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Books podcasts were talking about in December 2023
December 2023 discussions on prominent podcasts gravitated heavily toward global infrastructure, economic networks, and personal well-being. On The Ezra Klein Show, Chris Miller shared multiple recommendations during a year-end review, highlighting Gilbert Parker's The World for Sale for its look at commodity traders, Jonathan Winkler's Nexus for insights into historical telegraph networks, and Joseph Torigian's Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion to understand Chinese political decision-making. Population trends and philosophy also surfaced when Matt Mullenweg appeared on The Tim Ferriss Show to recommend Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson's Empty Planet regarding global demographic shifts, alongside referencing Will Durant's posthumous book Fallen Leaves. In personal development and health, Ali Abdaal credited Austin Kleon's Show Your Work! on How I Write with helping him overcome impostor syndrome, and Dr. John Delony recommended Dr. Uma Naidoo's Calm Your Mind with Food on The Dr. John Delony Show to connect diet with anxiety management. K. Bannan's book Eve was additionally praised on Freakonomics Radio for its wide-ranging subject matter, tying the month together through systemic examinations of society, politics, and health.
The Tucker Carlson Show
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Catching the Wolf of Wall Street
Discussed“Jordan Belfor The Wolf of Wall Street with a new book The Wolf of investing and he joins us now to explain how you can make a fortune on Wall Street”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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Empty Planet
Recommended“Read this great book Kevin Kelly recommended called Empty Planet, [which] basically says we're not going to have enough people. Population has already peaked in most developed countries.”
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Fallen Leaves
Recommended“This is from Fallen Leaves, which is that posthumous book.”
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The Easy Way to Quit Caffeine
Discussed“Also, before I went to South America, I listened to an audiobook, which was called or is called The Easy Way to Quit Caffeine.”
How I Write
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Show Your Work!
Recommended“but then what show your work taught me is that basically that you don't have to be a genius you don't have to be the guru”
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Little, Big
Discussed“There are some, like John Crowley who wrote Little Big, he's a poet. His stuff takes a long time to warm up.”
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Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
Discussed“I was like, you know what? There's this other piece of advice I got from Safi Bahcall, I think, who wrote a book called Loonshots. Loonshots, yeah. Where he says FBR.”
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Good Vibes, Good Life
Discussed“Good vibes? There was that book by Vex King called Good Vibes, Good Life. And I was like, good vibes, productivity? Maybe that could be.”
Behind the Bastards
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Years of Renewal
Discussed“As Kissinger wrote in his 1999 memoir, Years of Renewal, Barzani's request triggered a flood of communications among US officials focused on two questions.”
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Henry Kissinger and American Power
Discussed“In his book Henry Kissinger and American Power, Schwarz writes, "Kissinger and his brothers saw the progressive segregation, isolation, and humiliation the Jews of FTH experienced.”
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The Power "to Coin" Money
Discussed“In his book Henry Kissinger and American Power, Schwarz writes, "Kissinger and his brothers saw the progressive segregation, isolation, and humiliation the Jews of FTH experienced.”
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The Meaning of History
Discussed“So, a lot of folks who analyze the, uh, the Kissinger in this period sees on one sentence in Kissinger's undergraduate thesis and his thesis is titled the meaning of history”
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Social Anarchism
Discussed“So we both just kind of decided, yeah, we want to read some of these texts and we quickly came upon social anarchism and organization. We thought like, wow, this is a really comprehensive introduction”
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Republican Gomorrah
Discussed“like like he he wrote this book called uh Republican Gomorrah inside the movement that shattered the party which is a pretty good book about the rise of the Christian right and how they sees the Republican party”
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Frames of War
Discussed“In 2016, Butler wrote a book called Frames of War. When is life grievable? And this is a quote from this book. One way of posing the question of who we are in these times of war is by asking whose lives are considered valuable, whose lives are mourned and whose lives are considered ungable.”
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The radium girls
Discussed“It is laid out in gripping detail by author Kate Moore in her book, The Radium Girls. I was like, why do I know that?”
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Quackery
Discussed“and I'm going to quote from the book quackery again here the idea was that ionizing I.E irradiating the endocrine system would increase hormone production”
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A drink with Shane MacGowan
Recommended“You've never read the book 'A Drink with Shane MacGowan'? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.”
