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“I'm reading the book now called Deep work by Cal my gosh what's his last name and I'm like I don't know only like a few chapters in but it talks about doing the Deep work”
“Another book that I love growing up that would be really fun into a movie and I don't know if it has been. Artemis Fowl.”
“my mind immediately went to if I was kind of let go of the podcast and I had a lot of free time on my hands. What fantasy book series would I want to adapt? What fantasy series would I want to bring t…”
“Red Rising, which is a little bit more of a modern series that has kind of been adopted by every reading on Instagram at this point, but those two would definitely slap. Aragon has been adapted, but s…”
“I think if I'd recommend people read uh in Banks the banks culture books are probably the best envisioning if fact not probably they're definitely by far the best envisioning of an AI future um there'…”
“I have thoughts on it because I'm taking from books that you've recommended in your actual writing. You've published and illustrated that there are a bunch of interesting books that cover the 1980s de…”
“The abundance story I would tell at the beginning would be near the Hill Country in Texas. And there's this huge section of The Path to Power, the first Robert Caro's four going on, hopefully five-vol…”
“Have you read H.W. Brands' Strange Death of American Liberalism? I haven't actually. No, I'm familiar with H.W. Brands, some of his other work, but I haven't read that. So it's not to besmirch a fello…”
“oh I've just finished reading this this book I thought you might want it to read on your way home and it was called the Friday night in a teen club it was like this Chiclets book and it just it was re…”
“He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Bloodlands, Black Earth, On Tyranny, and most recently, On Freedom.”
“He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Bloodlands, Black Earth, On Tyranny, and most recently, On Freedom.”
“He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Bloodlands, Black Earth, On Tyranny, and most recently, On Freedom.”
“He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Bloodlands, Black Earth, On Tyranny, and most recently, On Freedom.”
“And I read A Wrinkle in Time. Why that particular book? Okay, I'm realizing now that I gave a lot of myself away.”
“It turns out that in 2016, and this was part of my book, Road to Unfreedom, there was an extremely systematic attempt to find out what was to support Trump's candidacy, mostly on social media.”
“I would recommend for anyone who hasn't the reading the Walter Isacson biography of Musk where he talks about uh just looking at building a rocket and then throwing all of these NASA manuals out the w…”
“His book, which I would highly recommend you guys to check out, is Build Real Estate Wealth. It's also a hard money lender to other investors. And there's nothing better.”
“The name of my book is Build Real Estate Wealth. Enjoy the Journey of Rental Property Investment. It's about rentals. But I will say that I put a chapter in there about house flipping.”
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“Deborah Ferroni. She's a founder of Ferroni Advisors and a longtime leader in legal business development and marketing. She previously held senior business development roles at major law firms and her…”
“actually the The Thinker who I think had the best foresight about how the AI Revolution was going to play out is actually Ray Kurzweil you know he I agree yeah and his book Singularity is near gets li…”
“Bridgewwater's growth led Dalio to write the principles in 2017.”
“She's co-author of the HPR article, How to Disagree, and has a new book out called How to Disagree Better.”
“He's the author of many books, Profit First, Clockwork, Fix This Next, Allin. But today, we're going to talk about his latest, The Money Habit, The Worry-Free Way to Financial Independence.”
“He's the author of many books, Profit First, Clockwork, Fix This Next, Allin. But today, we're going to talk about his latest, The Money Habit, The Worry-Free Way to Financial Independence.”
“But today, we're going to talk about his latest, The Money Habit, The Worry-Free Way to Financial Independence.”
“This episode is another one in the All in this together series celebrating the release of Jack's new book of stories and teachings on caring for each other and the world. It is truly one of my favorit…”
“my in my new book the the win-win-wealth strategy i i look at real estate specifically and say what does what does it an investor get what's their share of the deal because the government gets a share…”
“And I hope you all enjoy Mobilize and this conversation with Madeline.”
“if you want to learn more about him, you should definitely read John Boyd, the fighter pilot who changed the art of war by a quorum.”
