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Books podcasts were talking about in February 2024
February 2024 featured discussions across multiple podcasts focusing on understanding human behavior, historical figures, and strategic thinking. On The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett, Steven Bartlett highlighted Dr. Ramani Durvasula's book It's Not You to explore the concept of narcissism. Business strategy and historical analysis also drew significant attention. Packy McCormick appeared on How I Write to discuss Richard P. Rumelt's Good Strategy, Bad Strategy, emphasizing the engaging nature of effective planning, while Howard Marks recommended Peter L. Bernstein's Against the Gods on the same show for its insights into probability and investment philosophy. On The Tim Ferriss Show, Claire Hughes Johnson recommended Fred Kofman's Conscious Business as a rare business title she finished entirely. Historical narratives and investigations were prominent as well. Josh Clark mentioned Ken Silverstein's The Radioactive Boy Scout on Stuff You Should Know, and Robert Evans recommended Allan Nolan's Lee Considered on Behind the Bastards to examine military leadership, alongside recommending the documentary Marjoe. Finally, Andrew Klavan joined The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast to praise Raymond Chandler's novel The Long Goodbye, connecting the month's conversations through themes of analysis, strategy, and human systems.
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Emerald Tablets of Thoth
Discussed“and The Emerald Tablets um of th are literally mind changing and mindblowing just because you understand when this was written and the terminology being used is”
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The emerald tablet
Discussed“Emerald Tablet also known as the smar smar dine smar dine tablet or the tabula smar smara before I [ __ ] that up uh it's a compact Maes yeah a cryptic hermetic text”
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The three musketeers
Discussed“like even like um The Three Musketeers like I probably read it three times because I you know it was so I read it like the first time to read it”
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Travels with Charley in Search of America
Discussed“um is uh I got Charlie right before I i came here the last time um she's named after the john steinbeck novel travels with charlie um because uh i was out in the van and that that book's about steinbeck in the 60s got a camper made a camper van out of a pickup truck and he drove across”
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Never Cry Wolf
Discussed“was that you ever see that movie never cry wolf from the '80s about a guy that goes up in the arctic to study wolves and then he ends up you know know befriending them and brian denes plays the evil trapper and it was a oh one of that movies yeah it was it was it was a great”
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HAPPY ODYSSEY
Discussed“there's another that that doesn't even really have a particularly good book he wrote A Memoir called happy Odyssey which is like it's a bit it's written by him as opposed to you know a bit more exciting”
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The Frame Up
Discussed“it's a book's called frame up it's really good it's hard to find”
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My Lunches with Orson
Recommended“it's called lunches with Orson I think it's about Orson Wells it's literally Orson Wells shitalking every actor and director from the 30s to like the 80s”
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My Life With The Eskimo
Discussed“uh V jalmer Stephenson and he would in his uh he has a he had a book my life with the Eskimo”
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Dissolving Illusions
Recommended“He hasn’t been sued, and then you have to read ‘Dissolving Illusions.’ Wow, that’s a mindblower! Yeah, Aaron Salter Jr. was killed by a mass shooter because he was working on creating a water-powered car engine.”
Freakonomics Radio
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Water, Race, and Disease
Discussed“that was a question asked by Werner truskin Brian Beach's adviser in a 2004 book called water race and disease”
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Arid Empire
Discussed“Natalie cook is a geography professor at Syracuse University and an author the book is called arid Empire the entangled fates of Arizona and Arabia”
Modern Wisdom
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The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology and Behavioral Endocrinology
Discussed“The L Oxford Handbook of evolutionary psychology and romantic relationships that's that's the latest review that I'm aware of”
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Romantic Relationships
Discussed“The L Oxford Handbook of evolutionary psychology and romantic relationships that's that's the latest review that I'm aware of”
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
Discussed“uh in my writing and my book um work from Thorston Vin at the turn of the 20th century he wrote The Theory of the Leisure Class”
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Distinction
Discussed“there was a sociologist named Pierre bordeu who wrote a book called distinction a social critique of the Judgment of taste”
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Only the Paranoid Survive
Discussed“that isn't re Business book only the paranoid survive that's it exactly”
Monday Morning Podcast
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Make Way for Ducklings
Discussed“I like the uh Make Way for Ducklings and Make Way for Ducklings is sort of like a bad dad moment in there you know”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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It’s Not You
Recommended“This book was um I've heard about the word narcissism but this new book it's not you turn the lights on for me.”
