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Cover of Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy · 2016
Mentioned 17 times across 9 podcasts · 2019–2026
Mention timeline17 mentions
20192026
Where it's mentioned
2026
How Much Credit Do You Deserve for Your Life?
The Michael Shermer Show · Oct 2026
“The other one he gives is one where it doesn't work out, which is um Anakaranina”
#503 – AI Crisis in Math: Navier-Stokes, Riemann Hypothesis & Complexity Theory
Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2026
“I'm reminded of um The opening line for Anna Karinina. You know. Every happy family is happy in the same way and every unhappy family is unhappy in their own way”
How Your Situation Shapes You (with Angela Duckworth)
EconTalk · Oct 2026
“Hey, have you read Anna Karenina chapter two today”
Lives Wasted and Well-Lived: David Wolpe on The Death of Ivan Ilyich
EconTalk · Oct 2026
“he writes Anna Karenina, which is one of the great masterpieces of world literature, and then says I I he repudiates it and says I shouldn't have written it”
Why Am I Unhappy?
Hidden Brain · Oct 2026
“In his great novel. Anna Karanina. Leo Tolstoy spends hundreds of pages describing Count Vronsky's desperate longing to be with Anna”
The Art and Obsession of Writing with Rich Cohen
The Daily Stoic · Oct 2026
“and it's a page from Anna Karinina. Yeah”
Luke Harding and Alastair Campbell: Trump, Putin and the New Age of Conquest (Part Two)
Intelligence Squared · Sep 2026
“of an evening reading Anna Karenina with a w with a with a cup of camomal tea”
AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (OpenAI’s product lead)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Aug 2026
“Another book that I might recommend as a as like a book that people should read Um I really love uh Anna Karenina”
#424 Peter Thiel on How to Build a Creative Monopoly
Founders · Jul 2026
“Tolstoy opens Anna Karinina by observing. All happy families are alike. Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”
2025
The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code | Dan Shipper (co-founder/CEO of Every)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Jul 2025
“I'm reading Anna Karanana right now. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Also Tolstein”
How to build a team that can “take a punch”: A playbook for building resilient, high-performing teams | Hilary Gridley (Head of Core Product, Whoop)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Jun 2025
“I'm reading Anna Karenana right now”
How Palantir built the ultimate founder factory | Nabeel S. Qureshi (founder, writer, ex-Palantir)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · May 2025
“I just my favorite novel is Caronilla. And I recommend that everyone read Eric. I'm reading that right now”
2024
#719: Walk & Talk with Greg McKeown — How to Find Your Purpose and Master Essentialism in 2024
The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2024
“Was Anna Karena you know opened the brilliant line. All unhappy families are unhappy in their own way and it Happy families. A happy in one way”
2023
#671: Bobby Hundreds — Building an Iconic Streetwear Brand, Making $7 Million in 40 Minutes, The Power of Garfield, Why Korean Entertainment is Taking Over the World, Maintaining the Mystery, The Fickleness of Fortune, and Developing “Nunchi”
The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2023
“Even before I started kindergarten, I was reading For books and not children's books, but actual More or less. Anna Karinana”
2020
#156 Theodore Roosevelt
Founders · Nov 2020
“Read the whole of Anna Carinian”
#455: Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks on Powerful Books, Mystics, Richard Dawkins, and the Dangers of Safe Spaces
The Tim Ferriss Show · Aug 2020
“Right up there with Tolstoy's Anna Karanina”
2019
#60 Yvon Chouinard: What We've Learned from Patagonia's First 40 Years
Founders · Feb 2019
“As the scene in Anna Kare Carina. Uh. I should know how to pronounce that book by now. Anna Corinna? Uh where the aristocrat aristocrat Levin size wheat with his peasants”