Book · recommended on 3 episodes
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez ISBN 014103243X
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Gabriel García Márquez ISBN 014103243X
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This book by Gabriel García Márquez 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: Cal Fussman, Claire Hughes Johnson, David Eagleman. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2023-05-27 and the most recent from 2024-06-04. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
One of the twentieth century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize-winning career. The novel tells the story of the Buendia family, set against the background of the evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town, the mythical town of Macondo.
“I gave him Gabrielle Garcia marquez's 100 Years of Solitude for him to know okay if you're going to tell somebody you want to write a great book read this and know what a great book is”— Cal Fussman
The guest here is Dr. Jane Goodall and Cal Fussman: Dr. Jane Goodall is the English primatologist and anthropologist considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees and founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and the Roots & Shoots program. Cal Fussman is a New York Times bestselling author, writer-at-large at Esquire (the 'What I've Learned' column), international speaker, and host of the Big Questions with Cal Fussman podcast. A 10th-anniversary super-combo: Jane Goodall on chimpanzees and hope, plus Cal Fussman on a lifetime mastering the art of the interview.
“If you said to me, what's the other To the Lighthouse, I would say One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez, and my introduction to magical realism.”— Claire Hughes Johnson
The guest here is Claire Hughes Johnson: Former COO of Stripe (and prior Google executive); author of Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building. Stripe's former COO Claire Hughes Johnson on radical ownership, saying hard truths, renegotiating commitments, and building self-awareness as a leader.
“A Hundred Years of Solitude, if someone hasn't read that, Borges' Labyrinths, Toni Morrison's Beloved, essentially anything by Faulkner”— David Eagleman
The guest here is David Eagleman: Neuroscientist, Stanford professor, New York Times bestselling author (Sum, Incognito, Livewired), TED speaker, and founder of the neurotech company Neosensory. Neuroscientist David Eagleman explains sensory augmentation, why we dream, consciousness, memory, and his Lazy Susan method for managing many projects.
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