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How Not to Let Having Kids Ruin Your Sex Life
Discussed“the I think the quote is from your newest book which is the book is called how not to let having kids ruin your sex life”
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Mind The Gap
Discussed“over 40% of women want to be having more sex than they are currently having which is in chapter two of this book in front of me mind the gap”
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How we do things
Discussed“So these cultural principles that you're reading off came from this book um called How We Do Things.”
How I Write
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1927
Discussed“You talk to people who like Bill Bryson, Bill Bryson wrote A Short History of Nearly Everything, 1927, The Body.”
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The Body
Discussed“You talk to people who like Bill Bryson, Bill Bryson wrote A Short History of Nearly Everything, 1927, The Body.”
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Good Strategy, Bad Strategy
Recommended“I like Richard Rumelt's Good Strategy, Bad Strategy I think is a little bit better written.”
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Against the gods
Recommended“Against the Gods. Against the Gods was a really great book on the history of probability.”
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A good man is hard to find
Discussed“planning o Connor's uh first collection of short stories uh A Good Man is Hard to Find I I read um James Baldwin's first novel uh Go Tell It on the Mountain I read the man with a gray flannel suit and I read uh Raymond Chandler's uh long goodbye”
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The man in the gray flannel suit
Discussed“planning o Connor's uh first collection of short stories uh A Good Man is Hard to Find I I read um James Baldwin's first novel uh Go Tell It on the Mountain I read the man with a gray flannel suit and I read uh Raymond Chandler's uh long goodbye”
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The Infernal Machine
Discussed“and I want to talk about your new book The Infernal machine and how you think about these elements of surprise these surprising stories as you begin to weave together this tapestry of vignettes what are you reading for to find these surprises and then thinking through what actually makes it into a final book”
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Discussed“it's a reference by the way to the Italo calino novel if on a winter sign a traveler which I'm sure 1% of the readers actually got that too but it it's uh for people who are really into meta fiction from the 1960s it had added meaning”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Discussed“So Jeanette Winterson is a female British writer, more in the modern era who had broken through with a memoir called Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.”
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Sexing the Cherry
Discussed“And then had published this book, The Passion, and then a book called Sexing the Cherry, and she's published now several books, but Jeanette Winterson I think is a descendant, in my opinion, of Virginia Woolf.”
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Conscious Business
Recommended“And he wrote this book Conscious Business, which I recommend to, I don't recommend a lot of business books, I'm just going to be perfectly honest Tim, I often read the beginning of business books and then I never finished them. But Conscious Business, I had read all of it and he formed this firm called Axialent at the time”
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The School for Good and Evil
Discussed“It's what I felt with School for Good and Evil, which is I don't care who reads this, I don't care what happens to this. This is mine.”
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The School for Good and Evil #3: The Last Ever After
Discussed“It's what I felt with School for Good and Evil, which is I don't care who reads this, I don't care what happens to this. This is mine.”
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Ever After High: Briar Beauty's Story
Discussed“And Mattel was putting one out called Ever After High, which was, Ever After High, School for Good and Evil, they were so similar, and I was never worried because I'm like, mine is so weird.”