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Fashion Victims
Recommended“okay I'm going to recommend this book that I've talked about before were called Fashion Victims by Alice and Matthews David”
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Don't Call it a Cult
Discussed“Sarah, your book is called Don't Call It a Cult. Wonderful book about the Nexium cult. And yeah, you were you are kind of the person who first I'm not sure if you're the very first person to ever report on Twin Flames”
Freakonomics Radio
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Directory of Officers, Faculty, Students, Departments
Recommended“Well, few people cover more ground than K. Bannan and her book 'Eve', so I suspect our email inbox will be quite busy. I'm eager to hear what you think, whether you're an expert in the subject matter or just someone like me who isn't very familiar with the topic but loves to think about new ideas.”
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Going Infinite
Discussed“The thing is, as you read Michael Lewis's book, it's hard to separate Bankman-Fried's illegal behaviors from the ones that were just sloppy or weird.”
No Stupid Questions
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Pain, Parties, Work
Discussed“It's from The Bell Jar.”
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The Bell Jar
Discussed“it's from the Bell jar she said and I'll just read this she said I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree from the tip of every Branch a wonderful future”
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The Emperor's New Drugs
Discussed“I mean, here's the example he gave in, I'm reading his book right now, about how therapists can better understand and create response expectancies. So he tells the story of not liking spicy food.”
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Changing Expectations
Discussed“I mean here's the example he gave in I'm reading his book right now about how therapists can better understand and create response expectancies”
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The Hundred Secret Senses
Discussed“I have absolutely my book club we read the hund secret senses have you read that one oh wait is that a novel”
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Pygmalion
Discussed“whereas pigan is a sculptor whose creation comes to life pigmon is also the name of the N 183 play by George Bernard Shaw that inspired the musical my fair lady”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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Storm in a Teacup
Discussed“It's not exactly a life-changing insight, but one example that you gave in your book 'Storm in a Teacup' that really sticks with me is how to use physics to figure out whether an egg is raw or whether it's been boiled.”
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Blue Machine
Discussed“So a lot of what we’re talking about is coming from your new book; it's called 'The Blue Machine,' and I have to say, when I heard that you were going to write a book about the physics of the ocean, I was skeptical.”
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Every Man for Himself and God Against All
Discussed“Reading his recent memoir entitled 'Every Man for Himself and God Against All,' one can't help but think that Werner Herzog himself isn't so different.”
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Winnie the Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh)
Discussed“In one case, one of the packages contained a book, and it was Winnie the Pooh.”
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Twilight World
Discussed“Then another one of your books that has had a tremendous impact on me, I think about it all the time, it's called 'The Twilight World.' Could you talk a bit about Hero Onoda's story and how you came to know him?”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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Suicide
Discussed“He realizes in his book on suicide, published in 1900, that modern societies, for all their advantages, leads their members of a share of their members, often the most ambitious of their members, to take their own lives.”
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A Therapeutic Journey
Discussed“A therapeutic journey, lessons from the school of life. The Sunday Times best-selling author of The School of Life.”
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Why Calories Don't Count
Discussed“after I read it in your book about us gaining more and more weight his we age”
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The Galveston Diet
Discussed“And so many of them have no education at their fingertips, have nowhere to turn, are, you know, 85% are going in to their health care provider's office complaining, "Help me."”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
Discussed“Eternal Sunshine at the Spotless Mind Right did you ever see this movie”
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The Man in the Brown Suit
Discussed“And it also sort of shows, since it's so fragile, how fragile our economies really are because I've heard the expression 'data is the new oil,' but I think you say in the book, 'The pumps and pipes are all powered by semiconductors.'”
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Jurassic Park
Discussed“What's interesting is that George Church's original work, which I forgot the specifics of, was on yeast or something. But his research shows up in Michael Crichton's book.”
