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“The Beginning of Infinity. Super cliche, but hard to be more optimistic, for me, than that book.”
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“The Information's editor-in-chief Jessica Lessin had with Sebastian Mallaby, author of the new book The Infinity Machine, which digs into one of the most visionary AI minds, Demis Hassabis, CEO of Dee…”
“Aaron actually wrote a book called The Sovereign child he's been espousing a theory around taking children seriously which is an older philosophy but he's I would say the best Expositor of that philos…”
“Ethan's most recent book and the topic of our conversation today is co-intelligence living and working with AI. It's one of today's most popular among the sea of books on AI.”
“Peter tial in his book 0 to1 said that autistic Founders do better because they you know they're more contrarian and they don't pay as much attention to what other people think”
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“I'm a fan of the book Atomic Habits.”
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“Everybody Has Something to Hide explains how to use Signal to protect yourself and those you care about.”
“Paul Graham had to start building heat for himself at Y combinator How did he do it with his essays His essays were so incredible and if you read those early y combinator essays they're gold”
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“my dad's uh book he wrote was called showing up for life where he always wanted to be part of the community and helping out”
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“He's got a new book out called The Algorithm, and it's all about the lessons he learned from working closely with Elon Musk. That's next.”
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“So, there's this great book uh I'll recommend uh read off the bat called Rise of the Machines by Thomas Red.”
“some of the first set of books that I picked up are Ender Game you know the whole Saga by Ori Scott Card”
“And it started in 1989 with this seminal book from Roger Penrose the emperor's new mind and Roger there suggested an intriguing idea namely that uses slightly different words but paraphrasing it a con…”
“This is sort of the big breakthrough that Clay Christensen had in 'The Innovator's Dilemma,' which is sometimes when big companies don't do things, it's because they're screwing up.”
“I also read his deep learning with python book which was inspiring and I discovered his racy twitter feed when I worked for Microsoft I used to run machine learning seminars and workshops and hackatho…”
“I mean obviously the buzz word in Silicon Valley is network effects. Everyone wants to build network effects. it it's actually quite hard to find a way to build network effects but I think over time a…”
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“you are one of the first people to write um a review, a testimonial for my book when it came out 10 years ago, 2020 Mindsight, and I always always appreciate you for that so much. Um, and continuing t…”
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“the one I've always liked most is actually the culture series by Ian Banks um I started reading that back in the '90s and and I think that is a picture it's it's like a thousand years into the future …”
“Thiago Forte is the best-selling author of building a second brain, which teaches how to capture the important information in your life so you can use it later when you need it most.”
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“I recently read meditations again uh a couple of months ago well I listened to it in the sauna but it's it's brilliant and it's it's amazing”
“I was in the process of doing the final editing for the revised edition of the of the 4-hour workweek and I had been pulling my readers through social media and the blog and so on which had at that ti…”
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“She's an entrepreneur, speaker, and co-founder of Refinery 29, whose new book, The Playful Way, argues that play is not a distraction from meaningful work and life, but a practical mindset that can he…”
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“you read 1984 I'm sure and most of your audience did I was very heartened during the beginning of co that 1984 became the 17th bestselling book in the world in the English language telling me ah peopl…”
“actually a new book out I've been giving all my friends called when reason goes on holiday”
“The next one is Jeffrey West's, in his book, Scale.”
“if you want to understand the future of any technology just read science fiction they're actually the roadmap writers and it's obvious that um like snow crash uh this book from Neil Stevenson is going…”
“jonathan height and luke enough talk about the coddling of the american mind and they think about that in large part as a consequence of an ideological transformation”
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“Paul program wrote a lot on on lisp. He actually has a book called on lisp. Uh and pgram's view of programming languages is more of an art rather than than a science.”
“look I I think my one of my all-time favorite books on just the the the the it would be the fabric of Reality by David Deutch I think that's the best book on trying to sort of understand the nature of…”
“My guest today is the New York Times' labor reporter, Noam Scheiber. He has a new book out today, Mutiny, The Rise and Revolt of the College Educated Working Class.”
“Welcome back to the DealMakers podcast show with serial entrepreneur Alejandro Cremades, bestselling author of The Art of Startup Fundraising and co-founder at Panthera Advisors.”
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“So the last time we chatted about your book the origins of woke around February I'm curious if you're working on a new book or if you were working on a new book what uh what what topic would would be …”
“my introduction to the startup world and excitement about it came from Reading PG's essays he's like an unbelievable writer”
“I kind of think about the ‘ there's a great book called The Idea Factory it's about the history of bell labs and um the history of the the transistor like at the time when the transistor was invented …”
“Right. Like if you read The Velvet Rage by Alan. Downs. OK. Guys, relax. Whatever it is, whatever your orientation is, let it go. Nobody cares.”
