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1,000 True Fans
Kevin Kelly
“which I encourage everybody to read”
“the author of a famous article called "1,000 True Fans," which I encourage everybody to read”— Tim Ferriss
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Scrivener
Literature & Latte (inferred)
“Scrivener is great for moving around large chunks of text very easily”
“I find it great if you still haven't quite nailed down the organization of a book. Scrivener is great for moving around large chunks of text very easily”— Mark Manson
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Microsoft Word
Microsoft (inferred)
“if you're actually trying to go line by line and just make everything really polished and clear, I think Word”
“if you're actually trying to go line by line and just make everything really polished and clear, I think Word”— Mark Manson
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Sophie's World
Jostein Gaarder
“I recommend a book called Sophie's World”
“If you're a complete newbie to philosophy and want to get a basic understanding of the Western canon I recommend a book called Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder”— Tim Ferriss
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Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
“which I thought was a fantastic book”
“it's Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman, which I thought was a fantastic book and there are a number of chapters that really stuck out as counterintuitively helpful”— Tim Ferriss
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
David Foster Wallace
“I go back and read it every couple years and just in awe of how clever and observant he is”
“Particularly his piece A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, I go back and read it every couple years and just in awe of how clever and observant he is”— Mark Manson
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Stumbling on Happiness
Daniel Gilbert
“He's got a great book called Stumbling on Happiness... it's kind of the best book about happiness research”
“I'm a huge fan of Dan Gilbert. He's got a great book called Stumbling on Happiness... it's kind of the best book about happiness research”— Mark Manson
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Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand
“incredible story”
“I read Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand about World War II, incredible story”— Mark Manson
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All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr (inferred)
“All the Light You Cannot See was fantastic”
“I've been reading a lot of World War II stuff. All the Light You Cannot See was fantastic”— Mark Manson
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The Last Good Kiss
James Crumley
“that I thought was incredibly hilarious and came highly recommended”
“a hard boiled detective fiction novel that I thought was incredibly hilarious and came highly recommended, The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley”— Tim Ferriss
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Stories of Your Life and Others / Exhalation
Ted Chiang
“those are just incredibly strong”
“On the sci-fi side, either of the anthologies by Ted Chiang, C-H-I-A-N-G. Man, those are just incredibly strong”— Tim Ferriss
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This Is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (inferred)
“It's a fast read, super compelling”
“there is a book called This Is How You Lose the Time War... It's a fast read, super compelling”— Tim Ferriss
The guest's own work
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Mark Manson
“Mark is a three time number-one New York Times bestselling author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck, maybe you've heard of it”— Tim Ferriss
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The 4-Hour Workweek
Tim Ferriss
“it was around that time I discovered The 4-Hour Workweek. I think it had just come out or been out for a year or something”— Mark Manson
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The 4-Hour Body
Tim Ferriss
“I had the optionality at that point... to try something totally different... so I did The 4-Hour Body, and then it started to expand from there”— Tim Ferriss
BookBy the guest
Will
Will Smith
“I co-authored Will Smith's memoir, which came out last year. It's called Will. We worked on it for I think about two and a half years together”— Mark Manson
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Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope
Mark Manson
“I used Scrivener for the first draft of my first two books or for Subtle Art and for Everything's Fucked”— Mark Manson
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The Game
Neil Strauss
“In 2005, I want to say, The Game by Neil Strauss came out, somewhere around there”— Tim Ferriss
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I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
Tucker Max
“it was in that same range, 2005, 2006 that I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell came out by Tucker Max”— Tim Ferriss
MediaReferenced
Katamari Damacy
Namco (inferred)
“There's a video game called, and I don't know how it's pronounced in English actually, but Katamari Damacy in English”— Tim Ferriss
MediaReferenced
The Subtle Arts of Murder and Persuasion
Lamb of God
“I'm a big metal fan, and the band, Lamb of God, has a song called "The Subtle Arts of Murder and Persuasion"”— Mark Manson
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Die With Zero
Bill Perkins
“another, which I suspect I will find interesting, which is called Die With Zero, which is by, I believe Bill Perkins. I have not read it yet”— Tim Ferriss
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Letters from a Stoic
Seneca
“I'm going to be revisiting some of the Stoic writings, probably The Moral Letters to Lucilius by Seneca, which is commonly sold... as Letters from a Stoic”— Tim Ferriss
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The Writer's Journey
Christopher Vogler (inferred)
“I'm paying attention to, for instance, The Writer's Journey, which is effectively The Hero's Journey, adapted, but applied to writing”— Tim Ferriss
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