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Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective
Kenneth O. Stanley (inferred)
“I recommend this to a hundred people. Love this book”
“Why greatness cannot be planned. I recommend this to a hundred people. Love this book. It's by a guy named Ken Stanley and another guy who were AI researchers.”— Ev Williams
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Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away
Annie Duke (inferred)
“There's a great book by the way by Andy Duke called quit which I highly recommend”
“There's a great book by the way by Andy Duke called quit which I highly recommend. Um and it's actually was part of the reason a couple years ago I stepped down from Medium”— Ev Williams
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert Pirsig (inferred)
“Zen murder cycle is great”
“Zen murder cycle is great, but I will mention one book very related to the conversation, which is, have you read why greatness cannot be planned?”— Ev Williams
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What's Our Problem?
Tim Urban (inferred)
“Great book, by the way. Tim Urban's book”
“Tim Urban style, right? It's like you got time for however many books left in your life. Right. Great book, by the way. Tim Urban's book. I have that.”— Tim Ferriss
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All Fours
Miranda July (inferred)
“It's good. She was hilarious”
“Oh, I just read this Miranda July book. All fours. Okay. It's good. She was hilarious. It's random.”— Ev Williams
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The Way
Henry Shukman (inferred)
“The way is fantastic. Yeah, Henry Shookman just an incredible guy”
“The way is a meditation app. I hadn't used a meditation app for years. I started using the way and Kevin sent it to me actually around when it was still in beta”— Ev Williams
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Hoffman Process
The Hoffman Institute (inferred)
“Probably the best thing I've ever done in that realm is Hoffman”
“Probably the best thing I've ever done in that realm is Hoffman. So, there's this thing called the Hoffman process. It's 20 years of therapy in a week in terms of the effect.”— Ev Williams
The guest's own work
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The 4-Hour Workweek
Tim Ferriss
“that particular Southby is very nostalgic for me because I launched the 4-hour work week with an overflow presentation in 2007”— Tim Ferriss
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Mosy
Ev Williams
“I started a company called Mosy uh within the last year and Mosy is a app for finding out where your friends are in and getting together”— Ev Williams
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Ev Williams (inferred)
“So, you mentioned something came out of audio. What came out of audio? A company called Twitter. I still call it that.”— Ev Williams
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Blogger
Ev Williams (inferred)
“In fact, Blogger uh which is the company I sold to Google. I completely ran out of money uh after a.com bust”— Ev Williams
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Medium
Ev Williams (inferred)
“a couple years ago I I stepped down from Medium which is my last company I was running for a long time. I I quit my job.”— Ev Williams
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Odeo
Ev Williams (inferred)
“So, Odo was a podcasting company that I co-ounded in 2005, which if you recall was pre iPhone”— Ev Williams
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Thinking in Bets
Annie Duke (inferred)
“So Andy Duke for people who might not recognize the name, well-known poker player, also wrote Thinking in Bets, I believe.”— Tim Ferriss
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The Effective Executive
Peter Drucker (inferred)
“This may have changed because this is from 2016, but Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pierig, The Effective Executive by Peter Ducker.”— Tim Ferriss
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Little, Big
John Crowley (inferred)
“Little big by John Crowley. This is the one book that I hesitate to recommend because nine out of 10 people are just like, what the recommendation.”— Tim Ferriss
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The One
Heinrich Pas (inferred)
“there's a book I'm reading right now called The One by Henry Poss. I don't know anything about him. The one is about it's about how it's monism.”— Ev Williams
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iTunes
Apple (inferred)
“This is in 2005. Apple released podcast in iTunes that summer in 2005 which completely blew us away. It was totally unexpected.”— Ev Williams
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Plaxo
Plaxo (inferred)
“it's very old idea like the Plaxo idea if you remember that. I do remember I remember hearing about PLAO 2001 or something like that”— Ev Williams
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