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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The New Censorship
Discussed“it's a guy named Joel Simon author of a book called the new censorship inside the global battle for media freedom and he said the trend nowadays is toward more secrecy more censorship and harsher laws”
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Ghosts of Gettysburg VI
Discussed“he spoke in depth with our Pals at how stuff works about this our matter how stuff works and he wrote a book or he wrote a book series I should say called ghost of Gettysburg wherein he Chronicles a lot of unexplained experiences at Devil's Den”
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Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods,
Discussed“what really puts this guy on the map is a book by a guy named William Thomas Cox it's called fail some creatures of the lumberwoods with a few Desert Mountain beasts 1910”
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Outer Darkness
Recommended“I have to ask you about this comic book series I want to see if you've read it outer Darkness”
Behind the Bastards
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Rejoice And See What Happens Next
Discussed“in the interest of trying to put together a more complete picture of the man I opted to read a propaganda by what I thought was a propaganda biography by one of his followers its title is rejoice and see what happens next The Life and Times of TB Joshua”
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Rejoice
Discussed“I want to return to that book rejoice and see what happens next which is centered around numerous case studies ranging from poor people getting good paying jobs and I think that [ __ ] has meant mainly to like evangelize them to locals”
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What Happens Next
Discussed“I want to return to that book rejoice and see what happens next which is centered around numerous case studies ranging from poor people getting good paying jobs and I think that [ __ ] has meant mainly to like evangelize them to locals”
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Marjoe
Recommended“there's a documentary I always recommend called Marjo and it's about a guy who started out as a child Pastor”
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Sexed Up
Discussed“And that was not only a huge part of uh Whipping Girl, but that's become a part of a lot of my other books, like incl um how society sexualizes us and how we can fight back.”
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Transcripts from Calvary Baptist Church's Senior Pastor and Teacher Allan R. Lee
Recommended“now the best booklink summary of Lee's actual strengths and weaknesses as a commander that I have read is Lee considered by Allan Nolan um and it it is by the way really good book very readable I I recommend it heavily”
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Nixonland
Discussed“It's just, it's one of those things I'm reading right now the book Nixonland again, which covers like this massive period, this, this very undercover period in US history where all there was this unbelievable wave of violence towards the anti-war movement, people assassinated and murdered for handing out pamphlets against the Vietnam War in the streets.”
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Who Was Robert E. Lee?
Discussed“I'm going to start again by reading from our huge head on the cover children's book who was Robert E Lee”
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General Lee: A Biography of Robert E. Lee
Discussed“this is like a Lee family tradition because fitzu Lee's book which I've quoted from several times written in I think 1896 makes it clear that Lee's decision to join the Confederacy wasn't just something he did”
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John Brown's Body
Discussed“His heart, on the other hand, the heart he kept locked away, as Stephen Vincent Benet proclaimed in John Brown's Body, from all the picklocks of biographers.”
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Meet Robert E. Lee
Discussed“In the 1969 Lost Cause history book, Meet Robert E. Lee, uh it rather humorously stated, "Robert E. Lee was the last great man of old Virginia.”
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Clouds of Glory
Discussed“And this excerpt from the book Clouds of Glory by Michael Korda describes the first interaction between Lee and Brown.”
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Robert E. Lee
Discussed“I quote from 'Robert E. Lee: A Life' here: a trust fund that was to remain securely in Anne's name, free from the claim, demand, hindrance, or molestation of her husband, General Henry Lee, or his creditors.”
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America
Recommended“and one of the major sources for this episode is an excellent biography of Lee by Alan guelzo um and I'm going to read a quote from that now talking about the degree to which these people were farmers”
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Discussed“Uh, the founding text or at least one of them of rationalism is a 66,000-word Harry Potter fanfic that is just nonsense.”
The Tucker Carlson Show
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Mao's America
Discussed“and she's written a new book comparing them with a warning it's called ma America”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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The Big Sleep
Discussed“He is also the instigator of several great movies, like 'The Big Sleep'.”
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Fifty Shades Trilogy: Fifty Shades of Grey / Fifty Shades Darker / Fifty Shades Freed
Discussed“you see the same sort of thing pop up for example in 50 Shades of Gray which is again an archetypal example of the feminine proclivity for a certain kind of structured pornography”
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The Long Goodbye
Recommended“I mean, that's a great movie. 'The Long Goodbye' is a great novel.”
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2010: Odyssey Two
Discussed“so there's actually an Arthur SE which one was it I think 2010 right Arthur C Clark brilliant scientist and writer postulated that that at the end of that story you might remember that Jupiter is turned by the aliens into another Sun into in our in our in our solar system”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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American Woman
Discussed“There's a new book coming out called American Woman, The Transformation of the Modern First Lady from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden by New York Times columnist Katie Rogers.”
