Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2023-W45

“Have you ever read The Giver? I just read it last year. Okay, it's probably the book I've read more than any other book.”

“There is this linguist, John McWhorter, he wrote a book, Words on the Move: Why English Won't and Can't Sit Still, and he talked about the very fact that words just change and dictionaries sort of set in our minds that language is going to be precise forever, and this is just what this word means, or this is how”

“In the first half of the show, Angela says that 19th century psychologist William James wrote something along the lines of, "Happiness is when your expectations meet your reality." She was thinking of a formula for self-esteem that James outlined in his book The Principles of Psychology.”

“Then Mike mentioned the line between loneliness and solitude by novelist and poet Wendell Berry. The line actually came from an article by author and poet Maria Popova, in which she was citing Berry's 1990 collection of essays, "What Are People For."”

“One of the many things I loved about a book that you just wrote, entitled The Worlds I See, is how beautifully you lead the reader through your field's many dead ends and struggles, which is unusual. So often we hear only about the triumphs, the AlphaZeros, the ChatGPTs, not the many, many failures.”

“Yes, um, yeah, when I was doing The Daily Dad, I went to my publisher with it maybe four or five years ago.”

“And then I have on my wall, I have the last page from the typewritten manuscript of Gates of Fire signed by the author. Yeah, I have a bunch of those little totems too, myself.”

“Take, for instance, the opening of "A Farewell to Arms" where he describes the dust on the trees that summer. It resonates throughout the story and comes back at the end; that's a poetic genius that AI simply cannot replicate.”

“Are you at, like, I love this book, I've been raving about it. Um, deliver me from nowhere, about Bruce Springsteen making Nebraska.”

“So yeah, have you read Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff? Yeah.”

“There was a guy named Jim Fixx, who was a big running enthusiast; he was interviewed everywhere and wrote a bestseller, then dropped dead of a heart attack!”

“Editor-in-chief of the Pioneer Works podcast, author of 'How the Universe Got Its Spots,' one of my favorites.”

“Editor-in-chief of the Pioneer Works podcast, author of 'How the Universe Got Its Spots,' one of my favorites. 'Black Hole Survival Guide.'”

“And also one of my favorites, 'Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space.'”

“They died in poverty, penurious, and a book highlighting their care—Dava Sobel focused on this, right? Called 'The Glass Universe'?”

“Actually, I'm reading a book called 'When China Rules the World' written in 2009.”

“In two books—'The Abolition of Man' and 'That Hideous Strength'—he spelled that out and made the point that if that happens, it is not going to liberate human beings; in fact, it's going to abolish them.”

“We've always been skeptical about the idea that random processes can increase information as distinct from variation, so I have huge problems with this, which is why I wrote a book about it recently.”

“Perel takes half a decade to get something in a book, and what have you gotten from me, Jordan? Maybe we could start with that.”

“So this is page 26 for anyone who's listening or watching right now, page 26 of Hidden Potential.”

“As Austin Kleon discusses in another book, 'Steal Like an Artist,' I found that very insightful.”