How Countries Go Broke
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βgreat was talking with Ray about his new book which he just published on how countries go broke...really important book awesome well doneβ
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βI'm not going to take us here, but I know you're a big fan of this book, Finite and Infinite Games. I actually had it once at a book club and it blew my mind open. I'm going to link to it. People shouβ¦β
βI had Abigail Shrier on the show. She wrote this book called Bad Therapy, sort of pushing back against therapy culture for kids specifically.β
βI read a uh I read a blog post by uh P. Mark aka Mark Andreessen where he said, 'Don't keep a schedule.' And I took that to heart. So, I deleted my calendar.β
βWhat is it? 4,000 weeks. That's your lifespan. Um and and yes, we hear that, but we don't remember it.β
βthere's a there's a class of um or or or branch of literature that happened in Latin America called magic realism with Garcia Marcus and a bunch of others. Like reading those things continues to be suβ¦β
βthere's a there's this guy Peter Hubert who wrote this book called Orwell's revenge and he rewrites 1984 and he makes a key change in the technology which is he makes the telescreen two-wayβ
βthere's a great book you might have run into it's by Chuck cluster it's called what if we're wrong... it's amazing you already know you're going to love itβ
βDisconnected Kids is the biggest-selling book, which is translated into 18 languages.β
βI was reading Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey, which I'll go and read whenever I'm in nature.β
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βor his book awareness they're both really goodβ
βAnd I hope you all enjoy Mobilize and this conversation with Madeline.β
βWell, to discuss all that, I'm joined by Paul Henninger, who's UK head of technology. and data and global AI leader at KPMG and Professor Alan Brown from the University of Exeter Business School, who'β¦β
β12 years ago, I wrote a book called Utopia for realists.β
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βI'm sure you've talked before about the sort of overproduction of elites thesis. This is Peter Turchin, a book called End Times.β
βthe book that like changed my perspective on politics was when I was 17 uh and I also became a Christian when I was 17 uh was the terrible truth about liberals written by libertarian and it actually wβ¦β
βthere's a great book about China called um Ma I think it's just called Mao and it's just like a 900 Page biography about Mao so I've read it uh I think I read it twice actually and I read a biography β¦β
βAsh vakar is amazing uh vista's yoga which has a lot of the Enlightenment stories uh Herman Hesh wrote that book sidartha which is kind of a fictionalized Buddha storyβ
βJohn Rob is excellent if you want a context in fourth generation Warfare his 2007 book Brave New war is amazingβ
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βThey describe a little bit of how the last thousand years, you know, the West grew and what was happening in China.β
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βCS Lewis, a grief observed. Um, tell me about this book. I love CS Lewis and I think, you know, everyone knows him for the Narnia Chronicles, but he was a very deep thinkerβ
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βI read this book on, I read that going clear book. Every once in a while, you know, like you read like one sentence and it like snaps your whole perspective into place a little bitβ
βaside from Neil Whitehead's book, Dark Shamans, Kanaima, and the Poetics of Violent Death, which had been published in 2010, I couldn't find muchβ
βI wrote a book about this in 2016 called The Geography of Madness, which explored everything from magical penis theft in Nigeria to wind sickness in Cambodiaβ
βthere was a 2004 anthology. Whitehead co-edited called In Darkness and Secrecy, The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazoniaβ
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βI'd read this book by Guy Kawasaki called the Macintosh way that was very inspirational to me so at some point if you are if you have high agency if you're a person that's selfmotivated which I think β¦β
βThat journey and how it intersected with her growing devotion to Zen Buddhism is the subject of her second book, Brief Flashings in the Phenomenal World.β
βShe's working on a new book called How to Disappear, A Writer's Guide to Flow. That's a working title.β
βmy in my new book the the win-win-wealth strategy i i look at real estate specifically and say what does what does it an investor get what's their share of the deal because the government gets a shareβ¦β
βMy previous book in 2019 was called the disruption mindset and I just published a new book called Winning with AI, the 90-day blueprint for success.β
βAnd there's a great book some of your listeners may have read called Anti-Fragile by the famous risk options trader Nassim Talib.β
βif you like no theater it's called benke on the bridge and it was written in the 15th centuryβ
βLike right now, people in Silicon Valley, they're reading Middle March. Like, who would have predicted that?β
βmy daughter is really into Rald Doll. I love Rald Doll because he's completely irreverent and he has a crazy imagination. So, we've been reading Witches Matilda all of his books and both my kids love β¦β
βThe book being called The Sweaty Startup, it's going to turn off people who are not entrepreneurs. And that's a shame because I think people who work a job and want to earn more money should read thisβ¦β
βHave you read Frankenstein and did you like it? Um, my son read Frankenstein and liked it.β
βI want to introduce you to this free ebook as an introduction to JavaScript because JavaScript is a main language that you need to learn and master to build web applications which is type of applicatiβ¦β
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βShe is a professor of engineering at Olin College and the author of the book, How Infrastructure Works Inside the Systems That Shape Our World.β
βsimple example is Guns Germs and Steel you know where he has a really Jared Diamond has a beautiful explanation of um you know why certain cultures evolved and others didn'tβ
βDonald Trump and I have written two books together is one of our books. Why I want you to be rich. Let's fight back.β
βI think you have to remove the person from the theories you have to read um both of his books I would argue um and you would have to absorb them fairly well it's not a small Endeavor but on the other β¦β
