Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2023-W25

“Okay, maybe if I read this book, I'll be better at not having these ridiculous expectations, but so far it hasn't worked.”

“You're probably familiar with this book, 'The Top Five Regrets of the Dying,' written by a hospice nurse. The number one regret of the dying, she said, is that they say, I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.”

“So Kim Scott, a friend of both of ours, author of 'Radical Candor' and just work, an amazing human being, Kim has this construct that she calls rock stars and superstars, and the basic gist is that early on at Qualtrics or most startups, right, you want people who can scale with the company, who can grow with it, who”

“I don't know; I'm like reading this book on meditation and mindfulness, and I'm like, okay, maybe if I read this book, I'll be better at like not having these ridiculous expectations, but so far it hasn't worked!”

“One thing that is interesting, though, and this is a totally tangential aside, there's this book called u2018Yes Man, I think they later made a movie about it, but this guy Danny Wallace who lived in London, he was getting bored; his life was getting boring, his friends were worried about him.”

“And I did mention, so I dip my toe in this research on gullibility, and there's not a lot on it, but I read this review called 'How Gullible Are We?'”

“If I gave Raymond the best advice, I think it would be go read ‘Influence’ by Bob Cialdini.”

“and apparently in World War II Subs would run silent by going in and out of the Mediterranean without their engines on just using that current oh really yeah so they would uh run style like a glider Run Deep Run silent Run Deep Exactly”

“but uh there was a guy in 1857 uh named Martin Delaney who was a a kind of a jack of all trades he was a doctor and a journalist and an author and abolitionist uh he wrote a book a novel called Blake or the Huts of America uh which was as a lot of these are alternate histories”

“but there was a guy named Edward Johnson who wrote um light ahead for the Negro uh in 1901 and he imagined a black man who uh was transported to a socialist version of the United States in 2006 where things were much much better”

“uh and there's a TV show last year or the year before from her book Kindred”

“Janelle Monae she's the poster child of Afro futurism right now with her concept album dirty computer and a book set in the same world memory librarian”

“All right, here it is: which word appeared in the title of a 2005 book by Stephen Levitt and Stephen Dubner that explored the hidden side of many processes?”

“but this is something that we see There's a great book called The Modern mercenary and there's a phenomenon that they call neo-medievalism because one of the problems during the Middle Ages was that people had an allegiance to their lord their God and their King”

“so Hans Hermann Hapa has written a brilliant book on this called democracy The God That Failed which I would just encourage everybody to check out it's a really good read very brilliant”

“His book new English Kaden was banned by the Puritan government of the area in modern day Massachusetts Quincy Massachusetts because they didn't like his take on Puritan customs and power structures”

“but then also be able to read things like Beyond a pale horse or uh Behold a Pale Horse whatever that work was”

“There's an example uh the absolutely true Diary of a Part-Time Indian written by an author named Sherman alexie”

“and one of the things that comes up pretty often is a very successful racist propaganda like mein comp for the protocols of the Elders of Zion”

“That's why the a simple children's chemistry book called The Golden Book of chemistry experiments was banned in”

“uh Stephen King removed from publication of his own accord uh the rage”

“Speaking of Collector's Editions the books stuff they don't want you to know has been banned”

“and then we can't read things like iRobot”

“and then we can't read things you know like uh the script for Space Odyssey 2001 or 2001 A Space Odyssey”

“but what of quote unquote artificial intelligence Do Androids really Dream of Electric Sheep uh it's a good question”

“well Kristen Rogers who wrote this consulted with Laura spinney who is an author she wrote pale writer the Spanish Flu of 1918 and how it changed the world and there's this quote here that I just wanted to bring up because I think it just speaks to this whole episode”

“And I talked about my first book and about a paragraph maybe two in that first novel and I've had a lot of people reach out and tell me that that paragraph in particular meant so much to them because they hadn't really been able to conceptualize or articulate uh some of how they felt by doing the job downrange”

“and then I pulled some some really late nights uh and pulled a couple all-nighters which are getting harder to do the older I get uh for Savage son a few books back no no problem”

“Have a non-fiction book come coming out on Beirut the 1983 Beirut Barracks bombing there's the pot there's all those things”

“I knew a little bit about it but not nearly as much as I did after I read those that book which led me to two other books and then multiple conversations with Brian Mora about it”

“and so like in San Francisco that's the big criticism that uh there's a guy named Michael schellenberger and he wrote a book called San Francisco describing like what happens when progressives ruin cities”

“and uh I actually listened to this podcast 33 and a third with this guy had on Ricky Rockman and Sebastian Bach and they were talking about the use your Illusion album quite yet”

“and uh I actually listened to this podcast 33 and a third with this guy had on Ricky Rockman and Sebastian Bach and they were talking about the use your Illusion album quite yet”

“So I had a YouTube video taken off my channel yesterday, an interview with Helen Joyce who wrote a book on the trans minor surgery phenomenon.”

“We had a fair number of people around, and this has been written about, and I wrote about it in my book.”

“His books, The 4-Hour Chef, The 4-Hour Body, and The 4-Hour Work Week not only explain his own exploration of how to optimize and prioritize his time and learn particular skills but also teach you those skills as well.”

“I also had developed a friendship with Kelly Starrett, so San Francisco CrossFit, who I have tremendous respect for on multiple levels. His new book, 'Built to Move,' is a great book.”

“That were I to rewrite it today, I would include a section, and there was a bit in Tools of Titans to address that on more extended fasts, let's just call it three to seven day fasts.”

“There is a quote also from a book called 'Don't Shoot the Dog,' which is a terrible title but an excellent book written by Karen Pryor, who was an aquatic mammal trainer.”

“Let's do it together; we'll start with Love Letters.”

“Because I think people look at you, and even when I read your book, I was just thinking, you're working really hard at basketball, you're really working hard at your family, you're working hard at being a dad; I'm like this guy works hard on every area of his life like there's not… so you try to, you're trying to.”