Infinite Loops
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- 1 Bhagavad GitaUnknown · 1× across 1 episode
- 2 Isis UnveiledHelena Blavatsky · 1× across 1 episode
- 3 The Egg and the RockJulian Goff · 1× across 1 episode TE
- 4 The Life of the CosmosLee Smolin · 1× across 1 episode
- 5 What is Life?Erwin Schrödinger · 1× across 1 episode
“the classic text on it is Celdini's Influence. I don't know whether you've read that or not”
“Which is called Pattern breakers. Why some startups Change the future”
“That comes from the uh the observation of uh the book Jonathan Living's Seagull, right”
“You know, that book and illusions and A bunch of other things”
“an author I love. Who actually wrote. A really good book on capitalism called The Genius of the Beast”
“There's a there's a book I really like that kinda gets to what you're saying called uh The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch”
“invest like the best and what works on Wall Street. And I still maintain to this day That what works on Wall Street in particular put me on the map”
“I remember when I was going through the line of edits uh for my book How to Retire Rich”
“I don't know if you're a fan of Ken Stanley's greatness can't be plan”
“Gold Lessure Boch. Kind of like Soros' book. Oh my God. I don't know if you've read it. I've read it”
“I'm sure you've read Childini's influence, right”
“His new book, The Twelve Levers, boils down 106 self-help books and 23 therapies into 12 core strategies”
“I tried to write uh the book I'm best known for, What Works on Wall Street. Following the scientific method”
“a book called Molecules of Emotion in which she said it can actually start a chain reaction of things like neuropeptides, et cetera, flooding your system”
“he starts breaking out all these You know, and what works on Wall Street, you say this, but I think If you refer to these papers that I read over here, and I'm like wow, okay, good for you”
“I got an early copy of um A Cato fellow wrote a book called The I think it's called The Bad Old Days”
“I have an essay about sex in which I write a lot about Lady Chatterley's lover, which I would like my parents to maybe skip”
“he walked me into the library and he pointed at the Encyclopedia Britannica and he said Read that”
“It's uh Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Don't panic”
“he has that great quote uh where he says in the beginning of Infinity, you know, what were uh thinkers and scientists uh thinking and saying about uh the internet in nineteen hundred”
“So in Rainbow's End. Uh, which has an interesting plot about uh deconstructing a library”
“And also great Neil Stevenson sci-fi book on that one, Snow Crash. Where uh Babylonian uh uh and uh They inserted that meme set into computer programmers”
“I'm sure you're a fan of nineteen eighty four. You know, the the party's last and most enduring command was ignore the uh evidence of your eyes, ears, et cetera”
“when I read this little idea deep in a book by Steve Pavlina called Personal Development for Smart People”
“called How to Live. It has like 27 different opinionated versions of here's how to live”
“Ken Stanley wrote a great book called Greatness Can't Be Planned”
“His book, The Beginning of Infinity, is a sort of a definitive look at how I look at the world”
“with my newest book, Useful Not True, the goal was to make it so catchy that in theory, if I were to practice for just, say, a few weeks, I would be able to stand up on stage and word for word tell you the whole book from memory”
“my colleagues say, well, what do you think of this? And, you know, they try to be nice. It's like, well, okay. So so what I finally did, we also have our own AI stack. We have our own hardware, our own software, everything. And so it's not nerfed. It's”
“another title and an author, uh, Philodemus. on God's book eight, which means that there were at least eight books on God by this guy”
“Remnants of the first two chapters of the book of Leviticus from the Old Testament”
“I remember I think Money Ball came out in Two thousand three, the movie is like twenty eleven”
“The first book I wrote was called Invest Like the Best, How to Use Your Computer to Unlock the Secrets of the Top Money Managers”
“This is from the second page, I believe, of Camp of the Saints. I am I was going to read this, I was going to reread this And I just couldn't do it”
“Today I really want to talk about it. Yeah. About your new non fiction. Uh book called The Egg and the Rock”
“a few years later he he uh writes a book about it, uh The Life of the Cosmos”
“his book What is Life is essentially if you haven't if you if you haven't read it, you should read it”
“There's actually a good book called The Half Life of Facts. Yeah. By this guy Sam Arbisman who actually works with Lux”
“I'm sure you know the book The User Illusion. Have you no, I don't”
“another book that I P that I go on and on about is The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch”
“and it's all about his thesis is Why did these cults work out so well”
“the book that I mentioned to you earlier, The New Inquisition, Irrational Rationalism, and The Citadel of Science by my pal Robert Anton Wilson”
“writes his book, How to Change Your Mind, and I'm reading it”
“there's a book actually called Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon”
“In that book. Were the high school years of the people that I was writing about”
“there's this book that got really popular a few years ago called Hunt Gather Parent. that talked about kind of like tangential and similar ideas”
“I discovered you well before I met you with your first book, The Death of Common Sense”
“a book called The Hypomanic Edge, Why America has a little craziness, but a lot of success, right”
“It's really Called They Made America. And it's a coffee table book of five to ten thousand word essays”
“Bill Bryson has a great book, America One Summer, and it looks at the twenties”
“I'm a big fan of uh the book The Beginning of Infinity and he he talks a lot in that book about um the precautionary principle”
“It's called Burning Money How public unions made government unmanageable”
“I am delighted to welcome back San Geek. Chowdry, the best-selling author of Platform Revolution”
“and the one that I really want to talk about, the newer Reshuffle, Who Wins When the AI Restacks the Knowledge Economy”
“the weirdest people in the world, I don't know if you're familiar with the book”
“you know a well known book called Power and Progress”
“the first one i ironically was the very first episode I ever did, which was Hamlet”
“one of the best parts in the Lord of the Rings Which the movies cover, but they change it”
“I know which which is one of your favorite episodes of my podcast in The Hound of the Baskervilles”
“The Encyclopedia Brown series, which I would just tear through, and then the Moss Flower and Madameo series by Brian Jacques”
“in my apartment last night with my kids because they have read it at this point, where the red fern grows”
“I guess I remember the Lord of the Rings trilogy, reading that with my father”
“And then and then fast forward a little bit just after Crime and punishment, it was Moby Dick”
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