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Three Worlds
Recommended“I would highly recommend you read a book where is it I had it here I will by isra by Israeli historian aish it's called three identities the Memoir of an Arab Jew he is from Iraq”
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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The Incredible Journey of Plants
Discussed“and Manzo wrote a book titled The Incredible Journey of plants”
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The sources of theological knowledge. God. Creation and the supernatural order
Discussed“there's an author named Thomas RoR who created a book called The Invention of God and romor writes that throughout the Levant it was common for pre-islamic bins and Arab communities to carry holy chest that contained two Sacred Stones or the statues of two gods”
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A Translation of John Dee's "Monas Hieroglyphica" (Antwerp, 1564), with an Introduction and Annotations
Discussed“He published something called the monus hieroglyphica the hieroglyphic monad in 1564”
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General and Rare Memorials Pertaining to the Perfect Art of Navigation
Discussed“stuffff like the The Banger hit General and rare memorials pertaining to the perfect art of navigation in 1577”
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The Monster of Florence
Discussed“a true crime story called The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston from the Atlantic”
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Hannibal
Discussed“in Thomas Harris's um sequel to Silence of the Lambs Hannibal was based on”
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Glenn Miller Declassified
Discussed“let's look at the provable stuff with help from the author Dennis sprag uh in his book Glenn Miller Declassified which is considered by far the most exhaustive investigation”
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The trial of Henry Kissinger
Discussed“he wrote a book called The Trial of Henry Kissinger and in this book he says the degree of micromanagement revealed in Kissinger's Memoirs forbids the idea that anything of importance took place without his knowledge or permission”
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The Eccentric Realist
Discussed“there's a guy named Mario Delo a professor of international history and author of The Eccentric realist Henry Kissinger in the shaping of American foreign policy”
Conversations with Tyler
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Wed 21
Discussed“Wed 21 by Juana Molina.”
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Matangi
Discussed“Matangi by M.I.A.”
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My Struggle: Book 2
Discussed“Karl Ove Knausgå, My Struggle Book 2: Man in Love.”
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The woman upstairs
Discussed“Claire Messud, The Woman Upstairs.”
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Orkney
Discussed“Amy Sackville, Orkney.”
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How To Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia
Discussed“Mohsin Hamid, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia.”
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Duplex
Discussed“Kathryn Davis, Duplex: A Novel.”
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Worldly Philosopher
Discussed“Jeremy Adelman, Jeremy Adelman, Worldly Philosopher The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman, obviously a great book.”
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A History Of Future Cities
Discussed“Daniel Brook, A History of Future Cities.”
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Benjamin Britten: A Life For Music
Discussed“I liked Neil Powell, Benjamin Britten: A Life for Music.”
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China's War with Japan, 1937-1945
Discussed“It's called in the US Forgotten Ally.”
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War From the Ground Up
Discussed“Uh moving on, Emile Simpson, War from the Ground Up: 21st Century Combat as Politics.”
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Affordable Excellence
Discussed“William Haseltine, Affordable Excellence: The Singapore Health System.”
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Margaret Thatcher The Authorized Biography
Discussed“Charles Moore, uh Margaret Thatcher biography.”
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The power of glamour
Discussed“From books you say close at hand, you very much like The Power of Glamour by John List, Uri Gneezy and Virginia Virginia Postrel”
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The Rebirth of Education
Discussed“Lant Pritchett, The Rebirth of Education and Tim Harford's uh pop”
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The undercover economist strikes back
Discussed“It was The Undercover Economist Strikes Back was the book in 2013.”
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The Internal Enemy
Discussed“Alan Taylor the internal enemy enemy slavery and war in Virginia 1772 to 1832”
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The Beatles - All These Years
Discussed“Mark Lewisohn Tune In The Beatles All These Years Volume 1”
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Days of Fire
Discussed“Peter Baker Days of Fire Bush and Cheney in the White House.”
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Vodka Politics
Discussed“Mark Lawrence Schrad, Vodka Politics, Alcohol Autocracy and the Secret History of the Russian State.”
