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Books podcasts were talking about in March 2024
March 2024 podcast episodes covered deep dives into history, human behavior, and literature. On No Stupid Questions, Angela Duckworth praised Josh Waitzkin’s The Art of Learning as one of her favorite books while exploring intuition and chess. Behind the Bastards featured Robert Evans discussing Murray Bookchin’s work on the Spanish Revolution and Spanish anarchism. Timcast IRL highlighted Cixin Liu's novel The Three-Body Problem, with the host arguing that its introduction should be viewed in educational settings. The Ezra Klein Show featured extensive literary recommendations from John Gans, who recommended Daniel Walker Howe’s historical study What Hath God Wrought, Samuel Goldman’s After Nationalism, and Fritz R. Stern’s The Politics of Cultural Despair. Stuff You Should Know featured Josh discussing Andrew Sean Greer's Pulitzer-winning novel Less, noting his reliance on the Pulitzer list for finding great fiction. Finally, on The Diary Of A CEO, John Gottman referenced Emily Nagoski’s Come as You Are to explain research surrounding women's eroticism.
The Rubin Report
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Speechless
Discussed“The situation arose regarding a book by BLM's Andy Knowles, which discussed Antifa and the BLM riots. [David] Yeah.”
No Stupid Questions
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The Art of Learning
Recommended“But one of my favorite books is called The Art of Learning by one of the greatest chess masters ever: oh, Josh Waitzkin! Yes!”
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Chasing Perfection
Discussed“I was interviewing this legendary High School football coach his name is Bob liser and he coached I think the winningest high school football team in history the dilal Spartans in conquered California and he was telling me about his coaching philosophy”
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Fear and Courage
Discussed“And there's a psychologist named Stanley Rachman who was a lifelong scholar of fear and courage! And he wrote a book of the same title: 'Fear and Courage.'”
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Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive
Discussed“I've just been reading a book called permission to feel Oh by Mark bracket”
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Permission to Feel
Recommended“Actually, there's a really interesting author; I've just been reading a book called 'Permission to Feel.' Yes, yes!”
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Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch
Discussed“I mean there's this Valentine's book that we always read as kids called Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch!”
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The Science of Trust: Emotional Attunement for Couples
Discussed“I’m going to read to you from The Science of Trust: Emotional Attunement for Couples! And it’s about how couples can build a healthy, trusting relationship!”
Modern Wisdom
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The management of time
Discussed“starting the 50 uh the 1950s the very first book it's really the very first book on what we would think of as modern time management and it's called the management of time”
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Why we can't wait
Discussed“Yeah, so during the Civil Rights Movement the the policy of the Civil Rights Movement, and you can anyone can read this in Martin Luther King's book Why We Can't Wait from the mid-60s, he says "Here's the plan.”
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Million Dollar Weekend
Discussed“and I've done it with million dollar weekend I've done it with appsumo I've done it with mint I've done it with all these things time and time again is how do you do things that don't scale”
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The Last Lion
Discussed“I just reread the that three book series The Last Lion which is a fantastic look at it's it's a a history of Churchill covers you know birth to death and it's a lot of detail but it's very readable and it's just it but there's a lot of it”
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The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce
Discussed“because I believe you know having read you know the unexpected Legacy of divorce and some of the other books out there that talk about the impact of divorce in a long-term way on children”
Behind the Bastards
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The Bezzle
Discussed“our guest is the great Corey Doctoro activist writer author uh of a book called the bezel um which is a fiction novel but deals with some very non-fictional stuff in relation to how finance ghouls have changed life for people behind bars.”
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Taltos
Discussed“There's a an extended degression where where Martin is sending books uh to a friend of his in prison. And you you talk a lot about Steven's uh Taltosh series, which was a huge influence on me as a young person.”
