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“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…”
“one of my favorite books of all time called The Hidden Europe, where he goes through every Eastern European country, but what he's so adept at doing is he he went through not every Eastern European co…”
“I had read the little schemer and I had read the uh structure interpretation of computer programs the that was called the sick P yeah the the MIT scheme book”
“I had read the little schemer and I had read the uh structure interpretation of computer programs the that was called the sick P yeah the the MIT scheme book”
“This is why I talk about the checklist manifesto all the time.”
“So the policy of blocking monopoly via company acquisition, which you know seems like common sense, also means that you're blocking innovation entirely because they're going to find a way around it an…”
“I was reading a new biography of you which I should disclose was written by Sebastian Malibby the husband of our editor-in-chief”
“Read this if you’re ready to stop adapting to the future… and start shaping it.”
“I didn't know you said that to them. Oh gosh, >> that was that story was printed in a book. That book, The Launchpad.”
“I can't recommend it enough. Here here, dear video viewers, this is again The Infinity Machine. Um, even if you think there is no more thing no more content you can consume about AI, um, I highly reco…”
“I was actually just finished a book last night... It's called The School of Night by Carl of Nosgard. He's one of my favorite writers.”
“My library donation project for the LFS found homes for twenty sets of books, so I ordered another batch: https://www.lfs.org/PrometheusAwardsCollection.shtml”
“famously wrote about himself over the course of six volumes, an autobiography called My Struggle. Um which I read actually when I was um like breastfeeding honestly the first time with my son.”
“i mean i wrote a book about this called hate inc”
“to celebrate the launch of their new book um the book is called the immersive me metaverse playbook for Business Leaders a guide to strategic decision making and implementation in the metaverse for im…”
“Arena you have another book coming out spartial Computing and Aid driven business with Kathy sorry special Computing Revolution with Kathy hacker”
“I just published a book this this past week called Startup Ecosystems. >> I just ordered mine.”
“What I'm really trying to take a look at is everyone, if you're familiar with Brad Feld's Startup Communities from about 15 years ago, e easily the the the definitive or or the first book that that re…”
“In your latest book, Super Agers, you write that we're at a unique moment in medicine where we've seen a quote historic convergence of breakthroughs end quote, particularly around anti-aging science.”
“He is the author of several influential books, including the obesity code, the diabetes code, and his latest book, The Hunger Code.”
“He is the author of several influential books, including the obesity code, the diabetes code, and his latest book, The Hunger Code.”
“He is the author of several influential books, including the obesity code, the diabetes code, and his latest book, The Hunger Code.”
“In this episode, we discuss his new book, Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think.”
“I shared, you know, I'm not an expert in this area, but I shared it with my good friend Paul Codlage, who's an eminent scholar on on on uh on ancient Athens, and he's, you know, he was blown away by t…”
“I shared, you know, I'm not an expert in this area, but I shared it with my good friend Paul Codlage, who's an eminent scholar on on on uh on ancient Athens, and he's, you know, he was blown away by t…”
“Marshall Rosenberg's nonviolent communication. He has a book and a framework.”
“The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leaders”
“I love Designing Your Life by Bill Brunett.”
“The Selfish Gene is like one of my favorite books.”
“road less traveled I've read more than once”
“I just reread um I'm blanking on the name. Um the Underground Railroad. I just reread that amazing book. Um >> Oh, yeah. Coulson. >> Yes. Uh I just reread it.”
“I love um uh North Woods uh which I love that. I love that author. Um he's amazing. Um I just love it. It's such a beautiful book about time and I love time tra it's a little bit of it's just wonderfu…”
“I wanted to, you know, point out this book or highlight this book, this wonderful book that you have, these strange new minds, how AI learned to talk and what it means.”
“Moonshot thinking is designed to reverse that pattern. I literally wrote the book on this. My book on moonshot thinking called Think Like a Rocket Scientist became a number one bestseller.”