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Invitation to a Banquet
Recommended“that's invitation to a banquet the story of Chinese food uh please do buy it read it and I would stress buy all of her books uh you cannot buy just one”
The Dr. John Delony Show
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Calm Your Mind with Food
Recommended“she's got a brand new book out calm your mind with food calm your mind with food”
SmartLess
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Tony Kushner in Conversation
Discussed“so when I I moved to the city the summer before I started and would go to the Performing Arts Library and try to read plays that everybody knew that I didn't know like Tony Kushner plays and that's so cool”
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Plays
Discussed“David mam plays and I watch the performances in the the video library to LOL L Lincoln Center”
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Burn this
Discussed“you know um you know you I know you did burn this in 2019 yeah yeah I did that in College of course I played Larry”
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Caging Skies
Discussed“My mother read this book called Caging Skies and she pitched it to me, she said, you should make this into a movie. And the way she pitched the story to me, I found so funny and I thought this is fantastic!”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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A Wizard of Earthsea
Discussed“Yeah, there’s a book called Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin. It talks about how wizards can turn themselves into dolphins. But the problem is, if you stay a dolphin long enough, you forget that you're a wizard, and you never come back to being a wizard; you just stay out there.”
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Madame Bovary
Discussed“I'm reading a book now called The Dimensions of a Cave, and it's essentially about what things will look like when we are more fully on that digital platform.”
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Osama Bin Laden
Discussed“um Osama Bin Laden letter to America, oh yeah just went viral on Tik Tok people like wait a minute what”
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Crossfire
Discussed“he goes dude there's this book I'm going to give you the book I just finished it Crossfire”
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Scientology
Discussed“and it was I think he initially wrote for like those pulp magazines like science fiction magazines back in the day and then wound up writing dianic ... I see this commercial for um Dianetics ... for years after I ordered that book I don't think I ever read it”
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Going Clear
Discussed“and you know Lawrence Wright covered him and the whole movement pretty extensively in going clear I I read the book and there was a HBO documentary series on going clear all about scientology”
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How to Make Anyone Like You in 7 Seconds or Less
Discussed“I was reading um about the son the Phoenix Sun 7 seconds or less I read a lot of basketball books you know that kind of [ __ ]”
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Men Without Women
Discussed“man these are men without women peruki Mami great stuff”
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Discussed“what I talk about when I talk about running I haven't read that one huh”
The Ezra Klein Show
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The World for Sale, Complete
Recommended“well I'd start with the world for sale which is an extraordinary account of commodity traders who play a unseen role in the middle of the networks that deliver oil and minerals and metals that we require it's sort of a eye-opening view as to to how all the world's raw materials get shipped around the world”
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Nexus
Recommended“a second book I'd recommend which picks up on a lot of the discussions we've had about networks is a book called Nexus by Jonathan Winkler which is a a study of telegraph cables during the early 20th century and what's striking about it is the extent to which all of the world's governments saw telegraph cables as not only”
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Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion
Recommended“and then a third book which was published last year which I strongly recommend is a book on decision-making in China called Prestige manipulation and coercion which is an extraordinary account of high politics in in China over the last half century that illustrates with just a really exceptional archival documentation how how Chinese politics has has shifted and the”
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Coercion
Recommended“and then a third book which was published last year which I strongly recommend is a book on decision-making in China called Prestige manipulation and coercion which is an extraordinary account of high politics in in China over the last half century that illustrates with just a really exceptional archival documentation how how Chinese politics has has shifted and the”
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Full Surrogacy Now
Discussed“now in that book Lewis talks about the family unit as a hostage situation that there are certain compulsions and expectations that come with our life as part of a nuclear family unit that are actually impossible to satisfy”
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Regarding the Pain of Others
Discussed“which reminds me actually um of an idea from the essay of Susan sag um in her book regarding the pain of others a long essay that she wrote she talks about how compassion is an unstable emotion”
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Black Paper
Recommended“so my first recommendation is a book by taju Cole it's called black paper and it's actually a collection of Articles and essays by taju Cole combined with some lectures”
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On the Inconvenience of Other People
Recommended“the title of it is on the inconvenience of other people and in that book Lauren Berlant um from a philosophical angle basically tries to unpack the phrase from SAR that hell is other people”
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The discovery of India
Discussed“in some ways I think the two deep ideas that he had if you read his books like discovery of India and stuff so one was this idea of India”
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India and Asian Geopolitics
Recommended“I think the second book I'd pick is a recent book by shiv Shankar Menan uh the title is India in Asian geopolitics”
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The Back Channel
Recommended“one is Cia director William Bill Burns the back Channel which is Memoirs of an exceptional diplomat but more than that the lessons of the importance of diplomacy the failures not to deploy it and the successes when it is deployed”
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Returning to Haifa
Recommended“the second is a book that is very dear to me called return to haa byan canani who is a Palestinian political and literary giant and the book returned to haa talks about a Palestinian family that goes back to the home from which they were expelled in 1948”
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America as Second Creation
Recommended“one of them is called electrifying America by David E NY it is a 30-year-old history book about the process by which America got electricity and it has been very interesting to read”
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Your Face Belongs to Us
Recommended“the other book I'll recommend is your face Belongs To Us by my colleague our colleague at the Times Kashmir Hill which is about the facial recognition AI company clear viiew Ai”
EconTalk
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Evil
Discussed“one of the most disturbing books I've never finished but it wasn't because it was disturbing and it wasn't because I I I didn't want to read it I did want to read it but I'm just tell I'm just confessing I didn't finish it but it's a book called evil oh and it's by Roy balme”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Atlas: From the Streets to the Ring
Discussed“You wrote in the book that your father had a big influence on your life.”
