Book · recommended on 4 episodes
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand ISBN 9780394415765
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Ayn Rand ISBN 9780394415765
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This book by Ayn Rand has come up 4 times across 2 different shows: Lex Fridman, Tim Ferriss. 4 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Andrew Rosener, Chip Wilson, George Hotz, Yaron Brook. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2020-10-22 and the most recent from 2023-12-21. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
The year 2005 marks Ayn Rand's Centennial Year.The astounding story of a man that said that he would stop the motor of the world-and did. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged is unlike any other book you have ever read.“A writer of great power. She has a subtle and ingenious mind and the capacity of writing brilliantly, beautifully, bitterly.”-The New York Times
“So once you've read Atlas Shrugged, which I'll admit I've not read, but — Andrew Rosener: Oh, must.”— Andrew Rosener
The guest here is Andrew Rosener: Founder and CEO of Media Options, one of the world's top domain name brokers; host of the DomainSherpa podcast and early Web3/Bitcoin investor. Began his career as a frozen seafood salesman before building a domain brokerage that has done hundreds of millions in sales. Domain mogul Andrew Rosener on going from frozen-scallop arbitrage to brokering eight-figure .com domains, leasing as VC, and optimizing life for freedom.
“atlas shrugged was massive for me you know to read that again when i was 18 i mean i know nothing about u.s politics”— Chip Wilson
The guest here is Chip Wilson: Serial entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded Lululemon Athletica in 1998 after building and selling Westbeach Snowboarding. He helped pioneer the athleisure category and now invests across apparel, real estate, and private equity while funding research to cure FSHD muscular dystrophy. Lululemon founder Chip Wilson on building brands, future-spotting trends, goal setting, the Landmark-based culture he created, and cancel culture.
“so I would recommend everybody read Fountain Head and Atlas Shrugged”— Yaron Brook
The guest here is Yaron Brook: Chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute, host of The Yaron Brook Show, and one of the world's best-known objectivist thinkers. He co-authored Free Market Revolution and Equal Is Unfair. Objectivist philosopher Yaron Brook makes the full case for Ayn Rand's reason, rational selfishness, and unbridled capitalism.
“the second book which is pornography it's called atlas shrugged it is a great book for a kind of framework of human relations”— George Hotz
The guest here is George Hotz: Hacker known as geohot, famous for jailbreaking the iPhone and PlayStation 3. Founder of comma ai, which sells the $1,000 comma two device and open-source openpilot software for semi-autonomous driving. George Hotz riffs on hacking the simulation, crypto, immortality, and why end-to-end neural nets beat Tesla's task-by-task approach to self-driving.
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