I think this is the missing piece”
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The Success Principles
Recommended“my second book is the success principles by Jack Canfield which I read when I didn't know what to do with my life”
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The millionaire real estate investor
Recommended“I'm gonna say the millionaire real estate investor because that is a great first book to read if you are exploring the idea of investing in real estate”
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Internal time
Recommended“so anyway so you should read the book internal Time by till ronenberg because it makes that case and it goes through all the data about how teenagers”
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Bad Feminist
Recommended“there's a brilliant author her name is Roxanne gay in her book bad feminist remember she wrote this quote that I always I always reference she says we are a mass of contradictions”
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Dollars and Sense
Book club“hello and welcome to choose A5 today on the show we have another episode of our book club today we're reading dollars and cents how we miss think money and how to spend smarter by Dan ariely and Jeff kriesler”
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The One Week Budget
Discussed“so in my book when we budget the last chapter I added at the last minute it was about digging your way out of debt and I told the story in that last chapter”
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The Street Lawyer
Discussed“Brad I was recently reading a book uh it's an old book now but it's aged incredibly well it's called the street lawyer it's a John Grisham fiction novel about this lawyer that works with a big firm in DC and due to a Awakening A really horrific event that happened uh he decided to leave the corporate firm and”
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Outwitting the devil
Recommended“uh outwitting the Devil by Napoleon Hill it's a fantastic book”
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How to Be Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable
Recommended“I've been reading this book by a guy named Ben Aldridge so I heard him on Dominic cortuccio you know multiple time uh guest here on shoesify he has a podcast called the great man within and this book is called how to be comfortable with being uncomfortable 43 weird and wonderful ways to build a strong resilient mindset”
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Teach and Retire Rich
Recommended“my favorite book has to be teach and retire Rich by Dan otter PhD and he is updating that book as we speak the 2020 version is coming out with new limits and up-to-date information”
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Tipped
Discussed“as you do in your book what are the categories who uh because I'm stumbling over it every single time I say it so yeah sip stands for service industry I shortened it in the book just because I could not continue to write it over and over again”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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How to Build a Pipe Bending Machine
Recommended“There's a wonderful series of books by Gingery. Book one is how to make a charcoal furnace.”
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From slavery to freedom
Discussed“One is the continuing story of racism, which is an awful story; but the other story is encapsulated in the title of a great book of history by John Hope Franklin, From Slavery to Freedom.”
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The Tyranny of Merit
Discussed“Of course, there's, I guess, a colleague of yours, Michael Sandel, with 'Tyranny of Merit.'”
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Nigger
Discussed“How does one explain the fact that he wrote several memoirs, but his first memoir is called "Nigger."”
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For Discrimination Race Affirmative Action And The Law
Discussed“You wrote a book on the topic, Titled "For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative, Action, and the Law."”
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Race, crime, and the law
Discussed“You wrote a book on the topic, Titled "For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative, Action, and the Law."”
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Carbon Queen
Discussed“If I could just mention that you interviewed Mildred Dresselhaus of "Carbon Queen: The Remarkable Life of the Nanoscience Pioneer." Is there something you could say about the magic of carbon and the magic of Millie?”
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Recommended“Now let me leave you with some words from Douglas Adams in 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy': 'Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly 92 million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose”
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The shadow university
Discussed“"Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses: The Shadow University". A book you co-authored with Alan Charles.”
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Free speech for me--but not for thee
Discussed“And he wrote a fabulous book called, "Free Speech For Me, But Not For Thee". And he was an absolutist and I'm with Nat Hentoff.”
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The Kingdom
Discussed“I recently read Bradley Hope's new book about North Korea, and it's really about an activist who doesn't even really matter, but in the background of the book, it's written, much of what is written about happens during the Trump era.”
Behind the Bastards
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The Influence of Soros
Discussed“There's a great book called The Influence of Soros, Politics, Power, and the Struggle for an Open Society by Emily Tempin, who did a lot of really great work like interviewed Soros, interviewed an enormous number of the people who were around him.”
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Death of the Territories
Discussed“with Bruno Vince senior pioneered a strategy totally new to the field and I'm going to quote now from a book called death of the territories by Tim hornbaker”
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Anarchism and the Black Revolution
Discussed“Yeah, so I I've read Anarchis in the Black Revolution, which I really enjoy. I I've listened to not all of but like a pretty good amount of the Black Autonomy podcast”
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Sex, lies, and headlocks
Discussed“And I'm going to quote now from a book called Sex, Lies, and Headlocks.”
