Book · recommended on 3 episodes
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
M. Mitchell Waldrop
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M. Mitchell Waldrop
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This book by M. Mitchell Waldrop has come up 3 times on Tim Ferriss. 3 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Bill Gurley, Brad Feld, Tim Ferriss. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2020-07-27 and the most recent from 2023-07-20. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“for me it's complexity about Santa Fe Institute and a wonderful book called Mr China those are my two”— Bill Gurley
The guest here is Tim Ferriss: Author, angel investor, and podcaster (interviewed by Bill Gurley); creator of The 4-Hour Workweek and The Tim Ferriss Show, recounting 20+ years of life and business experiments. Tim Ferriss tells Bill Gurley how a bootstrapped startup, a burnout book, and angel bets built his creator empire.
“The other is Complexity by Mitchell Waldrip, if I'm getting that pronunciation right.”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Michael Mauboussin: Head of Consilient Research on Counterpoint Global at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, longtime Columbia Business School adjunct finance professor, and author of investing classics including Think Twice, The Success Equation, More Than You Know, and Expectations Investing. Michael Mauboussin breaks down how great investors decide: base rates, wisdom of crowds, decision biases, and complex adaptive systems.
“i read a book a book called complexity ... i remember laying on my couch ... reading that book and just sort of ... having my mind blown”— Brad Feld
The guest here is Brad Feld: Early-stage investor and entrepreneur since 1987, co-founder of Foundry Group and Techstars, and author of multiple books in the Startup Revolution series. He is also an OCD/depression mental-health advocate, art collector, and 50-state marathon runner based in Boulder, Colorado. VC Brad Feld tells Tim Ferriss how unplugging rituals, therapy, and openness about depression sustained him through entrepreneurial chaos.
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