The Book Review
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
Book club“before then however we have a wonderful conversation about one of the year's big books James McBride's the Heaven and Earth grocery store”
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The color of water
Discussed“I love his Memoir called the color of water which is about growing up in Red Hook as one of 12 born to a black father a white mother who grew up Jewish and converted and literally started a church with her first husband a wild story”
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Ducks
Recommended“first time I came across it really was in a book from last year a graphic novel called Ducks by Kate Beaton”
Pod Save America
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A Taste for Poison
Discussed“I remember early in the year I was talking about how I was reading that book 'Risin' Kill First' about the early days of Israel and the Mossad, too! It gets up to like 2012! But once it got morally ambivalent, I got out!”
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How Democracies Die
Discussed“And I don't think we need to send mail out copies of how democracies die by those two professors. I don't, I don't think, I don't think we can get people to read how democracies die. Yeah, I don't know that, I don't know that mailing copies is a good idea.”
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History of Little Nine Partners
Discussed“But, I've been reading The Nine by Chuck Colman. It's a recent book that's out and it's very good.”
Stuff You Should Know
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The Wreckage of My Presence
Recommended“and you know what I want to shout out uh friend of stuff you should know uh comedian and actor and author Casey Wilson because Casey Wilson has six Christmas trees in her house wowe she's Christmas nuts and they're beautiful and wonderful she has one in her bedroom she loves Christmas and Christmas trees and Casey's awesome uh you”
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The Beanie Baby Phenomenon
Discussed“This woman Peggy Gallagher, she was a parillegal. She made 200 grand on a book that she self-published called The Beanie Baby Phenomenon and then started making, I imagine, a pretty good deal of money as an official, well, not official, but as just an experienced Beanie authenticator.”
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For Esme-With Love and Squalor, and Other Stories
Discussed“I read uh for Esme with love and squalor as recently as last night and that was it”
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For Esme - with Love and Squalor
Discussed“I read uh for Esme with love and squalor as recently as last night and that was it”
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Dream Catcher
Discussed“piggy wrote a a book called dream catcher which you mentioned I think it came out in 2000”
The Ben & Marc Show
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Their Jihad... Not My Jihad!
Discussed“The young man who wrote about it called his book 'My Jihad,' describing how he realized his true struggle was with himself.”
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Life Force
Discussed“as Tony's last book is a book called life force which is h a book all about regenerative medicine and um how to basically live your best healthiest life with the uh best health span possible”
The Daily Stoic
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In praise of idleness
Discussed“so I was rereading um Bertrand Russell's essay In Praise of idleness um where he's basically talking about how this you know this attitude that the modern world inculcates within us”
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Designing Your Life
Recommended“The most helpful exercise I've ever found for this is something called The Odyssey Plan from the book Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and another guy who are Stanford professors. Basically, the idea is that you imagine your life three to five years in the future if you continued down your current path, and you write out what that”
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The Designing Your Life Workbook
Recommended“the most helpful exercise I've ever found for this is uh something called The Odyssey plan from the book designing your life by Bill Bernett is”
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The War of Art
Discussed“No, it’s actually a really great illustration of what Steven Pressfield calls the resistance, right?”
