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Sources of the Self
Charles Taylor
“really influenced me a lot ... one of the most important books i read in life ... if you make it it's really worth it”
“charles taylor the canadian philosopher really influenced me a lot his book the sources of the self is i think one of the most important books i read in life”— Yuval Noah Harari
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Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
“it really had really really deep impact on me um because i think he really got it”
“the aldous huxley and brave new world yeah brave the world i it really had really really deep impact on me um because i think he really got it”— Yuval Noah Harari
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FINIS Duo Bone Conduction Headphones (with Dorsal Snorkel)
FINIS
“this is a really nice gadget i came across ... in some mysterious way it works better and you actually hear better than when you put it in your ears”
“it's connected to the dorsal snorkel that goes across the forehead so you don't have to rotate ... it's by finis duo finish finis”— Yuval Noah Harari
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
“i also great i also list it as a philosophy book ... it explores a lot of deep philosophical issues but in a much more fun way”
“i think hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy i also great i also list it as a philosophy book”— Yuval Noah Harari
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (audiobook narrated by Stephen Fry)
Stephen Fry (narrator) (inferred)
“narrated by stephen fry who's an incredible narrator”
“listened to hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy narrated by stephen fry who's an incredible narrator for the first time”— Tim Ferriss
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Black Mirror
Charlie Brooker (inferred)
“some of the episodes in black mirror are some of the best discussions that i've seen of certain dangerous tendencies in current technology”
“i think that black mirror at least some of the episodes in black mirror are some of the best discussions that i've seen of certain dangerous tendencies in current technology”— Yuval Noah Harari
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Her
Spike Jonze (inferred)
“i thought that her was a very ... very intelligent uh movie that avoided the usual traps”
“i thought that hair was a very intelligent and you know low key exploration of some of the potential of of ai”— Yuval Noah Harari
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Exhalation
Ted Chiang
“these are really really really incredible stories ... i think you'd enjoy it ... i love it”
“ted chang's work he has a compilation of short stories called exhalation ... these are really really really incredible stories”— Tim Ferriss
The guest's own work
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
“his popular books might ring a bell sapiens a brief history of humankind homo deus a brief history of tomorrow and 21 lessons for the 21st century”— Tim Ferriss
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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari
“sapiens a brief history of humankind homo deus a brief history of tomorrow and 21 lessons for the 21st century have sold 27 and a half million copies”— Tim Ferriss
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
“homo deus a brief history of tomorrow and 21 lessons for the 21st century have sold 27 and a half million copies roughly in 60 languages”— Tim Ferriss
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Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 1: The Birth of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari, David Vandermeulen, Daniel Casanave
“a brand new graphic novel series in collaboration with comic artists david van der meulen i think co-writer and daniel casanave the illustrator”— Tim Ferriss
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Tribe of Mentors
Tim Ferriss
“it's a paragraph from your wonderful profile i should say answers to questions in tribe of mentors which is my last book from a few years ago”— Tim Ferriss
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Sapiens (self-published as From Animals into Gods)
Yuval Noah Harari
“the original english version was titled from animals into gods and it sold it was a self-publication on amazon and it sold something like 2000 copies”— Yuval Noah Harari
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The 4-Hour Workweek
Tim Ferriss
“just go to four hourworkweek.com that's 4hourworkweek.com all spelled out and just drop in your email”— Tim Ferriss
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Zero to One
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
“i've seen in some books that i've quite enjoyed like zero to one by peter thiel and his his co-writer also came from lecture notes originally at stanford”— Tim Ferriss
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1984
George Orwell
“1984 like it's it's brother book 1984 it's a very simple book in this sense that 1984 describes a terrible terrible dystopia”— Yuval Noah Harari
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff
“i listened to say to shoshanna zubov's surveillance capitalism while swimming back and forth in my pool with the with the dolphin headset”— Yuval Noah Harari
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Arrival
Denis Villeneuve (inferred)
“one of his short stories was turned into i believe it was a rival about the protagonist who's this female linguist who decodes the graphic language”— Tim Ferriss
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Sandman
Neil Gaiman (inferred)
“i've collected everything from sandman in the u.s to dozens of different graphic novels in japan”— Tim Ferriss
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Island
Aldous Huxley
“hearkening back to your times reading aldous huxley's work and here we're talking about brave new world and not island right”— Tim Ferriss
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