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Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA
Daniel Carpenter
“it's a good book... it is well worth reading”
“do you recommend the book it's a good book yeah or it's it's now a little bit outdated okay because... still as a history of the FDA it is well worth reading”— Balaji Srinivasan
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Limitless
Neil Burger (inferred)
“the movie Limitless which I love”
“the opposite of like the Icarus or Picture of Dorian Gray kind of thing is the movie Limitless which I love because it's so”— Balaji Srinivasan
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The Network State: How to Start a New Country
Balaji Srinivasan
“a lot of the stuff will go into the version so I've got you know this book the network State um which which covers some of these topics”— Balaji Srinivasan
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Exit, Voice, and Loyalty
Albert O. Hirschman
“there's this you know book which I I reference a lot I like it um called exit voice and loyalty by Albert hman”— Balaji Srinivasan
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Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State)
Theodor Herzl
“is Der Juden by The Herzel which translates as the Jewish State and that led to the foundation of Israel and that's very real it's worth reading”— Balaji Srinivasan
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Seeing Like a State
James C. Scott (inferred)
“there's a book called seeing like a state which actually talks about the origins of surnames and whatnot”— Balaji Srinivasan
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The Sovereign Individual
James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg (inferred)
“I've talked about this in the book The Sovereign indidual has talked about this but very roughly you know you go up into 1950”— Balaji Srinivasan
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The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
Amity Shlaes
“Amy schay you know has written a book The Forgotten man and essentially her thesis and thesis of many others”— Balaji Srinivasan
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Red Famine
Anne Applebaum
“because I visited Ukraine I've read red famine by an apple bomb bloodlands Y and it's just just a lot of coverage of the senses”— Lex Fridman
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Bloodlands
Timothy Snyder (inferred)
“I've read red famine by an apple bomb bloodlands Y and it's just just a lot of coverage of the senses”— Lex Fridman
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Mao's Great Famine
Frank Dikotter
“there's a good book I'm read because... like I'm currently reading miles Great Famine by Frank deart yeah which is uh oh boy it's crazy”— Balaji Srinivasan
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde (inferred)
“there's this book called The Picture of Dorian Gray right and the concept is sell your soul to you know ensure the picture”— Balaji Srinivasan
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The Gray Lady Winked
Ashley Rindsberg
“Ashley rinberg in the great lady wink writes this whole thing up at length so you can go and read it for his account”— Balaji Srinivasan
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Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19
Alina Chan and Matt Ridley
“Matt Matt Ridley and alen Chan of in this book you know on um whether the Corona virus was a lab leak or not”— Balaji Srinivasan
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The Man Who Created Fidel
Anthony DePalma (inferred)
“there's this book on this called the man who created Fidel okay where basically nyt's article was crucial positive press”— Balaji Srinivasan
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Red Star Over China
Edgar Snow
“he wrote various books including like red star over China okay and it's just a he geography of of ma”— Balaji Srinivasan
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Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An
Larry Berman (inferred)
“perfect spy the incredible double life of Pham fan on Time Magazine reporter and Vietnamese communist agent”— Balaji Srinivasan
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Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
Norman Ohler (inferred)
“Blitz the book that's talks about the influence of drugs in the Third Reich right were they on meth or something”— Lex Fridman
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The Problem of China
Bertrand Russell
“bertran Russell actually wrote this whole long book... about uh the problem of China and one of his observations”— Balaji Srinivasan
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Dallas Buyers Club
Jean-Marc Vallee (inferred)
“the kind of stuff that was dramatized in Dallas virus Club where they were preventing people from getting AIDS drugs”— Balaji Srinivasan
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Ghostbusters
Ivan Reitman (inferred)
“one is actually the original Ghostbusters okay... so the EPA is actually the villain in that”— Balaji Srinivasan
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Full Metal Jacket
Stanley Kubrick (inferred)
“movies like um you know full metal jacket that was meant to be in my my understanding is meant to be like an anti-war movie”— Balaji Srinivasan
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Minority Report
Steven Spielberg (inferred)
“Minority Report had the the gesture thing right and the connect was based on that so it's a dystopian movie”— Balaji Srinivasan
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Inglourious Basterds
Quentin Tarantino
“in glorious bastards there's a scene in the bar do you want talk about it”— Balaji Srinivasan
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The Soviet Story
Edvins Snore (inferred)
“there's this movie called the Soviet story it basically shows a lot of Nazi and Soviet propaganda things next to each other”— Balaji Srinivasan
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Civilization
Sid Meier (inferred)
“the tech tree model of History you know like Civilization you're play game civilization yeah”— Balaji Srinivasan
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Minecraft
Markus Persson (Notch) (inferred)
“you have an individual like Notch who can program Minecraft by himself or Satoshi”— Balaji Srinivasan
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PillPack
PillPack
“there's a company called uh pillpack which innovated on quote the user interface for drugs by giving people a thing which had like a daily blister pack”— Balaji Srinivasan
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