Week 2020-W12
Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2020-W12
21 books, grouped by podcast.
Lex Fridman Podcast
Discussed Start with Why
“the following is a conversation with simon Sinek author of several books including start with why leaders eat last and his latest the infinite game”
Discussed Leaders Eat Last
“the following is a conversation with simon Sinek author of several books including start with why leaders eat last and his latest the infinite game”
Discussed The Infinite Game
“the following is a conversation with simon Sinek author of several books including start with why leaders eat last and his latest the infinite game”
Discussed Darkest End of the Street
“so James Carr was the philosopher who originally articulated this concept of finite and infinite games and when I learned about it it really challenged my view of how the world works”
“when I was in 12th grade I got my hands on a PDF copy in Romania of Russell Norvig a I modern approach”
Discussed Digital Gold
“So prefer historical ones and there's like nathaniel poppers digital gold which is just about the history of bitcoin”
Discussed Ethereum
“there's like one and then matthew lysing announced that there's one about the history of ethereum”
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Discussed Il futuro della vita
“40% of the bacteria in the oceans are killed every day by viruses This is a great stat that Jennifer Doudna uses in her book that on the discovery of CRISPR”
The Joe Rogan Experience
Discussed John
“That's one King James book a John baby hit that on acid It's so wonderful It's so trippy Because it's like that's when I really like Christianity clicked for me regardless of its whether it's real or not but that's when I was like okay I get this because the book of John When you read it you're like well”
“What I'm trying to say is Ted Kaczynski was right Oh my god we all know that he was right Do you ever read his manifesto”
Discussed The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep
“There's a okay so this is a trip this this is very trippy So I got this book called the Tibetan yoga of dream and sleep Well I feel like it's [ __ ] cool”
Discussed Dawn of the New Everything
“There's a book of his I like better than that called the dawn of the new everything But and that's just him sort of like talking about what it was like working in Silicon Valley back then and his sort of opinions on on this stuff”
Discussed High Magick
“so well he wrote a great book called high magic which is I think that's what's called it's a fantastic book on magic is really the wrong word”
Discussed The Book of Ezekiel, Chapters 25–48
“so throughout the Bible there's mentions of angels the Book of Ezekiel the famous one that ufo-ologists go to is there's all these contacts with angels a hyperdimensional beings that have some data set they want to bring to the world”
Discussed Avventure in Oriente. A Cura Di Luigi Barzini, Jr., Etc. [With Plates, Including a Portrait.].
“oh my god this super super cool experience especially you have to read in that book”
Discussed The Yugo
“so one of the best car books ever that John you know Johnny Lee Berman right yes dear friend Johnny had recommended it's called the worst car ever built and it's the story of the Hugo”
Discussed Grasses of the Queen Elizabeth Islands
“until I read empire of the summer moon and then you know have you read that SG Queens book about the Comanches and about the Texas Rangers”
Discussed Son of the Morning Star
“and then I read son of the morning star and then I read Black Elk”
Discussed Black Elk Speaks
“and then I read son of the morning star and then I read Black Elk the black alcohol was particularly fascinating to me because it details life before like before they killed Custer to living on reservations to the desperation”
Discussed Custer Died for Your Sins
“one of which is vine deloria who is passed on but he he was an attorney and a scholar and wrote a book in the late 60s early 70s called custard died for your sins and it was no it's known as the Indian manifesto right”
Discussed Red Earth, White Lies
“He also wrote a book called red earth White Lies and he talks about Western science and and it's arrogance of of creating these theories like the Bering Strait land bridge”