Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W11

“Actually, there's a really interesting author; I've just been reading a book called 'Permission to Feel.' Yes, yes!”

“And there's a psychologist named Stanley Rachman who was a lifelong scholar of fear and courage! And he wrote a book of the same title: 'Fear and Courage.'”

“I mean, and Trump tried to do that; there's a great clip of Trump after he was out of office; he’s being interviewed for his book, and he's talking about meeting Netanyahu and Abbas, the head of the PLO in the West Bank, and he says very candidly, he says, you know, I got a really good feeling about Abbas;”

“If you want a really bizarre experience, check out Tom Woods' new book. It came out a few months ago, and Tom Woods was debunking this in real time with his newsletters starting in March of 2020.”

“But he was a horror and science fiction writer and in '87 published the book 'Communion' which had, if you look up the cover of 'Communion', the illustration that was done by Ted Jacobs along with, you know, Strieber, because he was like this is what I saw, you got to draw this right, that is as stereotypical alien head”

“Then, yeah, he had a book in '94 about 13 different abduction cases called 'Abduction: Human Encounters with Alien.' Uh, parentheses, BTW, I teach at Harvard. Did I mention?”

“UPI picks it up, uh, and then a guy named John G. Fuller made it into a book in 1966 called The Interrupted Journey: Two Lost Hours Aboard a Flying Saucer. Uh, which eventually became a TV movie in 1975 called The UFO Incident, which you can watch on YouTube if you want to see a relatively young and, uh,”

“That's where Brian Merchant's 2016 history of the iPhone, 'The One Device,' comes in. Um, yeah, and it's a really interesting book, a really good book.”

“By that point, I had read 'Infinite Loop,' which was the first truly critical examination of Jobs.”

“Kaczynski's brother David later stated that Ellul's book, The Technological Society, became Ted's bible.”

“Oh, it's sort of one of my not-even-marginally scientific books that I cranked out; it's called 'A Primate's Memoir.' Basically, just stories of the 30 odd years hanging out with baboons in various places in East Africa.”

“One of his more notable books is entitled "Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World," which has had a tremendous positive influence on my work life and indeed my life in general.”

“Cal also has a new book out now which I'm currently reading entitled "Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment without Burnout."”