Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2020-W45

“We'll link to your other book touching the jaguar Which is not about uh killing people in plane crashes if they don't go into debt”

“and um the way i found to do that was to write a book about it and so the book that you previously referenced it's called a practical way to get rich and die trying is my memoir and it's everything i just shared in excruciating detail”

“And so i wrote a book about this process of shipping creative work and it counters so many of the myths that people have about what does it mean to even be creative”

“you know i discovered the war of art 10 years ago when i was writing linchpin i can't believe no one told me about it beforehand”

“and you know kevin kelly's book what technology wants is a must read it will change the way you see so many of these issues”

“this long-standing problem is robert j lifton a psycho historian who i'm fond of in a book called destroying the world to save it he's like wow we may be the first form of life to be responsible for our own extinction because of our inability to get along with folks who are different than ourselves”

“uh there's a book by a famous guy he's a primatologist michael tomasello at the max planck institute in germany it's called becoming human and i think that a human being raised under those conditions would be pretty much like a great ape”

“and a guy named c wright mills in a book called the power elite written in the 1950s he made the same point and that's that most of us”

“Yeah, I think that's one that I absolutely is important, and this kind of brings us to our final section here, which is that one of the most important books I think for Marshall and I was Michael Lind's 'New Class War,' which we've talked a lot about here on the podcast, and he makes a point you know, in”

“I've been inspired by Peter Thiel's vision that we have too much innovation in the world of bits but not enough in the world of atoms, in 'rust out' that refers to this age of decadence. It seems that one of the reasons many boomers and others struggle to think critically about today’s politics is that we haven't lived in”

“Okay you're also the author of X Plus y a mathematician's Manifesto for rethinking gender oh you're getting all into all kinds of stuff”

“i ended up buying a gentleman in moscow”

“and then when i became a monk i studied and taught that book for three years full time”

“I said look you know about 2 000 years ago there was this chinese general who wrote a book called the article and one of the things some somebody wrote a business book late years later called the art of the deal which is yeah and and but in in the art of war sun tzu says when you're an”

“Tim i hope you still use your nj post office address sent you three books and you really need to read through okay harbinger oracle and harbinger two sweet Even lauren would be interested in those books Hope they got to you”

“james jones who wrote uh uh books like from here to eternity fictional accounts of the second world war but he based them on his own service”

“unless we don't have the mongol point of view per se i mean there's something called the secret history of the mongols and there's things written down by mongolian overlords through people like persian and chinese scribes later we don't have their point of view”

“i read a book a while back i want to say george friedman the stratfor guy wrote it was something called the next hundred years i think it was called and i remember thinking um i didn't agree with any of it”