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Every book Anjney Midha recommended on podcasts
Across 2 podcasts. Every show Anjney Midha appears on, in one place — not just one.
Anjney Midha is a technology investor and executive who has discussed several notable books across appearances on podcasts such as Sources with Alex Heath and The Ben & Marc Show. During his interview on Sources with Alex Heath, Midha reflected on his time as a sophomore student attending Peter Thiel's very first startup class at Stanford, known as CS183B or How to Start a Startup. He described how fellow student Blake Masters, with the assistance of Mike Solana, compiled and turned the classroom lecture notes into the bestselling book Zero to One, authored by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters. Later, during an episode of The Ben & Marc Show, Midha and his co-hosts referenced Rick Rubin's book The Creative Act: A Way of Being, highlighting the subtitle as an illustrative phrase for understanding creative work and audience service. In the same discussion about art and software creation, the hosts also mentioned Rick Rubin's book The Way of Code, interpreting it as a window into understanding how Rubin creatively vibed with himself during the artistic creation process.
Books recommended by Anjney Midha
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The Creative Act
The Creative Act: A Way of Being is a guide to harnessing artistic perspective and spiritual approaches to creativity by legendary music producer Rick Rubin.
Discussed“Like the the uh in the creative act, the the subtitle is um a way of being.”
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The Way of the Code
Discussed“My takeaway is basically that you're saying we've got to vibe with ourselves when using these tools and watching and reading the way of code is basically a window into watching how you Rick vibed with yourself in the creation of this.”
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Zero to One
Zero to One by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters is a prominent business and technology book that challenges conventional startup thinking.
Discussed“As a sophomore, I had the, I was lucky enough to take Peter Thiel's first sort of zero-to-one class. It was called CS183B, How to Start a Startup. And that, you know, one of the students was Blake Masters in the class, and Blake turned it in, you know, wrote up the notes with Mike Solana's help, and they turned”
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Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
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| 'AI Coachella' Stanford prof on data center backlash | Sources with Alex Heath | 2026-05-07 | 1 |
| Rick Rubin: Vibe Coding is the Punk Rock of Software | The Ben & Marc Show | 2025-05-31 | 3 |
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
“It's funny because I have read the da Jing, but only because I have a friend who's a professor of Chinese who did a translation and I was like, "Oh, well, I'll read that."”