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Dragon
Discussed“I I came across the first book in that series was that I read was Dragon which I I came across a strip cover from my uncle who worked at a bookstore. Um and that's his like military fiction book in the series”
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Workers' Self-management in Algeria
Discussed“I'm going to read a quote from Kle about what they were doing. The use of air power in Napal to clear cover made movement inside the country almost impossible. The construction of mined and electrified barriers along the border with Tunisia and Morocco”
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The Spanish Anarchists
Recommended“The senator Spanish revolution. Uh Murray Bchin has a book about the heroic years of Spanish anarchism. Abel Paz has many books. Uh yeah, you can you can spend time on Libcom and read a lot about collective production in the Spanish Revolution”
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The merchant of Dennis the Menace
Discussed“he calls it The Merchant of Dennis the Menace oh like The Merchant of Venice for no reason”
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The Hidden History of Coined Words
Discussed“in the book The Hidden history of coined words published by Oxford University press author Ralph Keys argues that Barney Google was probably the inspiration for the term gole”
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The Disney Revolt
Recommended“and in a very good book on the subject the Disney Revolt by Jake fredman uh Jake writes quote the salaries”
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How Everything Can Collapse
Discussed“In the book, How Everything Can Collapse, which I referenced in uh the previous episode, Pablo Seven and Raphael Stevens talk about the paradox of collapse. And I'll leave it in their words because I think it was really well put.”
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From What Is to What If
Discussed“The transition movement is vitally rooted in imagination. I've spoken about the vitality of imagination in the past. Uh in fact, my video on the subject was partially inspired by Rob Hopkins book from what is to what if. You imagine, you sketch out the details and you roll up your sleeves and you make it real.”
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The Transition Handbook
Discussed“During the development of the transition networks project, Rob Hopkins along with others published the transition handbook which is structured in three parts. The first is the head which are the facts of the situation. Then you have the heart which are the emotional consequences and desired futures.”
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Infinite Loop
Discussed“By that point, I had read 'Infinite Loop,' which was the first truly critical examination of Jobs.”
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Infinite loop
Discussed“I had started to cuz I had read infinite Loop by that point which I think is like the first really critical piece of big reporting on jobs”
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The One Device
Recommended“That's where Brian Merchant's 2016 history of the iPhone, 'The One Device,' comes in. Um, yeah, and it's a really interesting book, a really good book.”
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Return to the Little Kingdom
Discussed“and I'm going to quote from the book Return to the little kingdom here which is the first history of Apple that gets published”
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diet for a small planet
Discussed“but in his freshman year he reads a book called diet for a small plant Planet”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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Who Are We Now?
Discussed“and then there are popular books written by academics and these intentionally gloss over the details and they focus on fun stories that hopefully have some scientific Merit, but your book who are we now is neither of these”
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Big Bets
Discussed“his new book called Big bets how large scale change really happens recounts experiences on these projects both the lessons he's learned and the mistakes he made”
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The Power of Habit
Discussed“I could talk with you all day about 'Super Communicators,' but I'm also curious about the other things you've done, like your first book, 'The Power of Habit,' which came out in 2012 and was an unbelievable success.”
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Smarter Faster Better
Discussed“Charles Duhigg has one more big book we haven’t yet discussed, titled 'Smarter Faster Better'; it tackles productivity and uses great storytelling to convey its points.”
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Supercommunicators
Recommended“he's got a new book out entitled super communicators how to unlock the secret language of connection and I found out that we're actually living through a golden age of understanding the neurology and psychology of communication”
Timcast IRL
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The Three-Body Problem
Recommended“I believe the introduction to the 'Three-Body Problem' should be required viewing in schools; kids should definitely watch it.”
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The fourth turning
Discussed“Or the worst part if it, and this is something that even Neil Howell got into in 'The Fourth Turning,' is that the new version of it was that if a war starts and then there's a provocation in the US or Ukraine or somewhere in Europe and somehow it gets blamed on Trump, and it gets blamed on MAGA,”
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Trump: The Art of the Deal
Discussed“I mean, and Trump tried to do that; there's a great clip of Trump after he was out of office; he’s being interviewed for his book, and he's talking about meeting Netanyahu and Abbas, the head of the PLO in the West Bank, and he says very candidly, he says, you know, I got a really good feeling about Abbas;”
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Recommended“If you want a really bizarre experience, check out Tom Woods' new book. It came out a few months ago, and Tom Woods was debunking this in real time with his newsletters starting in March of 2020.”
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How It Feels to be Colored Me
Discussed“When I was 17 I quoted zor Neil hurston's how it feels to be colored me in my college application essay”
Big Technology Podcast
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AI for Good
Discussed“Yeah, I, you know, it's funny, it's a new book that's out, and we're sort of, we're plugging this book, AI for good. But it made me kind of think, the chapters in the book are all just, like, actual applications.”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Historia Alexandri Magni
Discussed“At the same time, I read Christopher Rufo's book where he discusses the genealogy of wokeism and ideology.”
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Rocky III
Discussed“There is no tomorrow, from Rocky III. There is no tomorrow, fuck that shit.”