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Endgame
Discussed“when Charles was going through the hospital treatments to figure out what's going on with the enlarged prostate, was right around the time when Harry's book was mysteriously translated to reveal the alleged racist or not Harry's book, Omid Scobie's book was mysteriously translated to reveal who the alleged racist were in the royal family”
The Shawn Ryan Show
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The Men with Green Faces
Discussed“there is one from Vietnam and I was like oh I think it was the men with green faces I read that book and I was like okay this is what I want to do”
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The Secret Chief Revealed
Recommended“there's incredible book called The Secret Chief revealed about Leo Ze that's available on the map's website and it's his story about all the different drugs and how he uses them and he helped really popularize uh ibigan also in the United States”
My First Million
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Brothers Emanuel
Discussed“There's a book that I read years ago called, 'Brothers Emanuel: A Memoir of an American Family.' Ari Emanuel is probably a billionaire.”
No Stupid Questions
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The Perfection Trap
Discussed“He's a professor at the London School of Economics, and he's kind of this world expert on perfectionism. His book is called The Perfection Trap: Embracing the Power of Good Enough! I mean, it tells you where he stands right there!”
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Free Will
Discussed“I'm going to admit I hadn't thought about it until I got into adulthood, and he was reading a book called 'Free Will' by Sam Harris, which he gave me.”
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Determined
Discussed“He most recently wrote a book, quite prolific, called 'Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will.'”
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The Meritocracy Trap
Discussed“So Patrick says I'm a big fan of the podcast It would be insightful if the two of you could talk about the potential failures of a meritocracy like the one discussed in the Meritocracy Trap by Daniel Markovits Are you familiar with this book I haven't read the Meritocracy Trap, but I'm pretty familiar with these arguments against meritocracy”
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Justice
Discussed“There is another book on this topic of merit and meritocracy This one was written by one of the professors I took a course with at Harvard named Michael Sandel It was called Justice At the time, it was the largest lecture class at Harvard”
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Success and Luck
Discussed“So Mike, there’s an economist named Robert Frank, and he wrote a book called Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy Okay And I would say the through line in a lot of these arguments, including Sandel's, is that when you get into Harvard, you think you earned it”
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The Big Test
Discussed“I mean if you go back I don't know how many decades but I think it was Nicholas lemon's book the big test which gives you a little history of these ivy league admissions”
Stuff You Should Know
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The Pump House Gang
Discussed“Tom Wolf the great writer uh wrote uh in the pump house gang in 1968 uh he actually referenced the behavioral snc”
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Make Room! Make Room!
Discussed“of course soent green yeah great uh great movie from the novel make room make room I no idea what was called that I didn't either”
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Stand on Zanzibar
Discussed“there's another novel called Stand on Zanzibar and um there were uh people called muckers who ran a muck and just suddenly went crazy and started killing a bunch of people”
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The Radioactive Boy Scout
Recommended“if it hadn't been found uh by a gentleman named Ken Silverstein who ended up writing a very large piece in Harper's magazine and then a book called The radioactive Boy Scout colon the true story of a boy in his backyard nuclear reactor”
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Cosmic View
Discussed“It was based on a book by a Dutch teacher named Kees Boeke, called Cosmic View: The Universe in 40 Jumps.”
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Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
Recommended“the name spaceship earth comes from a Bucky Fuller essay kind of a Nolla called an operating manual for spaceship earth and you can find the PDF for free on the and get a pretty good idea of Bucky Fuller's whole Jam”
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The Life and Adventures of the American Cow-boy
Discussed“called The Life and Adventures of the American Cowboy colon life in the Far West in 1897 and it's going to have uh horses and cowboy poetry and like lasso throwing advice”
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Pygmalion in the classroom
Discussed“So they published a study in 1968 called Pygmalion in the Classroom, and again they named it after Pygmalion because in that story from Ovid, the sculptor Pygmalion sculpts a beautiful woman, falls in love with her, and loves the statue so much that the goddess Venus says, "I'm going to make you a real-life person."”
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Las Vegas, City of Sin?