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Clear Thinking
Recommended“It's called Clear Thinking, Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results.”
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The Harder They Fall
Discussed“have you read the harder they fall no it's this novel by bud shulberg”
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Strip Tees
Recommended“i want you to read her amazing new book strip tease a memoir of millennial los angeles”
This Week in Startups
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Westworld
Discussed“and that one that was Michael kon's book Westworld is a movie from it U and then they made it into a TV series and that is like hey here's a real world person going into a scenario with robots”
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Planet of the Apes
Discussed“so if you looked at Planet of the Apes uh you know as a French author did it I think it was in the 60s and you know that was really about um slavery racism”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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Long Day's Journey into Night
Discussed“And I was working on this uh monologue from Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill. And it was this text where like Edmund just finally like goes against his dad”
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Howie the Rookie
Discussed“And I found this play uh called Howie the Rookie. It was like this uh play from Northern Ireland. And it's it's written for two people where the first person is is then featured in the second storyteller's.”
Huberman Lab
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The New England Journal of Medicine
Discussed“famous article from the New England Journal of Medicine 1951 Mount Everest in utero”
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Mastery
Discussed“I first learned about Robert's work from reading the book Mastery, which to my mind is a brilliant exploration and a practical tool for how to think about and pursue one's purpose.”
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Principles of Neural Science
Discussed“it's um uh principles of Neuroscience so I thought that I don't know that one yeah it's a big it makes a better a door stop uh for most than than a book but it's it's a wonderful resource um if you want to learn about neuroscience”
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Longitude
Recommended“I taught it for four years, and one of the books was 'Longitude,' which is a wonderful story about the discovery of timekeeping devices.”
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Principles of Neural Science, Fifth Edition
Recommended“One book I’ll leave as a mystery, not to be mysterious, but because it's a science book; I'll just tell you that it’s 'Principles of Neuroscience.'”
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Five Minds for the Future
Recommended“When you're very young, they direct you towards intellectual and mental pursuits as well, and there's a book I recommend for everybody—it's Howard Gardner's 'Five Frames of Mind.'”
Acquired
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The Dream of Solomeo
Recommended“so it's the dream of salo my life and the idea of humanistic capitalism by brunello cinelli and i had to have him on my list out of you know the 330 entrepreneurs that i've studied for the podcast so far”
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The Invisible Billionaire, Daniel Ludwig
Recommended“and so there's only one book on them and it's this book called The Invisible billionaire Daniel lwig it's a biography of daniel lwig written by jerry shields”
My First Million
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The Shadow Work Journal
Discussed“do you know what the number one book in the world right now do you know what it is it's the shadow work Journal number one book in the world”
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Churchill
Recommended“So I'll give you a book that I I liked this year. Um it's called Have you ever read this? It's called Talk like Churchill, Stand like Lincoln. No, what is that? Uh so I go down these random rabbit holes while I try to get better at let's say storytelling or public speaking or you know, things like that.”
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Dotcom Secrets
Discussed“after I'd read $100 million offers Doom secrets copywriting secrets and we revamped the entire landing page the entire off of the entire product purely based on the advice of what Russell Brunson and Alex hosi have written in their books and just literally following the step-by-step method and that was when a single launch of the course did like”
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Copywriting Secrets: How Everyone Can Use the Power of Words to Get More Clicks, Sales, and Profits...No Matter What You Sell Or Who You Se
Discussed“after I'd read $100 million offers Doom secrets copywriting secrets and we revamped the entire landing page the entire off of the entire product purely based on the advice of what Russell Brunson and Alex hosi have written in their books and just literally following the step-by-step method and that was when a single launch of the course did like”
The Rubin Report
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Unwoke
Discussed“And you have a new book, "Unwoke: How To Defeat Cultural Marxism in America."”
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The Great Mental Models, Volume 1
Discussed“I wasn’t introduced to Chesterton's Fence until, I don’t know, 2016 or even later. Chesterton's Fence is a profoundly important principle.”