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Wrestling Babylon
Discussed“I want to read a book a quote from the book Wrestling Babylon by Irv Muchnick right now.”
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The Man Who Broke Capitalism
Discussed“and i'm in a quote from the man who broke capitalism by david gels again here one analyst asked how the price for copper would impact earnings in the next quarter”
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In search of excellence
Discussed“the death knell of the golden age of capitalism was heralded by books about business that started to get really popular like in search of Excellence by Thomas Peters and Robert Waterman Jr”
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The Tate Bible
Discussed“so the book that we're going to be reading for the rest of our episode today is called the Tate Bible uh it was published in 2022 and was written by Andrew Tate”
The Book Review
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Lucky Jim
Discussed“Martin Amos was wellknown almost from birth in in England the literary scene because his father was Kings leus the very wellknown the great comic Masterpiece he wrote lucky Jim it appeared in 1954”
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London Fields
Discussed“it was Amos it was London Fields and money the Rachel papers I think is a bad early dating book together”
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The Moronic Inferno
Discussed“in his early days he was much more harsh but in the 80s he has this collection called the moronic Inferno which he has a genre which barely exists anymore which I would call a hatchet job profile”
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The Information
Discussed“one of my favorite novels of his is the information from 1995 which is about two Waring writers best friend close friends one of whom become successful the other does not and about the moral social intellectual Agony that results”
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House of Meetings
Discussed“i just reread House of meetings which takes place in a a goog stess goog and there's humor in there too it's a very Bleak kind of humor but it's laced throughout his work”
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Einstein's Monsters
Discussed“another book that I think is underappreciated of his which I like precisely because it's more of a genre work is Einstein's monsters which is a collection of short stories which I think he would probably say is wasn't very ambitious”
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Night Train
Recommended“you know I kind of like Night Train which is this weird crime detective thing he wrote and it's got this insinuating thing about it”
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Coraline
Discussed“Coraline which I think people have seen the film of”
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The Graveyard Book
Discussed“and then the graveyard book which I believe is on the New York Times best seller list for more than a year”
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Anansi Boys
Discussed“so he's done one that was considered a slight spin-off of American Gods called a Nancy boys which takes these Caribbean folk tales and builds upon them into a story”
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Good Omens
Discussed“I actually Came Upon good omen first which is his first novel but he co-wrote it with Terry pratchet who English mythology fans will know from his discor series”
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Neverwhere
Discussed“neverwear which is another one of his books is sort of an urban fantasy”
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Death of an Author
Discussed“Dwight is here to talk about death of an author a book he recently reviewed that was largely written with the assistance of artificial intelligence which is a weird thing”
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Stardust
Recommended“I would have to say Stardust which to me brings to mind The Princess Bride that kind of light fairy tale stuff but it's got a little bit of an edge to it”
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Recommended“so if you want a really concentrated dose of Neil Gaiman I would go with the ocean at the end of the lane which is a very slim book”
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Quietly Hostile
Recommended“so uh Samantha irvy who is a hysterical essayist has a new book coming out called quietly hostile”
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The Ferryman
Recommended“another big book is the fairy Man by Justin Cronin”
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How to End a Story
Recommended“so one book that I just finished is the last volume of Diaries by an Australian novelist named Helen Garner... this last volume it's called how to end a story”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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Labyrinths
Recommended“A Hundred Years of Solitude, if someone hasn't read that, Borges' Labyrinths, Toni Morrison's Beloved, essentially anything by Faulkner, The Bear is a great one.”
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The Bear
Recommended“A Hundred Years of Solitude, if someone hasn't read that, Borges' Labyrinths, Toni Morrison's Beloved, essentially anything by Faulkner, The Bear is a great one.”
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The Last Policeman
Recommended“And there's a great book that I loved called The Last Policeman. I'm not sure I'd say it's a great book. It's a great concept, and I really loved reading it.”
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Song of Increase
Recommended“And he started talking to me about the bees, and he told me the story of Jacqueline Freeman's Song of Increase. And The Song of Increase is just such a great Tim Ferriss story.”
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Let's Get Real or Let's Not Play
Recommended“Mahan Khalsa has written a book called Let's Get Real or Let's Not Play about B2B selling. But the lesson of Let's Get Real or Let's Not Play is simple.”
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Secrets of Closing the Sale
Recommended“The stories in the book Secrets of Closing the Sale are gold.”
