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26: Fix Yourself First: 12 Rules for Life by Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
26: Fix Yourself First: 12 Rules for Life by Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
“Order and chaos are the yang and yin of the famous Taoist symbol: two serpents, head to tail. Order is the white, masc... Read more
27 Feb 2018
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41: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life. The Elephant in the Brain by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
41: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life. The Elephant in the Brain by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
We, human beings, are a species that’s not only capable of acting on hidden motives—we’re designed to do it. Our brains ... Read more
12 Jun 2018
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50: Your Fate Belongs to You. The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
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“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth livin... Read more
14 Aug 2018
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58: Psychedelics and Self-Discovery. Food of the Gods by Terence McKenna
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If psychedelics are one thing we can all agree on, is that it will make a lot of people happy. There's a lot of people w... Read more
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59: Eternal Human Psychology: The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene
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Let us call the collection of these forces that push and pull at us from deep within human nature. Human nature stems fr... Read more
23 Apr 2019
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19: How Our Mortality Drives Our Lives: The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
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“It’s this denial of death that is our main psychological challenge.” In this episode of Made You Think, Neil and I disc... Read more
11 Jan 2018
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38: Who is John Galt? Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
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“If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his ches... Read more
22 May 2018
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33: An Animal of No Significance: Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari – Part I
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Three important revolutions shaped the course of history: the Cognitive Revolution kick-started history about 70,000 yea... Read more
17 Apr 2018
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45: More Knowledge, More Problems. The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
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“It is inevitable that we face problems but no particular problem is inevitable we survive and thrive by solving each pr... Read more
10 Jul 2018
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27: How to Buy Fake Science: Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Cornway
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“If we read an article in the newspaper presenting two opposing viewpoints, we assume both have validity, and we think i... Read more
6 Mar 2018
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12: Intelligence, Art, Music, and Life are a Strange Loop: Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
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The strange loop phenomenon occurs whenever by moving upwards or downwards through the levels of some hierarchical syste... Read more
14 Nov 2017
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20: Six Ways to Make People Do What You Want: Influence by Robert Cialdini
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“It is odd that despite their current widespread use and looming future importance, most of us know very little about ou... Read more
16 Jan 2018
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49: The Power of Serendipity. Happy Accidents by Morton A Meyers
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“Discovery requires serendipity but serendipity is not a chance event alone. It is a process in which a chance of event ... Read more
7 Aug 2018
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60: What the f**k is water? Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
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“This wise old whiskery fish swims up to three young fish and goes, 'Morning, boys, how's the water?' and swims away; an... Read more
7 May 2019
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1hr 42mins
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30: Only Those Who Do Should Talk: Skin In The Game by Nassim Taleb
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“Skin in the Game is about four topics in one: a) uncertainty and the reliability of knowledge (both practical and scien... Read more
27 Mar 2018
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13: How to Think Like Elon Musk
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We all have these things in our life that we accept as a first principle while having no scientific basis or reason for ... Read more
21 Nov 2017
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61: Infinite Discussions. The most Credible and Incredible Theories behind Infinite Jest
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21 May 2019
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9: All Limitations are Self-Limitations: Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse
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Every move that an infinite player makes is towards the horizon, and every move a finite player makes is within a bounda... Read more
24 Oct 2017
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17: Charlie Munger’s Guide to Better Decisions: The Psychology of Human Misjudgments
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I had found that theory was a superpower in helping one get what one wanted, as I had early discovered in school where I... Read more
19 Dec 2017
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8: Get Off the Cocaine Pellet Dispenser: Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
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For some people, yes, computers are necessary and valuable, but for a lot of other people, they are simply accelerating ... Read more
17 Oct 2017
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