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“his book, Destined for War, remains the definitive framework for understanding the USChina relationship.”
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“Mark repertoire he's um he wrote this book called Starting Strength and it became like the the main way most most guys at least my age like getting into uh powerlifting.”
“when Secretary Hicks talks about this kind of thing and what was happening with him when he was in Afghanistan, if you ever read his book in Iraq, he's like the rules of engagement were so punishing”
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“part of my doing the reading and the research phase...was reading his textbook you know twice and going through that”
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“It was probably the influence of Asimov, the 'Robot' book series. That's probably at least part of where this came from.”
“There's a great book by Nick Lane, one of the top experts in this area called 'The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution.' I think it's fantastic.”
“You mentioned to me the book 'The Maniac' by Benjamin Labatut, a book on...about you...the central figure that is John von Neumann. I would say it's a haunting and beautiful exploration of madness and…”
“We had Jonathan Haidt... He had a very important point which is to try and keep kids off cell phones and social media until they're 16.”
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“And on the top 10 list of kids' books banned last year as I am Billie Jean King.”
“You know, the best imagining of this future that I've read is from Iain Banks, the Culture books. So I recommend people read the Culture books.”
“There's the books, The Story of Civilization by Durant, which is a long series of books, very, very deep. Those books take a long time to get through.”
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“I have a book coming out in September called Our own Worst Enemies.”
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“I did write a blurb for uh for Nate and Eleazar's book and you know I I I I I would like people to to read the book to you know uh uh uh reflect on it uh to to argue about it.”
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“Every book I've written to this point, I kept proof front and center. To do that, I make sure each of my books walks their talk.”
“I applied only the principles and tactics and $100 million leads to grow my audience from just a handful of customers and friends to over 5 million plus people.”
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“Probably the Iain Banks Culture books are the closest thing to what the future will be like in a non-dystopian outcome.”
“The first two-thirds of Stranger in a Strange Land are good, and then it gets very weird in the third portion.”
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“in preparation I just read your excellent book compendium of screenshot essays over the past few years it's must read”
“I still give the book Understanding Deep Learning by Simon J.D. Prince a good recommendation, but chapter 21: Deep learning and Ethics was sloppy.”
“my Bible when I was uh uh starting graduate studies was um you know the duda and heart um book”
“around that time, I guess the PDP book, the parallel data processing book, which was a compendium of neural network papers that appeared around 1986 if I recall right.”
“Um, Dale Carnegie, how to make friends and influence.”
“A guy Kawasaki wrote a great book on how to write a slide deck for a startup.”
“I'm a greeter. Uh I would start with the technical book one is it it is functional programming in Scola. This is the single best technical book I've ever read.”
“Uh the wandering earth uh wandering earth by uh sishlu. So he's the guy that did uh three body problem. I think a lot of people know him for that. I actually I think your body problem was awesome, but…”
“Agree with Kevin's core point about getting the best and latest guidebooks.”
“Just discovered Ruskin's The Nature of Gothic. Remarkable essay: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30755/30755-h/30755-h.htm#page151”
“Yeah. And I think in Quad one, you talked about Great Gatsby. Yeah. The whole novel in the context, which is pretty amusing.”
“instructor of the other TensorFlow specializations and al also author of the wonderful book AI and ML book for coders.”
“there's a good book that maybe is inspiring called demon you potentially read it in Damon the intelligence um ends up like puppeteering almost a little bit like humanity in a certain sense you know an…”
“More people should read the first part of The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine.”
“there's this wonderful book um Mr China about a private Equity guy who was investing in China in the 90s and sometimes the plot lines are literally the CEO ran off to a different country he took the c…”
“Tyler Cowan in his book stubborn attachments outlines his moral philosophy and I I think he calls it common sense utilitarianism”
“I couldn't resist I posted a link to it another book on this topic with that has a great title called Kill all normies”
“Alex Epstein wrote an excellent book fossil future in which he makes the case for fossil fuels”
“It was um kind of a 101 on you know Grossman's book you know on killing and you know talking about the udaloop and emotional regulation. And so we really got into the science, not just the, you know, …”
“Also, Put Your Legs On by Rob Jones.”
“Need to lead by Dave Burke.”
“I've written a bunch of books about leadership. I've written a bunch of kids books. Check those out.”
“His first book, Quantum Computing Since Democratus, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2013.”
“Lessons from History is like one of my favorite books ever. Um I would really really really recommend it. It's a short read. Um but I would Lessons from History by Alan Durant is like probably the mos…”
“You know what's great? Area 51, an uncensored history of the top secret military base. Not very ariodite. Great book.”