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Phenomena
Discussed“You've written, like you said, the book "Phenomena" on the secret history of the US government's investigations into extrasensory perception and psychokinesis.”
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Operation paperclip
Discussed“The following is a conversation with Annie Jacobsen, an investigative journalist, Pulitzer Prize finalist, and author of several amazing books on war, weapons, government secrecy, and national security, including the books titled "Area 51", "Operation Paperclip", "The Pentagon's Brain Phenomena", "Surprise, Kill, Vanish", and her new book, "Nuclear War".”
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The Cold and the Dark
Recommended“Carl Sagan talked about that in this amazing book he wrote with two scientist colleagues called "The Cold and the Dark."”
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One State, Two States
Critiqued“Now, I read carefully your book, "One State, Two States." With all due respect, absolutely a disgrace.”
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Righteous victims
Discussed“Here I'm referring to "Righteous Victims."”
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The diaries of Theodor Herzl
Discussed“when I was still in high school because my late father had it, was "The Diaries of Theodor Herzl."”
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The Destruction of the European Jews
Discussed“if you look at Raul Hilberg's three volume classic work, "The Destruction of the European Jewry," he has in those thousand plus pages, one sentence,”
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A History of False Hope
Recommended“You may want to consult the book published last year by Lori Allen, "A History of False Hope," which discusses in great detail the consistent engagement”
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Kitchen Confidential
Discussed“- Yeah, he wrote a book called "Kitchen Confidential," in the 90s. I was in cooking school at the time. It was so... he romanticized cooking in the restaurant so well.”
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Russo-Ukrainian War
Discussed“He has written many insightful books on Ukraine and Russia, the Soviet Union, and Slavic peoples in general, spanning centuries on topics like Chernobyl and nuclear disasters, as well as the current war in Ukraine, in a book titled The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History.”
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Nuclear Folly
Discussed“Yes, you've authored a great book on the Cuban Missile Crisis, where we came alarmingly close to not just another world war but to a nuclear conflict that could obliterate human civilization as we know it.”
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The last empire
Discussed“You call the Soviet Union the last empire. The book is called The Last Empire.”
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Origins of the Slavic Nations
Discussed“You wrote a book, The Origins of The Slavic Nations. So let's go back into history.”
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The Cossack Myth
Discussed“You wrote the book, the Cossack Myth, History and Nationhood in the Age of Empires, it tells the story of an anonymous manuscript called the History of the Rus.”
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Documentary Sources for the History of the Rus' Metropolitanate
Discussed“It tells the story of an anonymous manuscript called the History of the Rus. It started being circulated in the 1820s.”
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The Man With the Golden Gun
Discussed“He does that with the new weapon, a spray pistol that eventually makes it into the Bond novel, The Man With The Golden Gun.”
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On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians
Discussed“Maybe let's talk about in July, 2021, Putin publishing an essay titled On The Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians. Can you describe the ideas expressed in this essay?”
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The Frontline
Discussed“You wrote in your book titled The Frontline, Essays on Ukraine's Past and Present, about the Russian question, I guess articulated by Solzhenitsyn first in 1994.”
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Atoms and Ashes
Discussed“You wrote in the book, in Atoms and Ashes, a Global History of Nuclear Disaster. So technically nuclear energy is extremely safe.”
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Atoms and Ashes - a Global History of Nuclear Disasters
Discussed“You wrote in the book, in Atoms and Ashes, a Global History of Nuclear Disaster. So technically nuclear energy is extremely safe.”