Discussed“Dick Taylor and Pat Howell wrote a book called Las Vegas, not a colon but a comma, City of sin, question mark, and that's where supposedly the name Sin City came around”
The Book Review
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Edie
Discussed“About Edie Sedwick it was called Edie American Girl and American Girl which came out in 1982 it was the modern re-entry of the oral history into the American Consciousness”
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George, Being George
Discussed“the name is George being George and the subtitle is the following George plimpton's Life As Told admired deplored and envied by 200 friends relatives lovers acquaintances Rivals and a few unappreciative observers”
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The Poisonwood Bible
Discussed“my my last favorite was The Poisonwood Bible”
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Eligible
Recommended“so I think I would recommend eligible by Curtis sienfeld it is a modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice set in the suburbs of Cincinnati”
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Netherland
Recommended“right after clueless my recommendation would be Netherland by Joseph O'Neal it's a book I read when it came out and just stunned me at the time”
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Super-Infinite
Recommended“Sarah you have brought a book that was released in 2022 the name of the book is super infinite the transformations of John done”
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Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels
Recommended“and this is a book called The Mysterious case of the alerton Angels this is by the British mystery writer Hallet”
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The Other Side
Recommended“stie let us begin with the other side a story of women in art and the spirit world”
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Madness
Recommended“and this is a Madness by Antonia Hilton”
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Poor things
Discussed“so I yeah I went to see poor things for example very interesting movie with a lot of ideas and a lot to think about and I enjoyed thinking about it and I've had conversations with various friends about it”
StarTalk Radio
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The Spirit of St. Louis
Discussed“I was given a book by a dear friend Greg Marinac, The Spirit of St. Louis, and I’m reading the book. He gave it to me to encourage me to finish my pilot's license.”
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The Singularity Is Near
Discussed“Long story; I was carrying Ray's book, 'The Singularity is Near,' which is an interesting title, and he just came out with a new book, 'The Singularity is Nearer.'”
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Look Up with Me : Neil deGrasse Tyson
Discussed“Alright, there's a book called Look Up With Me, right? Which is for you're just barely learning how to read.”
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Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry
Discussed“Awesome, and that's called Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry. So there it is, there you go.”
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Look Up
Recommended“there's a book called look up with me”
Dwarkesh Podcast
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Apprentice to Genius
Discussed“There's an interesting book, Apprentice to Genius, that follows three generations of scientists. So someone who mentored somebody else, who in turn mentored another scientist. And they're all extremely successful.”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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Pterodactyl
Recommended“has a new comedy special out on Amazon Prime called pterodactyl that I really enjoyed I suggest you check it out”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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The intelligent investor
Recommended“The key is to buy at a price that represents a big discount to that approximation. That gets back to Ben Graham.”
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America's Cultural Revolution
Recommended“I had someone—a friend of mine—send me Christopher Rufo’s book 'America's Cultural Revolution,' which is sort of a sociological study of the origins of the DEI movement and critical race theory.”
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Martin & Malcolm & America
Discussed“James Cone wrote a book called 'Malcolm and Martin: Dreams and Nightmares.'”
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Martin and Malcolm and America: A Dream or a Nightmare
Discussed“James Cone wrote a book called "Malcolm and Martin, Dreams and Nightmares."”
Acquired
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The Luxury Strategy
Discussed“well if you read the luxury strategy which is great book that we've referenced many times on acquired they start back 50,000 years ago”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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The Twilight Saga
Discussed“so uh you know somewhere in my early 40s which was some years hence now um I did get addicted to romance novels and it started with the Twilight Saga which for those not in the know is a vampire romance uh series written for teenagers and I certainly wasn't a teenager”
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The Big Sort
Discussed“I’m trying to think of the book called 'The Big Sort' that came out a few years ago; I’m trying to think of the author now.”
ChooseFI
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Finding Flow
Recommended“this month I finished the book flow by sent me hail and we talked about him before and his book finding flow which I've read several times and I'm very familiar with it's kind of the more accessible short version”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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The Power of Intention
Discussed“He goes, 'There’s a great...' —he was writing a book at the time called The Power of Intention but I didn’t know that.”
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The Scourge of the Swastika
Discussed“And when I was 11 I climbed up on a chair and it was a book called the Scourge of the Swastika.”