“and then maybe one of the books that's that in the last year I've read that I've enjoyed most is when we cease to understand the World by labu his amazing writer it's unbelievable book one of the best…”
“Another book that i read around the same time that had a big impact on me uh and and there was actually a little bit of overlap with john pierre as well and i read it around the same time is jeff hawk…”
“I think that to give you a little bit more credit maybe the purple Pros isn't your gift but a piece like how to be successful really influence me thank you”
“yeah accelerando uh book from the early 2000s has a version of this where basically everything is substantiated in a set of goggles that are computationally attached to your brain that you wear and th…”
“I like The Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy, the book. I really like it.”
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“The Origin of Species was published in 1859.”
“actually not so much his physics books but his more lay person books surely you're joking Mr fan uh you know the the joy of finding out things so that actually I I really recommend to any any any stud…”
“after the network state book came out, you actually there's actually an old diagram I had and then you kind of moved one more box on that diagram.”
“I have a best-selling book that sold tens of thousands of copies, so I thought, why don't I give my PARA method a try?”
“I have been reading a lot of science fiction recently. And I'm sure this has been recommended before, but The Culture, I think it's Ian Banks is the name of the author.”
“I mean, have you ever read Robert Heinland's novel, uh, the the the moon is a harsh mistress?”
“There's a great book called 'Body Keeps the Score.'”
“He's got an amazing new book, Running Down a Dream. Please, wait, wait, wait. Before we start, there it is. I just want everybody to just stop the pause the podcast. I want you to buy three copies, gi…”
“Just off the cuff, uh, have you read the Guns of August? >> Yeah. World of course. The Guns of August, I don't know why, feels >> it's incredible book.”
“@danwwang 's book Breakneck”
“This was mostly to get sort of the early adopters are right there. There's the early majority there's a book called crossing the cha chasm which sort of defines these terms and I think I remember them…”
“My junior year, a good friend of mine gave me a book. He's like, "I think you'll like this." And it was Liar's Poker. I read it in one night. Literally, it was a party that night, and I stayed in my r…”
“I decided to write a book called Founders at work and it was based on the writers at work series that how they interviewed writers about how they wrote and stuff like that and I said there's nothing o…”
“One of the first books I bought was 'Artificial Intelligence, A Modern Approach' by Russell and Norvig.”
“the super intelligence discussion like the book super intelligence was happening”
“in business I think uh uh like good to great”
“I recommend everybody read this book. It's not only from a very credible source, but you are a good writer. It's very compelling.”
“he quoted the book originals I think the book originals by Adam Graham um which you love and Um and that book says true on something like true entrepreneurs hedge their bets”
“But the books that I have found most helpful are Don't Shoot the Dog by Karen Prior. I think everybody should read that.”
“I would have to imagine, you tell me if I'm wrong at this point, you're most known for How to Change Your Mind.”
“However, one thing that never goes out of style is 1,000 True Fans by Kevin Kelly. You can read it for free at kk.org.”
“Hi, I'm Amy Loraca, the author of How to Be Well. My question for Dr. Eric Topppel has to do with the information that last week the American Heart Association issued new dietary guidelines that direc…”
“I think it was November 1st of 2021, there was a book that came out um by Eric Schmidt, Henry Kissinger, and Hooten Locker. And they talked about the age of AI and what it means for for us as as human…”
“Radiant Awakening, it's the name of my podcast. It's the name of my book that I'm working on slowly but surely.”
“I was I was writing this book. I reached out to a bunch of my my friends. These are very accomplished friends in this case to ask them for their recommendations.”
“And then maybe last but not least, it's been a long time since I read it, but the blue ocean strategy probably worth checking out because if if you choose to compete in a crowded category, you just ha…”
“Read the book 1929 by Andrew Ross Orcin. It's an incredible breakdown of how exuberance, cheap money, going allin, and a belief in the only up phenomenon financially obliterated an entire generation.”
“Peter and I just wrote uh call it a book, call it an extended essay called Solve Everything, solve everything.org. There's the plug. Where we argue that every single discipline, math, physics, chemist…”
“after I wrote Burn Book, which at the time, people were like, oh, you're so mean to them. They're such important innovators. People come to me now and they're like, you weren't mean enough. You weren'…”
“I think there is a book that is 70 pages long by a like a prominent very Noble it very to the point the founder startup founder themselves and he is Ryan brlo”
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“i have your dao seneca series in audible”
“one of my favorite quotes so probably Glennon Doyle you can do hard things that's one of my favorite ones and one that I come back to often”
“it reminds whether it's of Mel Robins 5 for 321 where it's like getting out of bed in the morning you're like oh I could just like sleep in a little bit longer scroll through Instagram but you're like…”
“oh well okay so copywriting book is um persuasion so it's chini's the psychology of persuasion so that one I'm currently reading and it is incredible because it really does help give you sort of the t…”