“the banana king have you heard this one have you seen this one oh my god this is so good what's it called this the fish that ate the whale incredible book”
“You have this first book here called am I overthinking this which a lot of people identify with has sold many copies.”
“for for uh for writing on writing well by William Zinder?”
“The book is called Hidden Multipliers, and you can pre-order it at hidden multipliers.com, or I guess if this is out long enough, I'll order it, I guess, depending on when you're listening to this.”
“And she and her partner do Dr. Katya Walsh just recently published a new book called Winning with AI: The 90-Day Blueprint for Success. So, I'm super excited to learn about the backstory behind this b…”
“The book trust agents came from a conversation I was at South by Southwest. It was 2008 and I was sitting next to a very wonderful woman, Ellen. And um she asked me, she goes, "Do you read?" I said, "…”
“In defence of the rich — and other new economic books https://www.ft.com/content/a4acff6c-2f3c-4b23-83a0-ac0688112306”
“So if you end up hearing this again, please don't hold it against me. There was this incredible experiment at Stanford and they take a big kind of tub and they fill it with water and they drop a mouse…”
“Rob Henderson's book troubled is a really important one because it talks exactly about why that happens and how that happens how do people acquire luxury beliefs”
“the elegant universe had a big impact on me when it came out when uh all uh and it's an honor to to do this podcast with you”
“Let's see I just I just read chip Wars um I skim through a lot of AI papers I don't understand all of them but I try to understand all of them”
“if you go back and you read his letters basically Bezos has a very smart principle which is he thinks in bets”
“How many of you guys have read uh Howard Marx's memos the good degree memos unbelievable that's Heat”
“How many of you guys have read Warren Buffett's letters yeah you know there's only one thing I keep in my desk which is a printed binder two binder of all of his letters um unbelievable heat”
“The first was the 4-hour chef, which was basically just a suicide mission of a deadline.”
“so of course you know as a student I read the fineman lectures on physics and and you know learn learn physics that way and I've seen him speak a few times”
“and the last one we wrote together is a singularity paradox bridging the gap between humanity and AI”
“I called it an innovation stack and it's it's the mess that you have to create when you're doing something new and that was sort of the big insight of the book which is that square because we were try…”
“I'm the author of the book the music business for music creators.”
“okay in Stephen King pet cemetery there's this very haunting phrase that is sometimes dead is better sometimes getting sued is better like getting sued is not the worst thing that could happen to you …”
“I was actually just reading uh the the galley for poor Charlie's Almanac you probably stri presses uh it comes out in um uh November we are uh publishing the new the coolest books I website I've ever …”
“Martin Seligman has a great book authentic happiness he's the head of the American Psychological Association and he has actually a really good um exercise take somebody who's been pivotal in your life…”
“I call this new role the AI Scout taking inspiration in part from Julia galiff author of the Scout mindset who emphasizes the value of working toward accurate beliefs even when they may lead to uncomf…”
“So if anyone has read Peter Thiel's book, Zero to One, Describing Startups, that's a really good book that-- at one point in a later chapter.”
“we read everything from like game of thrones to orson scott card you name it”
“or more recently books like Super Intelligence where which imagine scenarios where an embodied AI could convert every atom of the universe into paper clips based on a misunderstanding.”
“I'm I'm an entrepreneur at heart it's in my DNA just like gri talks about in his book and I've been suppressing it for several years through college and early professional life and at this point I wan…”
“and this is the pro I'm reading uh or I'm listening on Audible to nurture Shock by po Bronson and he goes into detail about studies of people who have been praised their whole life and what a disservi…”
“NutureShock by po Bronson and he goes into detail about studies of people who have been praised their whole life and what a disservice pra does to people because then you think you're actually smart a…”
“There's a great book called "Soul of a New Machine," which is one of the great all-time startup books, which is about a supercomputer company in Boston in the late 80s. It was just extremely excellent…”
“And, by the way, I thought the Walter Isaacson book, it got a mixed reception, but I thought if you want to study the Elon method a bit, it was actually pretty useful for that, the recent biography.”
“I think Martin Gurri, the guy who has published this book. I think he really nailed it, and I think his thesis and his book came out in 2015, and I think a lot of people said either, "Wow, he predicte…”
“I'm reminded of a quote from Google's site reliability engineering handbook which is that hope is not a strategy we can't just hope that this will work we really have to predict that it should work be…”