“My true favorite having read, you know, I got to read a lot of great books for this, but there are frankly a lot of books that are not so good I had to read. But ultimately, like, you know, I may have…”
“So his first book was the dollar crisis.”
“His other book was the corruption of capitalism. It's because how we mess with the economy via the money we work for.”
“He's the author of many books, Profit First, Clockwork, Fix This Next, Allin. But today, we're going to talk about his latest, The Money Habit, The Worry-Free Way to Financial Independence.”
“I mean, that's such a so striking, isn't it? Because Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell's novel, Yeah. plays a similar role. It's a novel that then inspires a film. And this is the same story kind …”
“So I wrote this book called Everywhere about Calder and my journey through all this, because I'm a big fan of Calder.”
“I heard him talking on the radio about what is it rogerians so it's basically people that got started or got restarted or pivoted in their life when they were older older in his mind was like 50s 60s …”
“Back in the beginning of my grief, a friend of mine, my sister had died and she got a manuscript of Laura's The Light Between Us and she gave it to me and she said, don't tell anyone this is, you know…”
“Have you ever read the book The Devil's Teeth? No. It's by Susan Casey. I highly recommend you read this book. It is a book about the great white sharks off the Fairine Islands”
“The book that I recommend to everyone these days are two books. One is The Empire of AI. And the other is Power and Progress.”
“The book that I recommend to everyone these days are two books. One is The Empire of AI. And the other is Power and Progress.”
“Judd Kessler, a Wharton professor, author of Lucky by Design, tells us about market design, how we allocate scarce resources, and how we can use it to make a difference in our lives.”
“It's in the spirit of another pop econ book about market design, which Al wrote, which is called Who Gets What and Why.”
“My colleague, whose office is next to mine, had a book that came out a few weeks before mine. It's called Having It All. So my colleague is Corinne Lowe, and I'm really enjoying that book.”
“There's a whole book about the Indiana Klan by Leonard Moore called, Citizen Klansmen.”
“there's a comic book, I don't think you are a massive fan of comic books, by Alan Moore called Watchmen in the 1980s.”
“We talked about how the Klan was reborn thanks to Thomas Dixon's book and play, The Klansman, the film, The Birth of a Nation, and the vision of a man called William J. Simmons”
“is it right that you got into this reading a book about the origins of language was that how it started”
“She just wrote the book, Living Well with Social Anxiety, and I loved our conversation.”
“Our special guest today is Eric Jorgensen. He's written a new book. The book of Elon. Fantastic cover. Elon Musk in his own words. Following on from his excellent almanac of Naval Ravagan. How are you…”
“Our special guest today is Eric Jorgensen. He's written a new book. The book of Elon. Fantastic cover. Elon Musk in his own words. Following on from his excellent almanac of Naval Ravagan. How are you…”
“I did but also i i uh feel like i need to add a coda to that rant that ended on such a terrifying uh note bring us back to the positive eric i mean the the observation that the metabolism of change is…”
“In 2023, he published a book along with his co-author Christopher Worsham called Random Acts of Medicine.”
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“I started to read non-fiction this year because I had to learn a few things right now I've been reading U the book of cleric Johnson called scaling people because we are scaling people and so we have …”
“And in this book, he says that the mind is a hierarchy of pattern recognizers. Where a pattern recognizer takes an input and produces an output. And if you can stitch a bunch together, you can recreat…”
“And I had built a bot of Tony Fidel because we were reading Build in our book club.”
“And I'll share three essential strategies I learned from the book Slow Productivity by Cal Newport.”
“So when I interviewed Steve for the Geekway, and I was incredibly eager to interview him because about 10 years ago, I met him in Silicon Valley at a conference.”
“On today's show, we're here with Dr. Colin Fisher, professor, jazz trumpet player, and author of The Collective Edge, talking about the real science of group dynamics, creativity, and leadership.”
“These stories, by the way, that he relates uh are mainly from the book that he put together Miracle of Love in the mid-late 70s.”
