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Every book Antonio Garcia Martinez recommended on podcasts
Across 4 podcasts. Every show Antonio Garcia Martinez appears on, in one place — not just one.
Antonio Garcia Martinez’s most recommended books
- Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis
- Startup by Jerry Kaplan
- The Sirens' Call by Chris Hayes
- The end of history by Francis Fukuyama
- The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
- The Frenzy of Renown by Leo Braudy
- The Talmud by Jacob Neusner
- The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
- Work Pray Code by Carolyn Chen
Antonio Garcia Martinez is a Spanish cyclist. He is LC3 type cyclist. He is a chemical engineer. He competed at the 1996 Summer Paralympics, the 2000 Summer Paralympics, the 2004 Summer Paralympics, and the 2008 Summer Paralympics. He finished first in the Combined Road LC3 race. During his podcast appearances, Martínez recommended and discussed a selection of books. On the a16z Podcast, he plugged Chris Hayes's book The Sirens' Call as a phenomenal read and mentioned starting Leo Braudy's The Frenzy of Renown based on Hayes's recommendation. On Big Technology Podcast, Martínez named Jerry Kaplan's Startup as an interesting insider-tech book that he reread prior to writing his own work. He also referenced religious and philosophical texts, citing Jacob Neusner's translation of The Talmud to describe Jewish debate and William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience for a definition of religion, while discussing the gonzo tone and startup focus of his own book, Chaos Monkeys.
Books recommended by Antonio Garcia Martinez
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Chaos Monkeys
Chaos Monkeys by Antonio Garcia Martinez is an insider account of the Silicon Valley startup ecosystem and modern digital advertising.
Discussed“Chaos Monkeys is like a Mormon picnic compared to like an average episode of Seinfeld from whenever, I don't know what year that episode came out but the show was big in like what, the 90s and so I would just say that many things have changed”
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Liar's Poker
Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis is a semi-autobiographical financial book detailing the author's chaotic experiences as a bond salesman at Salomon Brothers during the explosive Wall Street culture of the 1980s.
Discussed“and then i read a book that funnily enough the New York Times is comparing my book to which i find extraordinarily flattering i don't know if i quite believe it but i read michael lewis's liars poker which uh was sort of the gateway drug for finance”
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Startup
Startup by Jerry Kaplan is an insider account of the technology industry and the entrepreneurial journey behind early tech ventures.
Recommended“Before Chaos Monkeys came out, I tried thinking of like, what's the last like insider tech book that's not some dumb like LinkedIn thought influencer bullshit like an actual interesting piece of literary nonfiction. The only one I could think of is a book called Startup by Jerry Kaplan”
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The Sirens' Call
The Sirens' Call by Chris Hayes examines the modern battle for human attention and how constant digital stimulation has turned focus into an endangered resource.
Recommended“which by the way I I think I think it's time we just plug Chris's book I think you wrote a phenomenal book actually thanks and I would recommend it to most of my ads”
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The end of history
The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama is a political philosophy book arguing that the worldwide spread of liberal democracies may signal the final endpoint of humanity's ideological evolution.
Discussed“i don't know if you've read uh fukuyama's book end of history which is very mischaracterized generally but he has a final chapter in which he has a quote that i think about that more or less expresses what you're saying”
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The End of History and the Last Man
The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama is a prominent political science and philosophy book arguing that the worldwide spread of liberal democracies may signal the endpoint of humanity's sociocultural evolution.
Discussed“i don't know if you've read uh fukuyama's book end of history which is very mischaracterized generally but he has a final chapter in which he has a quote that i think about that more or less expresses what you're saying”
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The Frenzy of Renown
Discussed“One thing I find interesting of the impact of social media I mean you cite a lot of the negative impacts of social media and you cite one book the frenzy of renown that I actually started reading based on your recommendation actually.”
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The Talmud
The Talmud is a central text of Rabbinic Judaism comprising discussions and interpretations of Jewish law, ethics, and customs.
Discussed“I mean, calling Bolshev on something is like the most Jewish thing ever. I mean, literally, if you read the Talmud, I mean, the Jews invented Reddit before Reddit, obviously.”
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The Varieties of Religious Experience
The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James is a foundational work of psychology and philosophy based on the author's landmark lectures on human consciousness and spirituality.
Discussed“You know, I think religion, I think Walter Benjamin has a quote in which he said, or no, it's William James, sorry, in the varieties of religious experience that religion is the belief that there's some unseen order to which human society should be converging towards, right?”
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Work Pray Code
Discussed“i interviewed a berkeley professor sociologist named carolyn chen wrote a book called work pray code that's kind of a sociological take on this”
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Books Antonio Garcia Martinez wrote
Appearances
Other mentions (6: passing, ad reads, own books)
“Um wrote a book about that time called Chaos Monkeys that came out in 2017 that they read well. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I quoted it in the book.”
“I'm gonna be that guy self. I think I have a line in Cows Monkeys that says, you know, Andy Warhol was wrong.”
“The book was marketed and framed as like like a Michael Lewis, like an early Michael Lewis Liar's Poker type romp through a field and it was written as such”
“The only one I could think of is a book called Startup by Jerry Kaplan that came out in like 1998 or something which is actually a pretty good book. I went and reread it before I wrote Chaos Monkeys”
“i uh after this book this chaos monkeys thing that uh caused some trouble for me at apple i uh cause like i'm a very like ambiguous media personality”
“book was called chaos monkeys which i can explain the title if you want if you want me to explain it but basically long story short phd student drop out of the phd go to work at wall street”