The Book Review
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Tales of the City
Discussed“and I I read some things I'd never read before and one of them the tales of the city books by armistad mopin I was just so pleased to read that book which IID always thought I don't know what I had thought I knew it was serialized in a newspaper”
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Airships
Discussed“I imagine with someone like him also his this is a guy that wrote airships I think maybe most famously Dwight correct me if I'm wrong that's the book that's hard to read now and it's it's an amazing book”
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Lightning Rods
Discussed“it's a book called lightning rods it's by Helen DT who people might know if they know her for a book called The Last Samurai but she also wrote this I don't know how to describe it bizarre novel”
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Then we came to the end
Discussed“then we came to the end yes by Joshua Ferris”
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Dune Messiah
Discussed“at this point Herbert wrote six novels he wrote Dune and then there are five sequels Dune Messiah children of Dune God emperor of Dune Heretics of Dune and Chapter House Dune”
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Heretics of Dune
Discussed“at this point Herbert wrote six novels he wrote Dune and then there are five sequels Dune Messiah children of Dune God emperor of Dune Heretics of Dune and Chapter House Dune”
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Chapterhouse Dune
Discussed“at this point Herbert wrote six novels he wrote Dune and then there are five sequels Dune Messiah children of Dune God emperor of Dune Heretics of Dune and Chapter House Dune”
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The devil wears Prada
Discussed“one of my personal favorites The Devil Wears Prada okay in which the book is just interior monologue a main character and you end up hating her by the end and in the movie we don't hear her interior monologue”
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American Fiction
Discussed“so it's one of those things too where it it makes me feel like yeah I wish this book had been bigger although now it's getting a lot more attention obviously but I can certainly see what cour Jefferson saw in it and why it made a movie that has become as successful as American fiction has”
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My Pathology
Discussed“let's dive in the alter ego of the writer of this novel called my piology later simply can we say no”
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The Guest
Recommended“my satire is the guest by Emma Klein”
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The Other Black Girl
Recommended“and two other titles I wanted to mention very quickly I'm just going to say their titles are the other black girl and yellow face”
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Yellowface
Recommended“and two other titles I wanted to mention very quickly I'm just going to say their titles are the other black girl and yellow face”
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The Hour of the Star
Discussed“and you have chosen the book hour of the Star by Clarice Le Spectre the Brazilian writer”
The Ezra Klein Show
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Lifted to the Shoulders of a Mountain
Discussed“but but I went back and read this book beanan published in 2002 called the death of the West”
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What Hath God Wrought
Recommended“ah okay so my first book I would was is kind of big and long but it's one of my favorite books about American history is called what hath God wrought the transformation of America 1815 to 1848 history of America and like the Jacksonian times it's a wonderful history”
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After Nationalism
Recommended“if you don't want to read a 900 page book I can offer something much shorter which is a book called after nationalism being American in an age of division by Samuel Goldman”
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The Politics of Cultural Despair
Recommended“and the third book I would recommend is the politics of cultural despair by Fritz Stern where he talks about the kinds of people in Germany who prior in the 19th century kind of created the ideological underpinnings for what became Nazism and it's a wonderful book”
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Competing Devotions
Recommended“I mentioned one already by Mary Blair Loy called competing devotions career and family among women Executives this is a groundbreaking interview study with women Executives in the financial services industry”
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Women in Family Business Leadership Roles
Recommended“I mentioned one already by Mary Blair Loy called competing devotions career and family among women Executives this is a groundbreaking interview study with women Executives in the financial services industry”
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Mothering While Black
Recommended“a second book is by don da called mothering well black boundaries and burdens of middle class Parenthood and I think of Dawn's book as this fabulous crucial complement to my own”
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Hope in the Dark
Recommended“and the third book is not a sociological one it's um by Rebecca solnet Hope in the dark untold history wild possibilities she's also written a book called Men explain things to me”
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Extra Life
Recommended“so I have three books that I love for different reasons so I love extra Life by Steven Johnson it's zooming out to say isn't it remarkable that we have basically added an extra life”
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The Bet
Recommended“I also love this book by Paul Sabin uh that I used to teach out of and it is called the BET Paul erlick Julian Simon and our gamble over Earth's future”
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Tip O'Neill and the Democratic century
Recommended“and that is this biography by John Farrell of tip O'Neal that I just read that has many incredible things in it but it represents a world where tip O'Neal when he's Speaker of the House Ronald Reagan is President and they are in fact able to function”
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A Nation Without Borders
Recommended“something I've been reading that I haven't actually finished that is speaking to the moment very much for me is stepen hans's history of the 19th century it's in Eric foner's penguin history of America series I it's called a nation Without Borders”
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The Field of Blood
Recommended“and for a third I'm going to stick with the theme of the 19th century controlling the 21st and recommend Joanne Freeman's book field of blood uh which is also incredibly resonant today”
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Tiny You
Recommended“Jennifer Holland did a book called tiny you Western history of the anti-abortion and Daniel K Williams did a book called Defenders Of The Unborn”
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Defenders of the unborn
Recommended“Jennifer Holland did a book called tiny you Western history of the anti-abortion and Daniel K Williams did a book called Defenders Of The Unborn”
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Before Roe V. Wade
Recommended“and I also really love uh a book called before roie Wade that was put together by Linda greenhouse and Reva seagull and it's primarily a kind of polyphonic collection of primary sort documents from before row came down”
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Piers Plowman
Recommended“and one of my favorite books is Pier Plowman William langland coming out of the 14th century I just finished reading the Theology of germanica which is an anonymous work 14th century written in German”
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Theologia Germanica
Recommended“and one of my favorite books is Pier Plowman William langland coming out of the 14th century I just finished reading the Theology of germanica which is an anonymous work 14th century written in German”
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Sparks
Recommended“second book also by a former colleague of mine at the Council on Foreign Relations in this case Ian Johnson who's one of this country's leading historians of China wrote a book called Sparks and the subtitle is China's underground historians and their battle for the future”
Dwarkesh Podcast
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The Symbolic Species
Discussed“A book that Trenton recommended, The Symbolic Species, has this really interesting argument that language is not just a thing that exists, but it was also something that evolved along with our minds”
Stuff You Should Know
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1493
Discussed“He won, which was yours, 1491! And then the follow-up was 1493! He won a big award for that, but not the Pulitzer!”