βI wrote a book called the capitalist manifesto, and it's about how Matt Stalin and those guys says the way to take over America is through the school system.β
βThis episode is another one in the All in this together series celebrating the release of Jack's new book of stories and teachings on caring for each other and the world. It is truly one of my favoritβ¦β
βoh I've just finished reading this this book I thought you might want it to read on your way home and it was called the Friday night in a teen club it was like this Chiclets book and it just it was reβ¦β
βit 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 likeβ¦β
βMartin Gurri wrote, I think, the best book on this called the Revolt of the Public , where he goes through this in detail.β
βA book is called Men, Machines, and Modern Times . And it's written by this MIT professor, like, 60 years ago.β
βAnd he's the author of this book here, Kill to Order. And it's a very important book for those you want to know your enemy.β
βAnd it brought to mind, James Barrat's book Our Final Invention, which is if you ever recursively self-improving AI system that attains AGI and then maybe even attain super intelligence.β
βSo, what I did is I went back and I read your book, was The Unicorn's Shadow?β
βI read this book. I went to military school in New York and um we were required to read the communist manifesto and I asked my economics teachers why you reading a communist manifesto and as military β¦β
βBut today, we're going to talk about his latest, The Money Habit, The Worry-Free Way to Financial Independence.β
βIan Mortimer historian of medieval England who wrote fabulous book about both Mortimer and Edward IIIβ
βit was also the subject of another book that I loved as a child which gave a very different perspective on the 14th century and the 100 Years War which was a distant Mirror by Barbara tuckmanβ
βin deep medicine book that the gift of time all these things that we've been talking about like the front door that could be used by the the the model the coming up with the diagnosisβ
βArthur Conan Doyle thought that sir Nigel and the other in the same series The White company were better than Sherlock Holmesβ
βsir Nigel which you recommended to me you regard that as one of the great landmarks in uh Western literature don't youβ
βToday on the show, you heard Gretchen Bakke, author of The Grid, The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy.β
βHe's the author of many books, Profit First, Clockwork, Fix This Next, Allin. But today, we're going to talk about his latest, The Money Habit, The Worry-Free Way to Financial Independence.β
βHave you read H.W. Brands' Strange Death of American Liberalism? I haven't actually. No, I'm familiar with H.W. Brands, some of his other work, but I haven't read that. So it's not to besmirch a felloβ¦β
βi read a book called the rise and fall of the third reich is this huge volume i recommend people read it it tells the story of how hitler came to power and it tells the story from the perspective of tβ¦β
βHis forthcoming book, How to Rule the World in Education and Power at Stanford University, excerpted earlier this month in The Atlantic and already optioned for a film, is a portrait of what Baker calβ¦β
βIn her book, Burnout, Emily Nagoski said, we need 42% of our day to be in rest and recovery mode.β
βif you're familiar with that there's the E quadrant that's employees the S quadrant self-employed then there's B quadrant big business and the I quadrant investing and really Robert's goal is get everβ¦β
βI serve one French trench journal. Le Soucisse, quoted by Neil Ferguson, his book, The Pity of Warβ
βThese stories, by the way, that he relates uh are mainly from the book that he put together Miracle of Love in the mid-late 70s.β
βHe's the author of many books, Profit First, Clockwork, Fix This Next, Allin. But today, we're going to talk about his latest, The Money Habit, The Worry-Free Way to Financial Independence.β
βStorm of Steel, his book, which I really recommend. It's fantastic.β
βif you want to find out what happened next, I think the thing to do is to read the book because I don't want to do the whole bookβ
βOn today's show, we're here with Dr. Colin Fisher, professor, jazz trumpet player, and author of The Collective Edge, talking about the real science of group dynamics, creativity, and leadership.β
βSo, have you read a book called Hyperion? >> No, but I'm aware of it. >> Okay. Well, first of all, Jason, my gift to you, read it. It'll blow your mind. It's It's crazy. You've never read anything likβ¦β
βAnd then there was this my life in advertising and scientific advertising by uh David uh these are two works by Claude Hopkins. And you know my thesis is um there are a lot of lessons that were learneβ¦β
βThe show is hosted by Katie Milkman. She's an award-winning behavioral scientist, professor at the Wharton School, and author of the best-selling book, How to Change.β
βSo when I interviewed Steve for the Geekway, and I was incredibly eager to interview him because about 10 years ago, I met him in Silicon Valley at a conference.β
βShe's co-author of the HPR article, How to Disagree, and has a new book out called How to Disagree Better.β
βI'm reading the audiobook version while I push my kids around in strollers. Uh it's called the Kingdom Trilogy. First book is These Burning Stars. I am not a like um I'm not into books that are like tβ¦β
βThis will make you a better decision-maker | Annie Duke (author of βThinking in Betsβ and βQuit,β former pro poker player)β
βThis will make you a better decision-maker | Annie Duke (author of βThinking in Betsβ and βQuit,β former pro poker player)β
βThe Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness : https://www.amazon.com/Joy-Living-Unlocking-Science-Happiness/dp/0307347311β
βAwareness: Conversations with the Masters : https://www.amazon.com/Awareness-Opportunities-Reality-Anthony-Mello/dp/0385249373β
βUm so the a wonderful book to read about this is by a Dutch historian named Ruter Bregman. It's called humankind.β
βI put my iPad down, grabbed my book, Operation Chastised, and walked down to the beach to watch the sunrise and read. Great vacation, but that streaming snag was a disappointment.β
βI heard um β uh Nicholas Wade, who's β he he wrote this book, very interesting book that I read like 20 years ago. β It was called β uh Before the Dawn or Beyond the Dawn.β
βThe abundance story I would tell at the beginning would be near the Hill Country in Texas. And there's this huge section of The Path to Power, the first Robert Caro's four going on, hopefully five-volβ¦β