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See You at the Top
Recommended“And his original classic See You at the Top, also filled with stories.”
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Luxury
Discussed“And there's a book called How Luxury Lost Its Luster, so a lot of alliteration, which I read a long time ago.”
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ABC Letter Tracing Practice Workbook for Kids
Discussed“It says ABC Letter Tracing Practice Workbook for Kids.”
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Japanese Death Poems
Discussed“Japanese Death Poems. Let's talk about Japanese Death Poems.”
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Three Simple Lines
Recommended“There's a great poem about haiku and about the masters called Three Simple Lines.”
StarTalk Radio
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Philosophical essays
Discussed“He wrote an essay called ‘Mysticism and Logic’ where he discusses the battle between intuition and intellect, and the point is—we now have these skills; we are intellectually equipped to apply the scientific method and determine if things are real or fake, yet we're not using it as well as we could be!”
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Mysticism and Logic
Discussed“very thoughtful very deep thinker and his book on mysticism and logic I mean it's an essay but he describes this battle between intuition and intellect”
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Logic and Knowledge
Discussed“very thoughtful very deep thinker and his book on mysticism and logic I mean it's an essay but he describes this battle between intuition and intellect”
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Fire and Ice
Discussed“She's written two books: Catching Stardust, which I love, and Fire and Ice, of which a paperback edition is coming out very soon.”
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Catching stardust
Recommended“She's written two books: Catching Stardust, which I love, and Fire and Ice, of which a paperback edition is coming out very soon.”
The Ezra Klein Show
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The Secret of Our Success
Discussed“his 2015 book The Secret of our success argued that what sets human beings apart from other species is our capacity for cultural learning”
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The WEIRDest People in the World
Discussed“his 2020 book the weirdest people in the world takes that argument and extends it arguing that beginning sometime in the Middle Ages certain cultural and really religious shifts radically transformed the psychologies of individuals living in Europe”
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Guns, Germs and Steel
Recommended“I still think everybody should read Jared Diamonds Guns Germs and Steel”
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Under Pressure
Discussed“so a couple years back you wrote this book under pressure and I want to read a quote from it”
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Psychoanalytic diagnosis
Recommended“a book I go back to again and again was written by another psychologist Nancy McWilliams it's called psychoanalytic diagnosis”
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Transcendent Kingdom
Recommended“personally I actually just finished a book called Transcendent Kingdom by yeah Jesse a novel beautiful but a neuroscientist”
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Nine Ladies
Recommended“it's a fiction book called Nine ladies and it is Pride and Prejudice meets Outlander”
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Kindly inquisitors
Recommended“my second book it's an old book but I just love of it and I think it's it's important right now is Jonathan Roush kindly inquisitors”
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Let Them In
Recommended“and my last book is a book called let them in by Jason Reilly and Riley is a conservative and it's also it's not it's not a new book”
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The High Sierra
Discussed“and it's right there in the title The High Sierra a love story this is his love story”
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The Overstory
Discussed“that's in many ways the point of Richard Powers the overstory being in big mountains”
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Time for Socialism
Discussed“one of his books one of his most recent books called time for socialism well between that and the Dalai Lama saying I love socialism I was kind of startled”
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The Knowledge Machine
Recommended“I recently wrote a book that if you haven't read it I think you'd really like it called the knowledge Machine by Michael stravins”
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A Brief History of Equality
Recommended“I would say Tomas picaty's latest a brief history of equality”
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The Dawn of Everything
Recommended“and then I think it's interesting to read this last book by David Graber with David wingrow called the um the dawn of everything”
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The Echo Maker
Recommended“I recently reread one of his old novels the echo maker”
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The Philosophical Baby
Discussed“and one of them in particular that I read recently is the philosophical baby which blew my mind a little bit because what she does in that book is show through a lot of experiments and research that there is a way in which children are a lot smarter than adults”
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Metazoa
Recommended“and Peter Godfrey Smith's wonderful book I've just been reading metazoa talks about the octopus and the octopus is very puzzling because the octaves don't have a long childhood and yet they seem to be really smart”
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Mary Poppins
Recommended“and then for older children that same day my nine-year-old who is very into the Marvel Universe and superheroes said could we read a chapter for Mary Poppins which is again something that Grandmom reads and we had a marvelous time reading Mary Poppins and he said you know the book is so much better than the movie and he”
