Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2022-W50

“Let me go back to Edward and I want to tell you about this guy Larry Miller who wrote a book that I think everybody should read it's called driven an autobiography by Larry Miller right”

“but I read this like 700 Page biography which changed my [ __ ] life and it's called uh Michael Jordan uh the life I think by Roland Lazenby”

“I give uh Eric jorgensen's the almanac and of all a lot away a lot”

“I give uh Eric jorgensen's the almanac and of all a lot away a lot”

“That is a cover of Ernest Shackleton this is fantastic book written by Alfred Lansing called endurance right”

“so then you go and you read there's not a lot of material on second thing but I read everything I could find and I didn't uh a podcast on this book called The Outsiders which is one of the very few books that profiles what what made Singleton”

“the code name for what turns into Amazon inside the hedge fund was called the everything store like that is why the biography by Brad Stone is called the everything store”

“He literally did there's this great book called tycoon's War and it's about this guy I think his name's William Walker”

“so one of the craziest books I ever read um was this book called hard drive uh Bill Gates in the building of the Microsoft Empire right”

“The number one book recommendation I have is James Dyson has two autobiographies right he just wrote a new another one that was published that's not that's a fact I read that book too it's it's great that's not the book his first autobiography that came out at the time Dyson only had it was still only in the UK”

“um there's a fantastic book called The River of Doubt which is a biography on Teddy Roosevelt but it it focuses on him his life after he lost the last presidential election”

“Estee Lauder wrote one of the best autobiographies that you can ever find a complete obsessive her I'm using her Playbook a lot in the way I'm building Founders and like she's just obsessed over customers did things that did not scale she writes the book she dies the PO the company is still a private family company and now”

“the best one if you only had to read one it's called becoming Steve Jobs the evolution of a reckless upstart to a Visionary leader I think is the turn the title and that's a shorter version”

“because even Yale professors were circulating this uh particularly Ronald Paulson in 1993 he published a book all about Hogarth and he kind of captions this Infamous painting by saying that it is about the Oxfordshire people rioting to preserve the 11 days the government stole from them by changing the calendar”

“You know Ben this reminds me of the Black Monday murders what's the name of the the position within the Inner Circle that is this sacrifice it's like the chair no what what is it the stone chair the stone chair that dude step bladder was on the stone chair he was on the stone chair just I was thinking”

“and uh his Dad gives him this book called The Love Dare and it's a 40-day challenge uh to see if he's man enough to love his wife unconditionally regardless of her response for 40 days”

“the ghetto was basically nothing but ashes and Bones as this quote from the book nakam makes clear the visitors returned stunned intense from the blunt reality but speaking wide-scale Slaughter into gigantic round pits”

“and I'm going to quote again from the book to come when Jews returned in July 1944 to Kiev and hoped to reoccupy their houses they discovered Ukrainian squatters who refused to vacate”

“I have a book coming out yeah called escape from in cell Island which asks the very important question of what if all of the men who felt like they were owed a Woman by the government got tricked into moving to an island where they were stuck”

“He went away and studied He wrote a book you can still get a modern translation of it called real Christianity And the subtitle is the difference between what people think it is and what it really is”