The Ezra Klein Show
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The Lincoln Miracle
Discussed“I've been reading Ed acorn's book The Lincoln Miracle inside the Republican convention That Changed History my favorite line in it comes from Senator Charles suner who sends a welcome note to the delegates where he says quote”
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The Book of Job
Discussed“but there's this argument that the Book of Job would be more powerful if job was not restored at the end”
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The Book of Disquiet
Recommended“and his most famous book is called the book of disquiet I'll recommend that too”
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The Arabs
Recommended“those who are interested in learning about us in English it's called the Arabs by Eugene Rogan the modern Arab history beginning maybe mid 16th century and all the the beautiful thing about this book is actually it's done by an Arab but through the prism of how Arabs themselves see themselves and how they lived and experienced various episodes”
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Thy Neighbor's Wife
Recommended“my third book is thy neighbor's wife by gay Tois which is about 40 years old and it's a book that's looking at these twin impulses in American culture to be both sex obsessed and also very puritanical”
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The Emerging Democratic Majority
Discussed“and he wrote in 2002 alongside John Judas a famous book called The emerging Democratic majority”
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Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities
Recommended“a I would recommend political cleavages and social inequalities by Thomas pick at at all a study of 50 democracies because all the political Trends and demographic Trends we've talked about on this podcast today are detailed with copious data in this marvelous compendium of studies”
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Visions of Inequality
Recommended“I'd also recommend visions of inequality by Bronco milanovic from the French re Evolution to the end of the Cold War that just recently came out and this is a fabulous book for understanding how views of inequality have changed over time seen through the lens of a lot of economic Giants”
Pod Save America
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The Conscience of a Liberal
Recommended“He's an inspiring guy; everyone should read his book, 'Conscience of a Liberal.'”
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What Would Reagan Do?
Discussed“your book is called what would Reagan do do you seem more of a through line between Reagan's optimistic message and Joe Biden's message about America's fundamental decency”
The Mel Robbins Podcast
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The Narcissism Epidemic
Discussed“he wrote a book called The narcissism epidemic back in 2012 with Jean um twangy and they were suggesting that it was on the rise at that point”
Timcast IRL
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Detroit: Become Human -Tokyo Stories-, Vol. 1 (manga)
Discussed“Detroit become human video game that came out several years ago and it's a narrative video game where basically servant AI robots start waking up”
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The Civil War: A Narrative
Recommended“Shelby foot's my favorite Civil War writer and uh he said that the north thought they were fighting the Civil War and the South thought they were fighting the second like American Revolution the best book which book oh GE well just I think it's called the Civil War it's a whole series that I think he spent maybe 20”
EconTalk
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Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929
Discussed“in 2015 he published year zero of the Arab Israeli conflict 1929 which is our topic for today”
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Power, Faith, and Fantasy
Discussed“uh you're a former ambassador of the United States in 2011 you published uh Power faith and fantasy America in the Middle East 1776 to the present”
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Six Days of War
Recommended“he's the author of many books but I particularly want to recommend six days of War June 1967 in the making of the modern Middle East which is a superb treatment of the Six Day War”
SmartLess
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American Buffalo
Discussed“I went to him with American Buffalo, and I was like I was losing my saliva, literally.”
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
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Wild and Crazy Guys
Discussed“I read this book, I think it's called like Wild and Crazy Guys! And it's just a little nonfiction book about this, that span of time where like, it's like Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, Bill Murray, Dan, it's like all of when they all were blowing up and what movies got made and whatever!”
Huberman Lab
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A World Without Email
Discussed“We have a future guest on this podcast named Cal Newport; he wrote the book Deep Work, and he has another book called The World Without Email. He's a computer science professor at Georgetown where he talks extensively about the tremendous career, but also relationship and life value of doing essentially what you're describing.”
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Advice for a Young Investigator
Discussed“As a graduate student, I had a little book titled 'Advice for Young Investigators' by Romonica Hall in my desk drawer. It offered whimsical anecdotes and pertinent insights but was also filled with misogynistic overtones that glamorously depicted workaholic tendencies.”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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Eve
Recommended“My guest will be Cat Bohannan, who has written an absolutely stunning book; it's called "Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution."”