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Roots
Discussed“Alex Haley was another recipient in 1977 for his book Roots, which, surprisingly, had a colon in its full title: Roots: The Saga of an American Family. I think I may have seen it before on the cover, but they never really emphasized the colon, making it seem implied.”
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A million little pieces
Discussed“I think the sad thing is that apparently it's sort of like a million little pieces book that that guy wrote. I read that book, and it was great with a capital G! In my mind, I always thought, 'Dude, why didn’t you just call it a novel?'”
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Fences
Discussed“August Wilson uh won for fences another great play so yeah great great plays”
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Less
Recommended“Um, I picked this book because that's sometimes when I'm after a novel and it's been a while, I will go to the Pulitzer list and that's exactly what I did. And I'm reading Less by Andrew Sean Greer, which won in 2018, and it is so funny and great!”
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Dangerous to man
Discussed“But because there was a respected naturalist, Bruce Wright, writing about this, it was picked up by another scientist, a conservationist named Roger Caras, who wrote a book a couple of years later called Dangerous to Man.”
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Bloom County
Discussed“Well, now that I think about it, the first one that really— not the first one that made me laugh, but the one that hit me on a second level was Bloom County.”
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Communion
Discussed“But he was a horror and science fiction writer and in '87 published the book 'Communion' which had, if you look up the cover of 'Communion', the illustration that was done by Ted Jacobs along with, you know, Strieber, because he was like this is what I saw, you got to draw this right, that is as stereotypical alien head”
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Abduction
Discussed“Then, yeah, he had a book in '94 about 13 different abduction cases called 'Abduction: Human Encounters with Alien.' Uh, parentheses, BTW, I teach at Harvard. Did I mention?”
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The interrupted journey
Discussed“UPI picks it up, uh, and then a guy named John G. Fuller made it into a book in 1966 called The Interrupted Journey: Two Lost Hours Aboard a Flying Saucer. Uh, which eventually became a TV movie in 1975 called The UFO Incident, which you can watch on YouTube if you want to see a relatively young and, uh,”
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How to fix a broken heart
Recommended“That's tip number one from psychologist Guy Winch, the author of "How to Fix a Broken Heart": Stay the heck off social media.”
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Llama, Llama Red Pajama
Discussed“I 683 1382.0 I kind of forgot until I started researching this that there was a uh 684 1386.4 there's a book series for kids called llama 685 1388.9 llama 686 1389.7 okay and boy 687 1389.6 oh boy 688 1390.5 did 689 1391.0 I have to read a lot of llama llama for those first few years”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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Talk to Me Like I'm Someone You Love
Discussed“it was brilliant book ”
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The Normal Bar
Discussed“the biggest study done on this question was done ”
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The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
Discussed“this was in your book the seven principles of of making marriage work ”
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Fight Right
Discussed“the book is come out I think February 1st M January 30th yeah ah okay why did you write this book why was it so important there's so many things that you could have written about from one of your research but for some reason you wrote a book called fight right why did why”
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Come as You Are
Recommended“there's a wonderful book by Emily ngosi called come as you are that reviews This research ”
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75 Hard
Discussed“I found this guy called Andy fitell and he had a book called um 75 hard and it was like a mental toughness challenge”
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Marry Him
Discussed“I think some of them are very much inspired by your first book, um, Marry Him.”