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The House of Love and Death
Recommended“The book is 'The House of Love and Death'.”
Timcast IRL
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Battery F, First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery in the Civil War, 1861-1865
Discussed“I think I was talking to stepen Marsh the guy wrote the Civil War book and he's like oh these kids can get it on the internet”
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Pearl Jam - Ten
Discussed“I was therapeutically screaming Pearl Jam 10 the other night doing a release”
Modern Wisdom
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The Female Brain
Discussed“I did this movie that was about it was based on a book called the female brain”
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Discussed“Mark mentioned that once he became rich, he faced all these problems related to status and money, and he realized that the principles in his book—the subtle art of not giving a f***—applied to his current situation.”
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The Power of Now
Discussed“I've been rereading 'The Power of Now,' and it offers such good advice: do things for their own sake.”
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Feel-Good Productivity
Recommended“so your new book feel good productivity everyone needs to go and buy that right now I know you've spent an awful lot of time working on it for a long time”
a16z Podcast
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The Halo
Discussed“a great example is the halo franchise there's an AI companion in that game called quana and she talks to Master Chief comments and what he's doing basically like is a it's a chip that rides in his helmet and he and she tells him where to go next when he's lost and is there from the beginning to the”
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Baldur's Gate 3
Discussed“so uh role playing games like balers Gate 3 have incredibly detailed character Builders where you can customize everything from your skin color”
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Dragons
Discussed“one of the oldest RPGs of all time is Dungeons and Dragons which by definition is a personalized Adventure that is told by a human narrator a dungeon master a game master he basically crafts an improv adventure with you and your group of friends”
StarTalk Radio
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Turning Oil Into Salt Energy Independence Through Fuel Choice
Discussed“There’s a book I read called Turning Oil into Salt, and I forgot the two authors—co-authors of that—where that made a fascinating point.”
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Turning Oil Into Salt
Discussed“There's a book I read called Turning Oil into Salt. And I forgot the the two authors, co-authors of that where that that made a fascinating point”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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The Edge of Knowledge
Discussed“I I even now I'll be walking listening to I just finished u um Lawrence Krauss's book Edge of Knowledge which so like bleeding edge physics and science and philosophy your podcasts and I listen to I listen to a wide range of topics”
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Doom
Discussed“So I was reviewing your book, 'Doom', this morning, and I've been wanting to talk to you about it for a long time.”
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The Confessions
Discussed“The Book of Revelation, for example, are in part attempts to structure our apprehension of what you would call the eternal apocalypse and to also help us determine practically and politically how that might be at least staved off, although perhaps even managed more comprehensively.”
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American Prometheus
Discussed“I should be clear: I haven't watched the movie, but I read the book American Prometheus.”
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The Master of Ballantrae
Discussed“and of course the critical idea which Robert L Stevenson gets at in the master of balant tree and and James hog gets and the Confessions of a Justified sinner is that the elect are the worst people”
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Discussed“and James hog gets and the Confessions of a Justified sinner is that the elect are the worst people”
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The Coddling of the American Mind
Discussed“Because, you know, Jonathan Haidt wrote The Coddling of the American Mind.”
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The Federalist papers
Discussed“We require them to learn about the Federalist Papers, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and all that great stuff.”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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For You When I Am Gone
Discussed“also the author of several books including his latest for you when I am gone 12 essential questions to tell a life story ahead of the seventh night of Hanukkah”
The Shawn Ryan Show
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The Good War
Discussed“there's this book Studs Turkl wrote this war book book called the good war this book about um World War II and he interviewed his oral history interviewed all these famous people senators titans of industry you know all these people that have been fabulously successful and he asked what was the most important thing you did in your career”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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Break Point
Discussed“I'm watching you play all the major tournaments and watching you on breakpoint and I still have to pinch myself that I get to do this”
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Glucose Revolution
Recommended“There's a really good book out there called Glucose Revolution; it's very well written. You can read it in like three to four hours about how to manage your glucose curve.”
ChooseFI
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Your Journey to Financial Freedom
Discussed“and you talked about this in in the book certainly of like where you are Financial Freedom versus Financial Independence”
