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Every book Alex Kantrowitz recommended on podcasts
Alex Kantrowitz’s most recommended books
- Magic Pill by Johann Hari
- I Am Not a Robot by Joanna Stern
- The AGI Chronicles by Kevin Roose
- The Sirens' Call by Chris Hayes
- Exit Interview by Kristi Coulter
- A World Appears by Michael Pollan
- HOW TO MAKE MONEY IN ANY MARKET. by JIM. CRAMER
- Read Write Own by Chris Dixon
- The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
- How to Save the Internet by Nick Clegg
Books recommended by Alex Kantrowitz
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Always Day One
Always Day One by Alex Kantrowitz is a non-fiction book that explores the inner workings of major technology giants like Amazon, Google, Apple, and Facebook to uncover how they maintain a startup mentality and relentless innovation.
Discussed“I mean it's all I mean I wrote a book with this title but it is always day one really really sort of felt that way beforehand but in this world you can't be tied to any legacy”
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Magic Pill
Magic Pill by Johann Hari investigates the rise of modern GLP-1 weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, examining both their potential benefits and the broader societal implications of relying on pharmaceutical interventions for metabolic health.
Recommended“He's a New York Times best-selling author, and his new book, Magic Pill, The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight Loss Drugs, is out in any bookstore you could hope for, and I've read it. It's a terrific book.”
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I Am Not a Robot
Recommended“All right, the book is I Am Not a Robot by Joanna Stern. Definitely go check it out.”
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The AGI Chronicles
The AGI Chronicles by Kevin Roose provides a behind-the-scenes look at the fierce technological race to develop artificial superintelligence among major artificial intelligence companies.
Discussed“Um the the thing that struck me cuz I read the book, you can see. By the way, it's a video. looks read. I read it through and through, cover to cover. Um the theme in the book, of course, is the building of AI, but it's also the drama.”
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The Sirens' Call
The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource by Chris Hayes investigates the modern economy of human attention and the ways digital systems capture and monetize focus.
Discussed“but it is interesting and you even talk about in your book just the way and we're going to get into Big Tech, but the way that you hold people's attention through the hour or through a couple hours on TV.”
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Exit Interview
Recommended“She's a 12-year Amazon veteran and the author of Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career. It's out this week. Definitely encourage you to pick it up. I enjoyed reading it very much.”
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A World Appears
A World Appears by Michael Pollan is a non-fiction journey into consciousness that explores meditation, psychedelics, and the nature of the self.
Discussed“He is the author of the book A World Appears, a journey into consciousness, that is out this week from Penguin Press.”
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HOW TO MAKE MONEY IN ANY MARKET.
Recommended“And we're back here on Big Technology Podcast with Jim Kramer, host of Mad Money and the author of this great book, How to Make Money in Any Market. Definitely recommend picking it up.”
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Read Write Own
Read Write Own by Chris Dixon is an exploration of blockchain technology, artificial intelligence, and the decentralized architecture shaping the future of the internet.
Critiqued“Let's briefly touch upon Chris Dixon's book read write own. So this is a book basically extoling the virtues of crypto and telling die hards that it ain't over yet, folks.”
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The Anxious Generation
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt examines the profound psychological impacts of smartphones and social media on youth mental health and the resulting loneliness crisis.
Discussed“We've had Jonathan Haidt on the show talking a little bit about his um his book and his and his philosophy about kids and tech, which we're going to talk about.”
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How to Save the Internet
Recommended“And we're back here with Nick Kle. You should check out his new book, How to Save the Internet: The Threat to Global Connection in the Age of AI and Political Conflict. I've read it through as you can see if you're watching on video.”
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The Cost of Conflict
Recommended“And we're back here with Nick Kle. You should check out his new book, How to Save the Internet: The Threat to Global Connection in the Age of AI and Political Conflict. I've read it through as you can see if you're watching on video.”