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How to Raise a Healthy Gamer
Recommended“and your book is about much more than gaming the book is called how to raise a healthy gamer but it's about everything it's about addictions it's about our mind”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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The Man Who Would Be Queen
Discussed“And by the way, the other psychologist is Michael Bailey, and he wrote a book on it. I can't—it’s something—I think it was something like The Man Who Would Be Queen.”
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Political Ponerology
Discussed“You know, it's if you believe—if you read Political Ponerology, this really interesting book on the psychology of totalitarianism, he argues that totalitarianism is defined by the narcissists and the psychopaths taking over every major institution in society and emerging from the bottom up.”
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Medical Nemesis
Discussed“I was reading even book medical Nemesis which is about iatrogenesis the way the medical system makes people sick”
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Political ponerology
Recommended“if you read political ponerology this really interesting book on the psychology of totalitarianism”
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We've Got Issues
Discussed“but also with a new book called we've got issues which is definitely the case uh both psychologically and socially in the west”
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Troubled
Discussed“I'm talking today to Dr Rob Henderson who's a novelist and a public intellectual a psychologist and author of the recent book troubled A Memoir of foster care family and social class which was released in February”
StarTalk Radio
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Harlan Ellison's The city on the edge of forever (teleplay)
Discussed“So if memory serves, that was The City on the Edge of Forever, which was a famous story by Harlan Ellison, a famous science fiction writer.”
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The large scale structure of space-time
Discussed“So back on my shelf I got a book by Stephen Hawking, 'The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time.' Okay, it’s got some title like that.”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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The corner
Discussed“onset David Simon he was the original writer of uh the book The Corner”
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Free-Range Kids
Recommended“I'm a big fan of Lenore Skenazy, the woman who wrote 'Free-Range Kids.' She and I co-founded an organization called Let Grow; parents, please go to letgrow.org for all kinds of ideas on how to help your kid have more independence, which makes them more mature and less fragile.”
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The Technological Society
Discussed“Kaczynski's brother David later stated that Ellul's book, The Technological Society, became Ted's bible.”
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Illusions
Discussed“I've always been obsessed with um uh Richard Bach I don't know if you know like there's a he has this book called illusions that I've owned for a long time that I've always wanted to do”
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Shogun
Discussed“American historical drama limited series created by Rachel condo and Justin marks based on the 1975 novel of the same name by James clavell the novel was previously adapted into a 1980 limited series”
Never Enough
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The Titan
Discussed“and then the biography of John Rockefeller it's called Titan”
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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Rosemary's Baby
Discussed“it's weird to think of it as between non-fiction and fiction because think in Rosemary's Baby just in terms of Son Of The Devil is like the Antichrist”
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The Book of Daniel
Discussed“if you go back to Jewish Traditions The Book of Daniel that was written like 167 BCE Loosely then the author there predicts that there will be what they call a final persecutor arising”
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The River
Discussed“Jake pointed out a book we talked about the past the river a journey to the source of HIV by Edward Hooper remember this”
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AIDS
Discussed“Jake pointed out a book we talked about the past the river a journey to the source of HIV by Edward Hooper remember this”
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The Worship of The Generative Powers
Discussed“there's a book from 1865 by Thomas Wright called the worship of generative powers and I think uh with a with a quote from this a quotation from this we'll see that comparison”
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The Knights Templar & their myth
Recommended“there's a book uh from 1987 it's pretty great uh called the Knights Templar and their myth and the author Peter partner”
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The Cutter Incident
Recommended“Paul a offet director of the vaccine education center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and author of the best book about the cutter incident spoiler it is titled the cutter incident subtitle how America's first polio vaccine led to the growing vaccine crisis”
Conversations with Tyler
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A book of common prayer
Discussed“um you know so I went to an English uh to a to a protest high Protestant High Anglican School in India from you know for until 12th grade and we'd start every morning uh singing A Hymn reciting a book out of the book of common prayer”
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Summa contra gentiles
Discussed“Thomas aquinus believed in it for example wrote about it you know in Sim country dulis and also in the Suma theologia”
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Summa Theologiae
Discussed“Thomas aquinus believed in it for example wrote about it you know in Sim country dulis and also in the Suma theologia”
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Institutes of the Christian Religion
Discussed“you know I mean every these people that call themselves Calvinists you there's no no great likelihood that they will have read the the institutes or anything else that he wrote”
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Mother country
Discussed“your very first book which is called mother country it's about nuclear pollution in Great Britain why did you write that book many people are surprised when they learn that's a book of yours”
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Reading Genesis
Recommended“today I'm talking with Marilyn Robinson one of America's best and best known writers she is also a non-fiction essayist and now she has a new book out called reading Genesis by Marilyn Robinson which I recommend highly”
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Housekeeping
Recommended“but I'm very happy to recommend all of her books and of course her famous novels to you housekeeping I think being my favorite”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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Faerie queene
Discussed“In the book, you describe validating the criminal or validating the target's model of the world. What does that mean exactly?”
