Week 2020-W34
Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2020-W34
21 books, grouped by podcast.
Lex Fridman Podcast
Discussed Peak
“a a good book to read if you want that sense is peak which essentially talks about peak performance in a lot of different ways”
Discussed The Poetical Works of Alexander Smith
“what garnered my attention when i was a young punk was just a single line in an essay by a scottish guy it was alexander smith in in a book called dreamthwarp i think it's written in the 1860s”
Discussed escape from evil
“i don't know how you pulled this off but he had one more after he died called escape from evil”
Discussed Birth and Death of Meaning
“um there's another book the birth and death of meaning uh which is framed um in from an evolutionary perspective”
“you said you picked up becker's book and you know it felt like it was onto something that's the same thing i felt when i picked up becker's book”
“that would basically be like stephen pinker's blank slate”
Discussed Second Treatise of Government
“and he starts in his second treatise on government 1690 or so”
Discussed Darwin's Cathedral
“so it's david sloane wilson wrote a book called darwin's cathedral and he said religion has nothing to do with death”
Discussed False Dawn
“he wrote a book about globalism”
Discussed Totalitarianism
“and actually hannah arendt in the 1950s said the same thing in her book about totalitarianism when she said that you know that economics has reached the point where most money is made not by actually making stuff”
Discussed In the Name of Identity
“and so there's a guy named amin malouf a lebanese guy who writes in french who in the 1990s i think wrote a book called in the name of identity violence and the need to belong”
Discussed An Arabic Zoological Dictionary
“and so there's a guy named amin malouf a lebanese guy who writes in french who in the 1990s i think wrote a book called in the name of identity violence and the need to belong”
Discussed Consciousness Regained
“another possibility is uh nicholas humphrey a british dude who wrote a book about i think it's called regaining consciousness”
Discussed Walden
“and evidently uh thoreau sold like 75 copies of walden”
Discussed Deer Disassembly
“it's eric fromm uh in a book called escape from freedom he's like look you”
Discussed Charter Schools and Their Enemies
“thomas soul uh wrote a book about uh recent book on um charter schools”
Discussed Clock Without Hands
“i i'm enamored with a novel by a woman named carson mccullers written in 1953 called clock without hands”
Discussed Being and Time
“and it took me 40 years to read being in time”
Discussed Absalom, Absalom!
“i like faulkner absalom absalom is is a fine book”
Discussed The Decline of the West
“but there's another lunatic oswald spangler who wrote a book called decline of the west”
Discussed Speak, Memory
“and now let me leave you with some words from vladimir nabokov that sheldon uses in his book warm at the core the cradle rocks above and abyss and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness”