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Neuromancer

William Gibson ISBN 9783608504880

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This book by William Gibson has come up 2 times on Tim Ferriss. 2 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Brad Feld, Eric Schmidt. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2020-07-27 and the most recent from 2021-10-27. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.

What it is

The first of William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy, Neuromancer is the classic cyberpunk novel. The winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer was the first fully-realized glimpse of humankind’s digital future, a shocking vision that has challenged our assumptions about our technology and ourselves, reinvented the way we speak and think, and forever altered the landscape of our imaginations. Henry Dorsett Case was the sharpest data-thief in the business, until vengeful former employees crippled his nervous system. But now a new and very mysterious employer recruits him for a last-chance run.

Every time it came up

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Eric Schmidt — The Promises and Perils of AI, the Future of Warfare, Profound Revolutions, and More

“Neuromancer is particularly good”
“well, Neuromancer is particularly good. If you look at Seveneves, a Neal Stephenson book, it's an extraordinary composition”— Eric Schmidt

The guest here is Eric Schmidt: Former Google CEO and chairman (2001-2011) who scaled the company from startup to global leader. Technologist, philanthropist, former chair of the National Security Commission on AI, and co-author with Henry Kissinger and Daniel Huttenlocher of The Age of AI and Our Human Future. Eric Schmidt explains why AI rivals the Renaissance, the perils of AGI and AI-driven warfare, and how to coexist with machine intelligence.

01:05:502021-10-27
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Brad Feld — The Art of Unplugging, Carving Your Own Path, and More! | The Tim Ferriss Show

“these two books are important books ... it will blow your mind”
“neuromancer was first it was written in 1984 and if you read it today you kind of go ah whatever but if you read it ... it will blow your mind”— 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.

01:41:062020-07-27