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Order Out of Chaos
Discussed“And it's having that ability to go into any setting anywhere in the world in those high-pressure environments and being able to bring about, as hence the title of the book, order out of chaos, which is what it was about.”
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Chasing Shadows
Discussed“the the mafia a guy in um the book um chasing Shadows you know he”
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Carmilla
Discussed“I think it was one of the most highlighted lines in 'Attached.'”
How I Write
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Hunger
Discussed“And there's an older work by Norwegian writer called Knut Hamsun called Hunger, and I think that's what John Fante took for his thing.”
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American Work Values
Discussed“You've read, Paul Graham wrote this essay, Great Work. I'm assuming you've read that one.”
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Letters of E. B. White
Discussed“So for example, Strunk and White, which is another classic book I'm writing, is more of a practical style.”
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Full House
Discussed“I got that from reading his book, Full House, in the book. I give him full attribution.”
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The success equation
Recommended“Thanks for all your writing and The Success Equation in particular. I love that book. I love the idea of the paradox of skill.”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Rogue Justice
Discussed“ABS has a brand new thriller out tomorrow called Rogue Justice which follows a supreme court law clerk as she unpacks a riveting legal mystery”
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Family Unfriendly
Recommended“the um book is called family unfriendly it's by Tim Carney you can pre-order right now let's helped him get up on the New York Times bestseller list”
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The Palace
Discussed“historian and author of the book The Palace from the tutors to the Windsor 500 years of British history at Hampton Court”
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Peanut Goes for the Gold
Discussed“she like eight called Peanut goes for the gold and Jonathan vaness is the author”
The Tucker Carlson Show
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For Love of Country
Discussed“it's a very interesting story and she's written in a book that has just come out for love of country leave the Democratic party behind and she's joining us today to explain what exactly happened in her life”
Pod Save America
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Commander in Cheat
Discussed“And the question you face is, do you call the man a cheater, or do you keep his ball in your pocket? Rick Reilly from Sports Illustrated, it's a classic, wrote a whole book about Trump cheating at golf!”
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Warren Buffett's Ground Rules
Discussed“And remember in that speech, there was a lot about economic inequality; that was the Buffett Rule, which was based on the idea that Warren Buffett used to say that his secretary paid a higher tax rate than he did.”
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Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda
Discussed“he got really mad on Facebook about the movie Black Panther yeah he's very upset about Black Panther and said uh the character was created quote uh created by an agnostic Jew and put to film by satanic marxists and only created to pull the shekels out of your Schwartz Pockets”
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Prototype
Discussed“But I did read the Washington Post story about what McConnell said to Jonathan Martin for his book, and one thing I had forgotten about was that he apparently said to Martin, 'I feel exhilarated by the fact that this fellow—meaning Donald Trump—finally totally discredited himself.”
The Shawn Ryan Show
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Bravo Two Zero
Discussed“we were like he had his reading reading books and reading Bravo to zero and doing case studies on Bravo to zero and I'm 18 years old not real how much I'm getting pumped into me”
SmartLess
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Snacking Cakes
Recommended“Do you guys know Yosi or her cookbooks? She has this book called Snacking Cakes.”
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Dune
Discussed“I don't want to rain on your parade, but just let me know if it's now or 40 minutes. I can talk about Dune, because I have 800,000 questions. You can... you can about Dune anytime you want!”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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More ideas about parenting with less stress
Discussed“Well, that's totally in the book on how to do that. You do not solve all of your children's problems—that's the heart of love and logic.”
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Thrilled To Death
Recommended“There's a book I love called 'Thrilled to Death.' It continually presses on your nucleus accumbens, which produces dopamine, continuously pressing on the pleasure centers in your brain.”
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Thrilled to Death
Recommended“Uh, there's a a book I love called Thrilled to Death. Uh, it's continually pressing on your nucleus accumbens that produces dopamine.”
