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Ryan Peterman's book list: the books mentioned on The Peterman Pod
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Never Split the Difference
Recommended“I would recommend people read the book uh Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss on negotiation because it's all about the psychology of how to get other people into your framing.”
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Clean Code
Critiqued“So the reason I put that in quotes is I was talking about a very specific thing which is like literally like the book clean code like the thing where there's like here are the things that we would recommend that you do”
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Four Thousand Weeks
Recommended“Yes, I love the book 4,000 Weeks. I'm not sure if you've read it. I haven't. What's it about? Oh, highly recommended by Oliver. Oh, man. I'm gonna pull out the last name. But 4,000 weeks.”
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Recommended“What I still, you know, regard as like, you know, the, the, the, the, the best novel or my, my, my real favorite is, is, is, is, is Huckleberry Finn, right? Which I think is just probing, you know, the nature of morality more deeply than, than almost maybe anything else I've read.”
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Recommended“yeah i guess i really liked um ddia designing data intensive applications i i just spoke with somebody a month ago and they were telling me that they they did read through it but for them like most of it didn't really stick”
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Leadership and Self-Deception
Recommended“So, my all-time favorite book on this has uh is called Leadership and Self-Deception by the Arbinger Institute. It's a book that explains uh how we sometimes treat other people as objects without meaning to.”
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The 48 Laws of Power
Recommended“Um, the third book, even though I hate to recommend it for all your interest in dark side, is that 48 laws of power, it's a very thorough catalog of the dark ways people think and manipulative tricks.”
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The Mind-Body Problem
Recommended“A novel that had a really big impact on me was, uh, was called The Mind-Body Problem by Rebecca Goldstein. Um, it's, it's just a, it's a novel about, uh, like, a, a, a woman who marries a mathematician.”
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Alan Turing: The Enigma
Discussed“I was also very, very affected as a kid by reading biographies of scientists, uh, especially, uh, Alan Turing, the Enigma by Andrew Hodges. Uh, uh, uh, the man who knew infinity, which is a biography of, of, uh, Ramanujan.”
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Moneyball
Discussed“So I'm going to use a baseball analogy from the book Moneyball. You can either bat for like on base percentage and I want to swing to get a safe trip to first base and that's actually easier than trying to hit a home run, but if what you want is the home run, you got to swing hard and”
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Notes on Structured Programming
Discussed“Say uh he wrote a a thing called notes on structured programming. It was a manuscript or monograph. I don't I don't remember what they called, you know, got like a typewritten like it looks like exactly like a typewriter written thing, right?”
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Refactoring
Critiqued“can just include a thing that's basically like hey um you know there's performance issues but most of the time it's not a problem or something like that which is you know or if you look at uh refactoring the book refactoring very popular”
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Structured Programming
Discussed“And yeah and Canuth did something similar. It wasn't really a flame because he had a at least when reading it comes through as a tremendous amount of respect for the authors of the book structured programming which is uh Dystra and doll.”
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The Man Who Knew Infinity
Discussed“The man who knew infinity, which is a biography of, of, uh, Ramanujan. Um, and then, uh, I read, uh, uh, biographies of Feynman and of course his, his, his autobiographies. Um, and because I felt like this is the world that I am trying to enter, right?”
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Recommended The Mind-Body Problem
“A novel that had a really big impact on me was, uh, was called The Mind-Body Problem by Rebecca Goldstein. Um, it's, it's just a, it's a novel about, uh, like, a, a, a woman who marries a mathematician.”
Discussed Alan Turing: The Enigma
“I was also very, very affected as a kid by reading biographies of scientists, uh, especially, uh, Alan Turing, the Enigma by Andrew Hodges. Uh, uh, uh, the man who knew infinity, which is a biography of, of, uh, Ramanujan.”
Discussed The Man Who Knew Infinity
“The man who knew infinity, which is a biography of, of, uh, Ramanujan. Um, and then, uh, I read, uh, uh, biographies of Feynman and of course his, his, his autobiographies. Um, and because I felt like this is the world that I am trying to enter, right?”
Recommended Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“What I still, you know, regard as like, you know, the, the, the, the, the best novel or my, my, my real favorite is, is, is, is, is Huckleberry Finn, right? Which I think is just probing, you know, the nature of morality more deeply than, than almost maybe anything else I've read.”
Recommended Designing Data-Intensive Applications
“yeah i guess i really liked um ddia designing data intensive applications i i just spoke with somebody a month ago and they were telling me that they they did read through it but for them like most of it didn't really stick”
Recommended Never Split the Difference
“I would recommend people read the book uh Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss on negotiation because it's all about the psychology of how to get other people into your framing.”
Recommended Leadership and Self-Deception
“So, my all-time favorite book on this has uh is called Leadership and Self-Deception by the Arbinger Institute. It's a book that explains uh how we sometimes treat other people as objects without meaning to.”
Recommended The 48 Laws of Power
“Um, the third book, even though I hate to recommend it for all your interest in dark side, is that 48 laws of power, it's a very thorough catalog of the dark ways people think and manipulative tricks.”
Discussed Moneyball
“So I'm going to use a baseball analogy from the book Moneyball. You can either bat for like on base percentage and I want to swing to get a safe trip to first base and that's actually easier than trying to hit a home run, but if what you want is the home run, you got to swing hard and”
Recommended Four Thousand Weeks
“Yes, I love the book 4,000 Weeks. I'm not sure if you've read it. I haven't. What's it about? Oh, highly recommended by Oliver. Oh, man. I'm gonna pull out the last name. But 4,000 weeks.”
Discussed Notes on Structured Programming
“Say uh he wrote a a thing called notes on structured programming. It was a manuscript or monograph. I don't I don't remember what they called, you know, got like a typewritten like it looks like exactly like a typewriter written thing, right?”
Discussed Structured Programming
“And yeah and Canuth did something similar. It wasn't really a flame because he had a at least when reading it comes through as a tremendous amount of respect for the authors of the book structured programming which is uh Dystra and doll.”
Critiqued Clean Code
“So the reason I put that in quotes is I was talking about a very specific thing which is like literally like the book clean code like the thing where there's like here are the things that we would recommend that you do”
Critiqued Refactoring
“can just include a thing that's basically like hey um you know there's performance issues but most of the time it's not a problem or something like that which is you know or if you look at uh refactoring the book refactoring very popular”
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