“Um, what have I done over the last week? So, what I'm working on right now is I've been doing a lot of reading about, you know, I've been reading Vibe Coding by Jean Kim and Steve and reading a bunch …”
“there's an outof print book called the uh the UFOs and USOs of a Santa Catalina channel and it's all about how people have seen these things that have gone into and out of the ocean in extremely simil…”
“Or when you want a break from all the serious news you could pre-order my book Hot Type the Magnificent Machine that uh gave birth to mass media and drove Mark Twain mad coming out from Bloomsberry th…”
“Or you can still buy the Goodutenberg parenthesis and paperback.”
“Um, we're talking to Sebastian Malib and we are talking about this book, The Infinity Machine, Deus Hassabis and The Deep Mind, The Quest for Super Intelligence.”
“I will just make another recommendation for Stephen Key. So Steven Keyi has a book called The One Simple Idea, which is about licensing and creating inventions.”
“So he reads and reads and reads and you know by the time he's in his sort of mid- teens late teens he's reading something like Gert Lehach >> um which is a book about you know which has inspired a lot…”
“That excerpt is from the end of the book that I'm going to talk about today, which is The Infinity Machine, Demisabus, Deep Mind, and the Quest for Super Intelligence, and it is written by Sebastian M…”
“The book is called Gold, Echer, and Bach. And then the way the book is described in this book, it says it was a fire hose of a book that inspired a remarkable number of future AI scientists.”
“At the same time, Demis was inhaling science fiction. He was reading Isaac Azimoff's Foundation series and Ian Banks culture series.”
“a book that's really meant a lot to me as I've emerged myself into counter UAS is the origins of victory and the fact that we need to embrace technological advancements and disruption and be okay disr…”
“One is a Theory of Fun by Raf Coer. Rafe Coer. Raf. R A P H. ref. It'll outline all these fundamentals. It is the first game design book I ever read. It is the one I go back to and refer to the most o…”
“there's a great book we can we'll put put in the notes called thinking big where it goes actually the creation of the city of Los Angeles”
“one of the one of the books that influenced me the most was a book called The Goal. Uh it's written by an MIT professor named Ellie Gorat and a lot of people read it in in college or business school. …”
“And I was also very helpful as moral support to >> me. >> So are you in the fog on the book itself or in a general Tim wandering in the fog time? So I am I would say in the inverse of where I've found…”
“This is why also in the great nerve which is a book written by Kevin Tracy. It's a great book. There's an extended chapter about Wimhof.”
“So the power broker by Robert Carrow won the Pulitzer Prize in 1975. It's a biography of Robert Moses who basically shaped modern New York. And this book is considered the quintessential book to read …”
“AJ Jacobs would be a great example for people who don't know. The year of living biblically I think is an amazing amazing book.”
“Part two is we are going to study Snider's Beats and we're going to study the save the cat of it all. >> Those two books are so good”
“I think this was Jodie. >> This was shout out Jod therapist. >> Jody Jod puts me on all the great books. I was coming to her talking about just various problems I was facing and and she told me of thi…”
“Radical Cander by Kim Scott and The Six Thinking Hats by Edward Dabono. Do either of these ring a bell? >> Yeah, of course. >> Okay. All right. Got it. So, >> my boy Edward with his hats. >> Yeah, the…”
“I learned from a book called The Great CEO Within.”
“If I had to just pull a rabbit out of a hat right now to pick a few, I'd be like read non-violent communication.”
“So, one is going to be The Effective Executive from Peter Ducker. Classic, old, short, incredible bang for the buck.”
“There's a book back there called Of Wolves and Men by Barry Lopez who won I believe it was the Booker or Pulitzer Prize for another of his books called Arctic Dreams. Of Wolves and Men is one of the b…”
“There's a book back there called Of Wolves and Men by Barry Lopez who won I believe it was the Booker or Pulitzer Prize for another of his books called Arctic Dreams.”
“Travels with Charlie by John Steinbeck. I mentioned it earlier, is hilarious. Also an incredibly accurate and enjoyable warts and all ride through the US, right? What a quirky weird ass country.”
“If you haven't read I'll simplify the title here. Alice in Wonderland. You should go read Alice in Wonderland. Read the whole thing just quotes from it.”
“the 8020 principle, Richard Kosh. That just never gets old.”
“And there's another book of his up there called Living the 8020 Principle. It might be living the 8020 way.”
