Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2025-W11

“you can read the Memoirs of Don rean”

“That's where the title comes from”

“your books have been extremely well received both liked by readers and by book critics and you've got a new book called the age of diagnosis which I think people will like as well but I think your book is also going to make a lot of people angry”

“You could read blood in the water uh Joan melon's Incredible Book”

“um so the first one I'd recommend is Albert hershman's National Power and the structure of foreign trade um from 1945 which is something that's gone completely out of fashion in recent years but shed a lot of light on where we are today”

“um so the first one I'd recommend is Albert hershman's National Power and the structure of foreign trade um from 1945 which is something that's gone completely out of fashion in recent years but shed a lot of light on where we are today”

“I would recommend John Min Kan The Economic Consequences of the piece um which just read the first third the last two thirds not worth reading”

“and I'd recommend another book which is David graber's debt the first 5,000 years which looks at what you do with debt system systems from a very long-term perspective and makes a point about the fact that debt is always about power”

“if you want to get a very quick take on what anthropology is there's a book by Matthew Angel called think like an anthropologist that summarizes some of the key ideas in anthropology”

“um um the game by Neil Strauss no uh no no no no no uh Huckleberry fin really yeah I read Huckleberry fin like three different times and uh it just is a it's just the most beautiful book about like The Human Condition and how important we are to one another and uh how like Outsiders often connect and”

“the book is called careless people a cautionary tale of power greed and lost idealism”

“I think the other book that typified this era at Facebook wasn't actually a Facebook book but was leanin written by Cheryl Sandberg”