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The children of Green Knowe
Recommended“there's a book called The Children of green no k-n-o-w-e I like this because it's a book about a grandmother and her her grandson and he comes to visit her in this strange old house in the Cambridge Countryside and and gradually it gets to be clear that there are ghosts of the history of this of this house”
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Future of Money - How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance
Recommended“it is prasad's the future of money on the digital future of of money in the world a really great book if you need a guide to understanding a little bit about you know the crypto in crypto”
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God, Human, Animal, Machine
Recommended“and I've recommended it before but Megan ogubin's great book God human animal machine right is sort of all about a lot of the Christian mythology operating in a suburbs away here”
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Psychonauts
Recommended“my second book is the new book by Mike J who's kind of our best drug historian and it's called Psychonauts drugs in the making of the modern mind”
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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The Incredibles
Discussed“It reminds me of that line from syndrome in The Incredibles when everyone is super no one will be”
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Genesis
Discussed“does that come down to some sort of like strict constructionist view of like the Book of Genesis you know where the tree of knowledge and the you know the snake representing the devil tempting Eve with the apple of knowledge and all of that”
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Revelation
Discussed“I think this has more to do with Revelation though than any other book of the Bible like what what are the Prophecies of the end times and how they're coming about”
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Discussed“I think I think they're probably the broad strokes The Raven and whatnot”
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Tamerlane
Discussed“Boston isn't super great to him but it is where he publishes his first work a collection of poems called Tamer Lane and other poems”
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The Raven and Other Poems [adaptation]
Discussed“Boston isn't super great to him but it is where he publishes his first work a collection of poems called Tamer Lane and other poems”
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Midnight Dreary
Discussed“In 2000 John writes a book called Midnight dreary the mysterious death of Edgar Allan Poe and proposes that Poe was murdered”
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Common sense renewed
Discussed“he was apparently aided by a friend of his Robert Merriman who helped publish the common sense renewed book the one that we mentioned in that episode a whole bunch and we actually have a copy of”
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Stranger in a Strange Land
Discussed“mitochondria back in the day was a bacteria so mitochondria is a Stranger in a Strange Land to quote Highland once upon a time it was completely separate from the human body”
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Unsolved Enigmas
Discussed“and we've got a full quote here that comes from one of the Anthology books I mentioned unsolved enigmas which was written by Sam Pilger and Leo Moynihan now I'm not sure if he's related to Bobby Moynihan from Saturday Night Live”
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Usual Cruelty
Discussed“he had a book release party when he released his book called usual cruelty and yeah it's good”
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Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System
Recommended“I can give you guys some other links to put in the bio there's a great book out right now called junk science by Chris fabricant that really shows you how the the junk science is used in our courtrooms”
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You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent
Recommended“Justin Brooks has a book out right now called you might go to prison even though you're innocent”
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Hunt for the Skinwalker
Recommended“even wrote a book on you know hunt for the skinwalker great book it'll get you up to date on what happened there”
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The Vanishing Hitchhiker
Discussed“and we're quite fortunate in that the vanishing hitchhiker Legend was researched extensively by a folklore named John brunvand in the 1980s it led to his book The Vanishing hitchhiker American urban legends and their meanings”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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Power Versus Force
Discussed“I read a book called power versus Force by David Hawkins and down to the examples in the book were some of the examples in the modules”
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The Woman in White
Discussed“The advice you wrote about in The Daily Laws was this: always stick to what makes you strange and weird, and that's surprisingly good advice.”
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Barking Up the Wrong Tree
Recommended“A colleague once told me that I crave clarity. Eric Barker writes a fantastic blog and book of the same name, "Barking Up the Wrong Tree."”
a16z Podcast
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Exponential Organizations 2.0
Discussed“but here we are in 2023 and both of you felt the need to come back and say you know what we want to discuss exponential organizations 2.0”
The Mel Robbins Podcast
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Homecoming
Recommended“Dr. Thema Bryant's brand new book Homecoming: Overcome Fear and Trauma to Reclaim Your Whole Authentic Self. It is a must-read.”