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The Second Machine Age
The Second Machine Age by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee is a prominent non-fiction book that explores the exponential power of digital technologies, artificial intelligence, and how the computer revolution is fundamentally reshaping modern economics and society.
Recommended“he is a professor and senior fellow at stanford university director of the digital economy lab there and author of co-author of a great book the second machine age which i recommend you pick up eric”
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Superagency
Discussed“I want to speak more about your book which I think is sort of like a in some ways a Manifesto um to the world talking about the positive uses of AI and why that book uh needed to be written”
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Superintelligence
Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom is a speculative nonfiction book that examines the potential paths, risks, and existential threats of creating artificial intelligence that vastly surpasses human intellect.
Discussed“Um, and some of the worries that you had brought up in the past in your book, Super Intelligence, um, the fears of like AI potentially wiping us out didn't seem like they were pressing.”
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1929
1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin is a comprehensive historical account examining the catastrophic stock market crash and the profound ways it shattered the American nation.
Discussed“Um so the book is 1929. Y uh 20 weeks on the bestseller list. Congratulations. Thank you. The thing that's kind of scary is I think part of the reason why it's I mean it's about something that happened about a hundred years ago”
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Empire of Orgasm
Discussed“There's also this core I I I think I read about this in your book. Um this core ideology to it.”
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The Contrarian
The Contrarian by Max Chafkin is an investigative biography examining the career, political ideology, and growing influence of Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel.
Discussed“so why is he so important that you became you know obsessed in the way that got you to write a book and you know we're about to spend about an hour talking about him”
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman is a popular science book exploring behavioral economics, cognitive biases, and the dual systems that drive human thought.
Discussed“had some time off and decided that i was going to read a book i wanted to get around to for a long time thinking fast and slow by the nobel prize winning professor daniel kahneman”
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Amazon Unbound
Amazon Unbound by Brad Stone is a business biography and investigative book that explores the later years of Amazon, the leadership style and ventures of Jeff Bezos, and the tech giant's massive societal footprint.
Recommended“join us next week we will have brad stone the author of the new book amazon unbound i'm halfway through the book quite enjoying it”
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The other 12 books Alex Kantrowitz recommended or discussed, ranked
- Deep Utopia by Nick Bostrom
- Filterworld by Kyle Chayka
- Going Infinite by Michael Lewis
- If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies by Eliezer Yudkowsky
- Nexus by Ramez Naam
- Privacy is Power by Carissa Veliz
- The Blind Spot by Adam Frank
- The Ethics of Privacy and Surveillance by Carissa Véliz
- The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
- The making of the atomic bomb by Richard Rhodes
- The man who knew by Sebastian Mallaby
- Tim O'Reilly in a Nutshell by Tim O'Reilly
Books Alex Kantrowitz wrote
Appearances
Other mentions (63: passing, ad reads, own books), the 30 most recent
Plugged The AGI Chronicles
“He's the author of the AGI Chronicles, a book looking into what is going on within the AI labs, what they're building, whether we should be afraid of it, and of course the potential of this technology.”
Passing The AGI Chronicles
“I did think about writing the Dario book. I never even got the story into a proposal. Um doing a podcast read it. But Appreciate it. Do it but doing a podcast twice a week, writing the newsletter, uh I I would like to write another book.”
“He's also the author of this book, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, uh which is a New York Times bestseller, and MIRI has been sounding the alarm the longest.”
“The book is If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. Nate Soares here with us today, president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. Nate, I appreciate your time.”
Passing Deep Utopia
“He is the uh famed AI philosopher and author of Deep Utopia and Super Intelligence: Paths, Dangers, and Strategies.”
Passing Superintelligence
“He is the uh famed AI philosopher and author of Deep Utopia and Super Intelligence: Paths, Dangers, and Strategies.”
Passing Deep Utopia
“He is a philosopher, the author of Deep Utopia and Super Intelligence. Um Nick, question for you.”
Passing Superintelligence
“He is a philosopher, the author of Deep Utopia and Super Intelligence. Um Nick, question for you.”
