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Body for Life
Bill Phillips
“I think it's a work of Genius this book and it really got me in shape”
“I picked up this book by Bill Phillips called Body for Life and it's really really such a system I think it's a work of Genius this book”— Jerry Seinfeld
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On the Shortness of Life
Seneca
“so good this perhaps the best Manifesto for our current struggle with this very notion of productivity versus presence”
“I just revisited the shortness of Life so good this perhaps the best Manifesto for our current struggle with productivity versus presence”— Tim Ferriss
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Tara Brach's books
Tara Brach
“she has changed my life perhaps more profoundly than anybody in my life so I highly highly recommend her”
“she has changed my life perhaps more profoundly than anybody in my life so I highly highly recommend her Tara Brach she has two books out”— Maria Popova
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Alan Watts books
Alan Watts
“Alan Watts has changed my life I've written about in quite a fit so highly recommend”
“any Alan Watts piece Alan Watts has changed my life I've written about it quite a bit so highly recommend any of those articles”— Maria Popova
The guest's own work
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Is This Anything?
Jerry Seinfeld
“his latest book is is this anything you can find Jerry on Twitter and Instagram at jerry seinfeld”— Tim Ferriss
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Seinfeld
Jerry Seinfeld (inferred)
“co-creator of the Emmy Golden Globe and People's Choice award-winning Seinfeld named the greatest television show of all time by TV Guide”— Tim Ferriss
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The 4-Hour Workweek
Tim Ferriss
“when I was writing the 4-Hour Work week as my first book I still to this day find writing very challenging”— Tim Ferriss
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The Black Stallion
“I've seen people that were given black stallions and if you have a black stallion like from that movie and you're born and they just put you on it”— Jerry Seinfeld
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In the Heart of the Sea
Nathaniel Philbrick (inferred)
“it's like in the heart of the sea you know that book yep Ron Howard made the movie when they're dropping like flies”— Jerry Seinfeld
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In the Heart of the Sea
Ron Howard
“it's like in the heart of the sea you know that book yep Ron Howard made the movie when they're dropping like flies”— Jerry Seinfeld
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Waking Up
Sam Harris
“I saw your your review of his latest book waking up an annotated reading of waking up which I found really impactful for me in a lot of ways”— Tim Ferriss
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The Essential Scratch and Sniff Guide to Becoming a Wine Expert
Richard Betts
“it's the essential scratch and sniff Guide to Becoming a wine expert the illustrations are wonderful Richard Betts is the sommelier who was part of that”— Tim Ferriss
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Werner Herzog: A Guide for the Perplexed
Paul Cronin (inferred)
“I just finished reading this kind of 600 page interview with him a conversation that a journalist named Paul Cronin had with him over the course of 30 years”— Maria Popova
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Good Will Hunting
“the hottie pompous college student in Goodwill Hunting in the bar scene who's like reciting you know Shakespeare”— Tim Ferriss
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Kindle app
Amazon (inferred)
“I prefer electronic so I use the Kindle app on the iPad or any PDF viewer because I read a lot of archival stuff”— Maria Popova
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iPad
Apple (inferred)
“I use the Kindle app on the iPad or any PDF viewer because I read a lot of archival stuff”— Maria Popova
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Evernote
Evernote (inferred)
“I pay them into an Evernote file to sort of just have all of my notes in a specific book in one place”— Maria Popova
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TextWrangler
Bare Bones Software (inferred)
“I used to take notes and drop them into text Wrangler which is used for coding a lot just to remove the formatting”— Tim Ferriss
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Coda
Panic (inferred)
“yeah I do that with Koda yeah it's true though there but there's got to be a solution”— Maria Popova
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WordPress
Automattic (inferred)
“it is on WordPress I was going to make a joke about how the technology is called corpus callosum”— Maria Popova
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TRX
TRX (inferred)
“Plyometrics and TRX is actually quite handy there's a for some reason it just not my thing can't get into it”— Tim Ferriss
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Weighted jump rope
“I actually carry a weighted jump rope with me when I travel in case there's nowhere to do Sprints which is my plan B for cardio”— Maria Popova
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Buffer
Buffer (inferred)
“I use buffer for Twitter and I use just my hands for Facebook”— Maria Popova
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PayPal
PayPal (inferred)
“I use PayPal for donations and I can for the life of me figure out how to actually look at the data”— Maria Popova
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