Freakonomics Radio
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Who Gets What - and Why
Recommended“Al Roth has now written a book a really wonderful book I should say it's called who gets what and why the new economics of matchmaking and Market design”
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Protecting Antiquities
Discussed“Wilkening and Kramer eventually wrote a paper called protecting Antiquities a role for long-term leases”
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The conservative heart
Discussed“so my reading of your second to last book the conservative heart was that it was written to help pave the way for the right kind of Republican presidential candidate in 2016”
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Love Your Enemies
Discussed“and then in 2019 you publish a book called love your enemies how decent people can save America from the culture of contempt”
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Official Dopamine Nation Workbook
Recommended“there's a really great Psychiatry professor at Stanford Medical School named Anna Lemke who has a big new book out about dopamine”
This Week in Startups
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Refactoring UI
Recommended“these are polls from refactoring UI which I'd recommend looking at their resources as well”
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Traffic
Discussed“I think because he had taken a huge uh investment like an emergency investment as you probably document in the book”
Huberman Lab
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Winter Swimming
Recommended“In fact, she is the author of a recent book entitled 'Winter Swimming,' which I must say is a terrific book because it breaks down chapter by chapter the different aspects of deliberate heat and cold into its various constituent parts, including cold acclimation, the cold shock response, the dangers and safety of cold water, the impact of cold, and”
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The Frontal Cortex
Recommended“There's a paper that I'll provide a link to in the show note captions. This was published in the Journal Neuron, Cell Press Journal, Excellent Journal, entitled Psilocybin Induces Rapid and Persistent Growth of Dendritic Spines in the frontal Cortex In Vivo.”
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Psychedelic
Recommended“And because I know there are people out there who would like to even more about the neuroplasticity induced by psychedelics, including psilocybin, there's a wonderful review that I provide a link to in the show note captions entitled, Psychedelics and Neuroplasticity: A Systematic Review Unraveling the Biological Underpinnings of Psychedelics.”
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Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience
Discussed“Our lab has written over the years a few review chapters, and we were repeatedly writing the olfaction chapter for a very large textbook, the Gazzan Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience, I think it's called.”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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Moonshots
Recommended“For those listening or watching, grab Naveen's book, 'Moonshots', if you are interested in setting audacious goals and achieving them.”
No Stupid Questions
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Choke
Discussed“there's a research study by Siam bilock who's a scientist as well known as any scientist who's studied choking and wrote a book called choke on the science of high pressure performance in the intervention that she did with a group of colleagues”
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Hit Refresh
Critiqued“One thing that so impressed me: he wrote a book that, I mean, to be honest, wasn't a great book; most books by CEOs aren't great books, but I know this book—which was called Hit Refresh.”
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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Discussed“Then I felt silly about being surprised; it actually came from an extraordinarily popular book called The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey, who was an interesting guy who I didn't really know very much about.”
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Abundance
Discussed“He actually wrote a book called 'Abundance,' and they argue that technology, especially, will just keep solving problems and keep making things better.”
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Doughnut Economics
Discussed“And then there are people like—I think of Kate Raworth, who's a British economist who wrote a book called 'Donut Economics.'”
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Power and Progress
Discussed“He's got a forthcoming book called 'Power and Progress: Our 1,000-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity.'”
Monday Morning Podcast
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Harold
Discussed“I mean a special mind who wrote an incredible new book that is going to be out on May 16th called Harold I actually read the whole thing”
Modern Wisdom
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Mixed Signals
Discussed“wonderful book mixed signals and he talks there's a there's a chapter in the middle and it's a wonderful um coverage of some responses to ill-set incentives”
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The Illusion of Choice
Recommended“so the last episode that we did we managed to get through eight out of 16 and a half psychological biases from your fantastic new book which is now out and people should go and buy right now”
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Mating in Captivity
Discussed“Esther perel has obviously written great books about this she talks about the difference between love and desire desire is love is the coming together of two people desire exists in the space between two people”
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The happiness advantage
Discussed“but you got to get you know as as Sean AER would put it in The Happiness Advantage you have to lower the activation energy required and that can apply for dating too”
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Generation me
Discussed“one of the first ones that you wrote was generation me which was back in 2006. given that you've been tracking my generation for quite a while what are your thoughts or what's the story of how Millennials have done in your opinion”
Big Technology Podcast
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When the Heavens Went on Sale
Discussed“So we're here to talk about your new book, When the Heavens Went on Sale.”
Timcast IRL
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Rainbow six
Discussed“did you ever read Rainbow Six the original Tom Clancy book you've seen the game obviously”
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The City of God
Discussed“and then we get to a part of the book where Saint Augustine is talking about seeing a giant skull on the beach and like giant bones and stuff”
Pod Save America
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Johnson At 10
Discussed“there's this new book out called Johnson at 10. it's about Boris Johnson's time as prime minister um some of the excerpts are unbelievable it says he referred to himself as the fuhrer”