Passing Co-Existence
“Oh, so he has a book, AI Coexistence, coming out in the fall, according to the story. I don't think it's going to be about how these people coexist within Anthropik.”
Plugged I Am Not a Robot
“Joanna Stern is here. She is the author of I Am Not a Robot, My Year Using AI to do almost everything.”
Plugged I Am Not a Robot
“She is the author of I Am Not a Robot, My Year Using AI to do almost everything.”
Plugged Prophecy
“We're here with Oxford philosopher Carissa Veliz, who has a new book out this week called Prophecy, Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future from Ancient Oracles to AI, talking all about prediction and what it means for our society.”
Plugged Prophecy
“And we're back here on Big Technology Podcast with Carissa Véliz. She's an Oxford philosopher and the author of Prophecy, Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future from Ancient Oracles to AI. Great title.”
Plugged Prophecy
“The book is Prophecy, Prediction, Power and the Fight for the Future from Ancient Oracles to AI. Cris of Liz, so great to have you. Thank you for coming on the show.”
Passing I Am Not a Robot
“We're here with Joanna Stern of The New Things and the author of I'm new I am not a robot and I'm going to break this news to her right here on camera.”
Passing 1929
“Let's talk about it with Andrew Rosorin of CNBC and the the bestselling book 1929 who's here with us in studio today. Andrew, great to see you.”
Passing 1929
“He He just pointed for those uh for those listening, he pointed to the book 1929, and I'm thinking maybe maybe Notebook LLM could put together an awesome podcast on 1929.”
Passing 1929
“And we're back here on Big Technology Podcast with Andrew Oorin. He's the author of this great new book 1929 20 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.”
Passing 1929
“All right, the book is 1929. Andrew Ross us. Thank you for having me.”
Passing The Hunger Games
“you just sort of like you said, you like have like a simulation hunger games or something like that, right?”
Passing Empire of Orgasm
“It's called Empire of Orgasm: Sex, Power, and the Downfall of a Wellness Cult. Wild title.”
Passing Empire of Orgasm
“Author of because you ripped off the cover of orgasm. I'm sorry for doing that, Ellen. It was not personal. It's totally okay. But again, didn't want to just a little juicy for home life.”
Passing Empire of Orgasm
“If you are with us on YouTube or Spotify, uh, next Wednesday, Ellen U, the author of a book titled The Empire of Orgasm, is going to come on to talk about group think in Silicon Valley.”
Plugged How to Save the Internet
“Today we are joined by Sir Nick Kle, the former president of global affairs at Meta and the former deputy prime minister of the UK and the author of this great new book, How to Save the Internet: The Threat to Global Connection in the Age of AI and Political Conflict.”
Plugged The Cost of Conflict
“Today we are joined by Sir Nick Kle, the former president of global affairs at Meta and the former deputy prime minister of the UK and the author of this great new book, How to Save the Internet: The Threat to Global Connection in the Age of AI and Political Conflict.”
Passing Building a Second Brain
“Goodness gracious, the amount of work that went into build it's called building a second brain. Yeah. It's like you your your entire first brain is being used to build this second brain. I'm sure it worked well for some people.”
Plugged Always Day One
“I wrote this book about workplaces. Uh the workplaces of the big tech companies um including Amazon was the first chapter. The book is called Always Day One.”
Plugged Always Day One
“I was covering Amazon long before that as as a reporter and wrote this book called Always Day One. And this is why I was upset that I didn't follow up.”
Plugged Always Day One
“So, I came in when I came into my reporting, I wrote a book book title Always Day One. I came in thinking that Day One mentality meant that you just kind of work 24/7 and you have that relentlessness.”
Plugged Always Day One
“So Nick, you and I spoke for my book, Always Day One, which was a book about reinvention. Y and the idea was there are going to be technology shifts that tech companies are going to have to deal with, and the ones that stay relevant are the ones that get ahead of change.”