“the other depending on the scope current scope and scale of the company and then the ambitions especially if it's venture-backed is to read a book called the high growth handbook by Allad Gil E L A D …”
“Everybody should read Aussy Mandas.”
“That's why I want to introduce you to this free ebook made by Google's principal analytics lead and data scientist where she wrote down all the secret tips and methodologies that she used to learn cod…”
“I may have talked about on social media before, but this is my favorite biography of the last year or so. Uh Who Knew? and he talks about his personal life um his marriage to Diane van von uh Fenberg.…”
“I want to highly recommend the book "Multiflow Computer" by Elizabeth Fisher.”
“In his 1999 semi-autobiography "Chaotic Thoughts From The Old Millennium", Sim writes about a time when Singapore's rule of law was not yet so strong.”
“Mark Hyink's excellent 2024 book focus details an extremely tense interaction with the TSMC R&D SVP who is now at Intel by the way.”
“There was a book I read called Reinventing Organizations. Yeah. By a guy named Lulu. Have you seen it, Brian? Yeah. I don't think I read it, but I remember hearing about it. Yeah. And it and it talks …”
“I mean, I think you've read this great book, A Brief History of Intelligence, right? I think this is a really good book. Lots of AI researchers think this is a really good book it seems.”
“I wanted the updated, you know, what's changed since he wrote The Hard Thing About Hard Things back in the day.”
“And then we had just written a book called Inbound Marketing. And two of your marketers had the book.”
“uh which is why I call the book what you do is who you are”
“I wrote a book about this. It's called Get Married.”
“Had like watched some YouTube videos, got like JavaScript for dummies like from a garage sale at some point. And so you know was doing that uh and then watching those movies kind of made it like real …”
“The mom test is essentially like uh if you ask your mom like hey would you buy this thing? Of course, she's going to say yes. So, you have to ask questions around it to see like whether she would actu…”
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“I started the book The Illegals and hearing, you know, Olga speak about how these people don't have any, you know, care for anybody or anything. They will do whatever it takes.”
“Now, listen, while I was gone um I read uh a book called Opus about Opus Dei, which I I strongly recommend.”
“I have two books, $100 million offers, $1 million leads. People say they made them money. There's a lot of five star reviews on them. Fantastic. And I made video versions of these books that you can g…”
“I have two books, $100 million offers, $1 million leads. People say they made them money. There's a lot of five star reviews on them. Fantastic. And I made video versions of these books that you can g…”
“For my book launch, for $100 million leads, we got 30,000 affiliates who promoted the actual book launch.”
“I have two books. I fire my CPA. I have taxfree millionaire. I've made all these courses.”
“I have two books. I fire my CPA. I have taxfree millionaire. I've made all these courses.”
“And so 3.6 million copies were donated by other entrepreneurs in my book launch. And I'm donating these books as well. And so if you're starting in business and you would like the ultimate business ba…”
“I actually wrote about this in in the book I I recently published where, you know, it it became clear to me that um you know, Joe Biden seeking another term was probably not in the best interest of th…”
“I get I just wrote a book called Notes on Being a Man. I get attacked by all these therapists.”
“I struggle with depression and anger. So I decided I'm going to write a book on happiness. I wrote a book called The Algebra of Happiness.”
“Been reading the great taking and hijacking Bitcoin. Scary stuff.”
“Been reading the great taking and hijacking Bitcoin. Scary stuff.”
“the great irony of Bassam Ysef uh who wrote a book called uh Revolution for Dummies.”
“But what I've what I've what's important to note about this is that this is also true with the 4-hour body and like why that worked for so many people when other books kind of diet exercise books had …”
“All right. So the apocryphal story that I was hinting at um is the story of the professor who comes in and this I I want to say this was from originally Steven Cvy or maybe Steven Cvy adapted it. >> T…”
“Michael Wolf, who of course take this with a grain of salt, said that this is all about um, uh, this book that just got published by Harper Collins.”
“I got Moonchild and I read through it and I was like, "Yeah, this is this is definitely badass." Awesome. Thank you. Yeah, I'm glad you enjoyed the read, man. It's a it's a it's a short read, you know…”
“there was a a book I read in the firehouse too. It's called chosen soldier by Dick Couch”