“In her book, Burnout, Emily Nagoski said, we need 42% of our day to be in rest and recovery mode.”
“Today on the show, you heard Gretchen Bakke, author of The Grid, The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy.”
“in deep medicine book that the gift of time all these things that we've been talking about like the front door that could be used by the the the model the coming up with the diagnosis”
“I read this book. I went to military school in New York and um we were required to read the communist manifesto and I asked my economics teachers why you reading a communist manifesto and as military …”
“And he's the author of this book here, Kill to Order. And it's a very important book for those you want to know your enemy.”
“I wrote a book called the capitalist manifesto, and it's about how Matt Stalin and those guys says the way to take over America is through the school system.”
“Donald Trump and I have written two books together is one of our books. Why I want you to be rich. Let's fight back.”
“anthony demelo he's fantastic actually i'm gonna start with one book start with anthony demelo's way to love”
“or his book awareness they're both really good”
“The crazy roommate analogy which i originally picked up from michael singer by the way he has a good book called the untethered soul”
“if you're going to start somewhere i started with this book called think on these things”
“there's also the book of life”
“osho's book the great challenge”
“read counsels and maxims”
“kappa gupta is an account in twitter he has a couple of great books direct truth is a fantastic book”
“I recommend ascent of money as a great book on this history both the book and audiobook are great debits and credits on ledgers started around 30 000 years ago”
“the town of seneca the the moral letters to lucilius if people want to look on public domain from on public domain sources you can find these letters the moral letters to leukillus also spelled as you…”
“eric jorgensen recently put out a book which had a bunch of my sayings called the almanac of naval ravicon”
“so prefer historical ones and there's like nathaniel poppers digital gold which is just about the history of bitcoin”
“for technical ones and there's andreas antonopoulos as mastering ethereum great”
“There's a great book actually I was looking for it so I could show everybody yeah a very old book by a guy named Al Reese called the 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing and you know once in a while I'll ju…”
“So you've written the book, Recession, the real reasons economies shrink and what to do about it.”
“get a copy of my latest book meaningful measurement of the customer experience now available on Amazon and other retailers”
“other people know me for the food books. I'm the worst dilemma in defense of food.”
“other people know me for the food books. I'm the worst dilemma in defense of food.”
“Okay. So, your new book, A World Appears, a journey into consciousness.”
“I'll just say the book that best explains this is Ed Yang's book about an immense world.”
“I read this book I don't know if you know it I read this book to my son and it's so beautiful and the places you might go there I start to be convinced that using these two things as starting points w…”
“She's written a book on supervised learning with quantum computers.”
“one place i actually take inspiration from is uh uh there's this book called uh what technology wants uh that talks about sort of you know development of new technologies”
“There's one by Williams called "Lessons in Clarity and Grace". That one, when I started working through that one, it was just like everything made sense.”
“Have you ever read chaos by Tom O'Neill I have red cast it is yeah so that you know here's a fun thing so you know if you draw a map of San Francisco at the time that he describes the book chaos this …”
“uh there's the other book about Laurel cannon that's even crazier than chaos it's the book called weird scenes in the canyon oh okay you would love this one”
“There are very few celebrity memoirs I've been more eager to read than Lena Dunham's Fame Sick... Her memoir, Fame Sick, is available April 14th.”
“His book reinforcement learning and introduction has both educated and inspired scores of graduate students and Beyond and is one of the most approachable people in the field always having time for re…”
“Sorry, this is now gonna become an infomercial, but there's a book Stripe Press published called "The Big Score", about the semiconductor industry, primarily in Silicon Valley, in the seventies and th…”
“there's a book about eds about ehler danlow syndrome... called um the body is a doorway by sophie strand and she said this thing where which i i couldn't believe someone else was saying”
“When you, for example, go to an LLM and you ask it about some book and what happened in it, like Nick Lane's book or something like that, the LLM will often give you some stuff which is roughly correc…”
“I would read these books in their Library like in the Plex and how Google works”