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Healing from Narcissistic Abuse
Recommended“The book is called It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People. It's available right now. Go and grab your copy today. We have just touched on the tip of the iceberg of the insights and the knowledge that's within this book.”
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
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The Notebook
Discussed“For sure, yeah, but I had read, of course, this Nicholas Sparks book! It was like targeted for someone like me, my age! And I was like, I have to do this!”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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The Longest Race
Discussed“there was one story being fed to the world and marketed and there was another story that I was actually living in her transformative New York Times seller the longest race”
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The Menopause Brain
Discussed“what's interesting your first book was called brain food like and I was like shouldn't that be the third book like first you do the neuroscience and then you do kind of like the protocol”
The Daily Stoic
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Getting Things Done
Discussed“Yeah, you go back and read David Allen, what you get, what's his goal? Occasional moments of Zen-like peace, among the mind, like there's nothing to turn you into a processing machine and a survival process you, right?”
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The Four Cardinal Virtues
Discussed“And then it's okay, we're going to do the four cardinal virtues books, we're going to, you know, really push the studio quality pod, you know, the plays. It was like you push chips in, right?”
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Drive
Recommended“Then I would read, like, I don’t know, one of your newsletter or one of your books or like 'Drive' by Dan Pink, and I'm like, oh, it's so good! This stuff is so good!”
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The Dialogues of Plato
Discussed“But he ends up in this, he ends up in this bookstore, and the bookseller is reading one of, uh, Plato's dialogues or, I know, I guess it would have been one of Zenon's books.”
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The Nineties
Discussed“Chuck Klosterman wrote a great book called The 90s, and he was sort of talking about how, um, you know, September 10th, there were newspapers all over the country, and they were all doing their own headlines about what's happening in that city.”
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The First Three Minutes
Discussed“And you know, I read a book called The First Three Minutes, which is about the first three minutes of the universe.”
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What If...
Discussed“yeah there's a whole series of books out called what if and they're fascinating”
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The Passions of the Soul
Discussed“you know there's a book called the pastors of foreign country right and it's true”
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The Past Is a Foreign Country
Discussed“you know there's a book called the pastors of foreign country right and it's true”
ChooseFI
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Doing Good Better
Recommended“so a really easy action is to go and read the life you can save by Peter Singer or doing good better by Will MCC CasCal which are both excellent entry points to this world and were a big part of Rebecca and my journey into effective giving”
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The 4-Hour Workweek
Discussed“It kind of buried the lead on, 'Hey guys, this is more of a Tim Ferriss for our workweek kind of story.'”
My First Million
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StrengthsFinder 2.0
Discussed“And they own Clifton Strengths, which is famous for StrengthsFinder 2.0. And I tried to find how much revenue they did, and I could not find anything.”
Freakonomics Radio
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The Truth About Immigration
Discussed“He's also written his first book to be published in June; it is called 'The Truth About Immigration.' It is a book full of research and facts at a moment when every conversation about immigration seems to coalesce around emotion or politics.”
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Streets of Gold
Discussed“bustan and her frequent collaborator Ron abramitzky recently published a book called streets of gold America's untold story of immigrant success”
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The Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations
Discussed“according to Fred Shapiro editor of the new Yale book of quotations the term whitewashing a deliberate attempt to cover up some dark matter this dates back to at least 1703 greenwashing”
EconTalk
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Exponential
Discussed“So, let's talk a little bit about your book to get started. It's called Exponential. Uh why?”
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The Challenge of Affluence
Recommended“You there's a wonderful book by uh economic historian called Avner Offer called The Challenge of Affluence. And the book came out in about 2002 or 2003”
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Statistics for Public Policy
Recommended“so I just want to recommend the book if those kind of ideas appeal to you uh you'll enjoy this book and it it will be useful to you um is is that a fair assessment”
Huberman Lab
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Slow Productivity
Discussed“Cal also has a new book out now which I'm currently reading entitled "Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment without Burnout."”
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Deep Work
Recommended“One of his more notable books is entitled "Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World," which has had a tremendous positive influence on my work life and indeed my life in general.”
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Unashamedly Superhuman
Discussed“One of my favorite studies in this context is a paper from Ali's lab entitled "Mind Over Milkshakes: Mindsets, Not Just Nutrients, Determine the Ghrelin Response."”
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Placebo Effects
Recommended“It's called none other than Placebo effects understanding the other side of medical care and the book is by fabrio Benedetti”
The Charlie Kirk Show
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The College Scam
Discussed“even though I loved your book The College scam”
