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“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…”
“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.”
“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.”
“György Buzsáki is a neuroscientist who has a book called The Brain from the Inside Out where he basically says all our psychology concepts, AI concepts, all this stuff is just made-up stuff.”
“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…”