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Tim Ferriss · 2021-08-26

Jimmy Wales - Wikipedia’s Real Genesis Story, The Questioning Mind, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show

Jimmy Wales - Wikipedia’s Real Genesis Story, The Questioning Mind, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show

Recommended on this episode

BookRecommendedISBN verified

The Fountainhead

Ayn Rand (inferred)

“the fountainhead being a real mind-blowing eye-opening book for me”
“very excited by iron rand and in particular the fountainhead being a real mind-blowing eye-opening book for me”— Jimmy Wales
BookRecommendedISBN verified

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Stephen Covey

“are there any books in particular that you have gifted... recommended I would say there are two... one would be seven habits of effective people”
“one would be seven habits of effective people which is a classic stephen covey kind of motivation self-help kind of thing”— Jimmy Wales
BookRecommendedISBN verified

Your Money or Your Life

Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez (inferred)

“recommended I would say there are two... and then the other one is a book called your money or your life”
“the other one is a book called your money or your life which is basically sets forth the argument that you don't need as much money as you think to live”— Jimmy Wales

The guest's own work

MediaBy the guest

Wikipedia

Wikimedia Foundation

“he is founder of the online non-profit encyclopedia wikipedia and co-founder of the privately owned wikia inc”— Tim Ferriss
MediaBy the guest

Fandom (powered by Wikia)

Wikia Inc.

“co-founder of the privately owned wikia inc including its entertainment media brand fandom powered by wikia”— Tim Ferriss
ProductBy the guest

WT.Social (WikiTribune Social)

Jimmy Wales

“in 2019 jimmy launched wt social a news focused social network”— Tim Ferriss
BookBy the guestISBN verified

The 4-Hour Workweek

Tim Ferriss

“four hour work week which by the way also had a huge impact on me my favorite story about that is i read four hour work week”— Jimmy Wales
BookBy the guestISBN verified

The 4-Hour Body

Tim Ferriss

“I recommended it in fact in the 4-hour body this is more than 10 years ago and i did not get paid to do so”— Tim Ferriss
ProductBy the guest

Quiz Night Beyond

Jimmy Wales

“i created a new website which is called quiz night beyond where it's just like a fun website so it's all about quizzes”— Jimmy Wales
MediaBy the guest

WikiSource

Wikimedia Foundation (inferred)

“so we created a separate project called wikisource where people put all kinds of source texts”— Jimmy Wales

Also referenced (named, not recommended)

ProductReferenced

Apple stock (AAPL)

Apple (inferred)

“people say if you could go back and tell yourself something when you were 20 what would you say and i would say buy apple stock”— Jimmy Wales
BookReferencedISBN verified

Getting Things Done

David Allen (inferred)

“i tried looking into getting things done which is a more contemporary kind of popular thing and thought it was quite interesting and good but i didn't buy into it”— Jimmy Wales
ProductReferenced

Netscape

Netscape Communications (inferred)

“that was when netscape went public and netscape on the first day of trading was worth something like 4.3 billion dollars”— Jimmy Wales
ProductReferenced

Tesla stock (TSLA)

Tesla (inferred)

“am i investing in tesla because i think elon musk is cool or am i actually overpaying for something that's extraordinarily highly valued”— Jimmy Wales
ProductReferenced

Zoom

Zoom Video Communications (inferred)

“but it's on zoom it's not really that great you know zoom is great it's just a business video conferencing tool”— Jimmy Wales