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Every book Seth Stephens-Davidowitz recommended on podcasts
Key facts
- Seth Stephens-Davidowitz has recommended or discussed 7 books on podcasts, as of May 16, 2022.
- Seth Stephens-Davidowitz has talked about books on 2 podcasts, as of May 16, 2022.
- Those books came up in 2 episodes, as of May 16, 2022.
- The 3 books Seth Stephens-Davidowitz has mentioned in the most episodes, as of May 16, 2022: Dataclysm, The Sports Gene and Capital in the Twenty-First Century.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Seth Stephens-Davidowitz aired on May 16, 2022.
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Across 2 podcasts. Every show Seth Stephens-Davidowitz appears on, in one place, not just one.
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz’s most mentioned books
- Dataclysm by Christian Rudder
- The Sports Gene by David Epstein
- Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
- Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Vanished Smile by R.A. Scotti
Seth Isaac Stephens-Davidowitz is an American data scientist, economist, and author. He has worked as a New York Times op-ed contributor, a data scientist at Google, as well as a visiting lecturer at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has published research using Google Trends search data, as well as data from Wikipedia and Facebook, to gain real-time insights into people's thoughts and beliefs that they may be unwilling to admit publicly. On podcasts, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz recommended David Epstein's The Sports Gene while discussing genetics in sports, and Christian Rudder's Dataclysm while discussing dating data. He also discussed review copies of his own book Don't Trust Your Gut, praised Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner's Freakonomics, referenced Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century and Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow in the context of Kindle underlining statistics, and mentioned reading R.A. Scotti's Vanished Smile regarding the history of the Mona Lisa.
Books Seth Stephens-Davidowitz recommended or discussed
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Dataclysm
Recommended“People may have heard of it, but I if you haven't, you need to know it. Uh Christian Rudder wrote this excellent book Dataclysm”
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The Sports Gene
Recommended“yeah there's this book Sports Gene by David Epstein which I loved so David Epson was a guest he was an excellent guest”
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Discussed“Thomas picketty's book on Capital and Daniel kahneman's book thinking fast and slow”
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Don't Trust Your Gut
Discussed“I sent the book out to a bunch of people and a couple of the writers have been like I want to write about your book but could you do a nerdy makeover for me”
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Freakonomics
Discussed“so Freakonomics I love all your books yeah to be fair just about anything you write at this point is going to get a good advance and pretty good sales”
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Discussed“Thomas picketty's book on Capital and Daniel kahneman's book thinking fast and slow and he found that the rate at which sentences were underlined dramatically decreased towards the end of the books I think there were three percent as many underlying lines at the end of thing fast and slow is at the beginning of thing fast and slow”
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Vanished Smile
Discussed“Oh yeah, that the Mona Lisa I didn't realize this, I read a book Vanished Smile, that the Mona Lisa was just an ordinary painting”
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Books Seth Stephens-Davidowitz wrote
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| How To Live The Perfect Life, Using Data - Seth Stephens-Davidowitz - #474 | Modern Wisdom | 2022-05-16 | 2 |
| Self-Help for Data Nerds | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 75 | People I (Mostly) Admire | 2022-05-14 | 5 |
Other mentions (11: passing, ad reads, own books)
“I remember when you first reached out to me to talk about my first book, Everybody Lies, and I I think I looked you up and you're like a two-bit podcaster.”
“And like, everybody who's read my book so far, which I'm just going to say that You're supposed to say the name a lot, Don't Trust Your Gut, so people will remember it.”
“Mean, anybody read Don't Trust Your Gut would be like, this guy's pretty nerdy, like uh there's this one study where they list the happy”
“in one of my And that's what I recommend people get as an iPhone case or hang it on your wall or whatever.”
“I actually in my first book, Everybody Lies, I talk a lot about that and the difference between like so- social media and real life”
“And you see the happiness activity chart that that I include in Don't Trust Your Gut.”
“Like Everybody Lies, my first book, and now they're going to give me kind of the benefit of the doubt in Don't Trust Your Gut.”
“Like Everybody Lies, my first book, and now they're going to give me kind of the benefit of the doubt in Don't Trust Your Gut.”
“and actually everybody lies which is about people lying the final chapter in my book was titled how many people finished books”
“I wrote everybody lies I'm trying to write”
“and I analyze in everybody lies about the whole section where I analyze just porn up what people actually want”