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Wiser Than Yesterday: Educational Book Reviews and Summaries — 84 episodes
The Language Puzzle: How we talked our way out of the Stone Age - Steven Mithen
Bruce Lee: Artist of life - The 6 habits of power and wisdom from a legend
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human - Richard Wrangham
Thinking Fast & Slow - Daniel Kahneman
Impact: How to Measure World Change
Poor Charlie's Almanac - Charlie Munger
The World Until Yesterday - Jared Diamond - Stone Age Lessons on Innovation
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon - Brad Stone
Morgan Housel - Same As Ever: Timeless lessons on risk, opportunity and living a good life.
The Dark Forest - Liu Cixin [Three Body Problem pt.2]
No Offence, But... by Gina Martin
The Signal and The Noise - Nate Silver
The 48 Laws of Power - Robert Greene
The changing world order - Ray Dalio
The Three Body Problem - Cixin Liu
False Alarm - Bjorn Lomborg - The cost of climate change panic
The Culture Code: Secrets of Highly Successful Groups - Daniel Coyle
4000 weeks: Time management for mortals - Oliver Burkeman
The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch
How To Change Your Mind - Michael Pollan
Body Keeps the score
We're back - A quick update
NEURODIVERSITY: The Man Who Mistook His Wife and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
NEURODIVERSITY - PSYCHOPATHS: The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success by Kevin Dutton
NEURODIVERSITY - AUTISM: NeuroTribes; The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silberman
NEURODIVERSITY - ADHD: Faster Than Normal: Turbocharge Your Focus, Productivity, and Success with the Secrets of the ADHD Brain by Peter Shankman
Investing Recap
Investing: Art of the Deal: Contemporary Art in a Global Financial Market by Noah Horowitz
Investing: What is Decentralized Finance or DeFi
Investing: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness by Eric Jorgenson
Investing: The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness by Morgan Housel
Investing: The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment by Guy Spier
Investing: Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups—Timeless Advice from an Angel Investor Who Turned $100,000 Into $100,000,000 by Jason Calacanis
Investing: NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens), explained
Investing: The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking by Saifedean Ammous
Investing: The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
Investing: Talking To My Daughter About The Economy by Yanis Varoufakis
Investing: Introduction to Investing
Body Recap
Body: Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
Body: Death by Food Pyramid - Denise Minger
Body: Burn by Herman Pontzer
Body: Gut by Giulia Enders
Body: Lifespan by Dr. Savid Sinclair
Body: Breath by James Nestor
Body: Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
Body: If Our Bodies Could Talk by James Hamblin
Business Recap
Business: Good Strategy, Bad Strategy - Richard Rumelt
Business: Venture Deals - Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson
Business: Hooked - Nir Eyal
Business: Obviously Awesome - April Dunford
Business: The High Growth Handbook
Business: The Messy Middle - Scott Belsky
Business: The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Ben Horowitz
Business: The Lean Startup - Eric Ries
Business: Shoe Dog - Phil Knight - The story of Nike
The best books of 2020
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
Seneca - On the Shortness of Life
The Republic - Plato
Epicurus
Enchiridion by Epictetus
The Confessions by Saint Augustine of Hippo
The final days of Socrates - Plato
Season Recap: Racism and Inequality
Nonviolent Communication - Marshall Rosenberg
Discrimination and Disparities - Thomas Sowell
How to be an antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi
White fragility - Robin DiAngelo
Why I'm no longer talking to white people about race - Rene Eddo-Lodge
Hope in the Dark - Rebecca Solnit
12. Skin in the Game - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
11. Antifragile - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
10. The Bed of Procrustes - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
8. Fooled By Randomness - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
7. Do You Talk Funny? - David Nihil
6. Finite and Infinite Games - James P. Carse
5. Invisible Women - Caroline Criado Perez
4. The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists - Niel Strauss
3. Why Buddhism is True - Robert Wright
9. The Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
2. The Elephant in the Brain - Kevin Simler & Robin Hanson
1. Introduction - The Big Plan