Book · recommended on 1 episode
Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away
Annie Duke
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Annie Duke
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This book by Annie Duke came up once on Tim Ferriss in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Ev Williams. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“There's a great book by the way by Andy Duke called quit which I highly recommend. Um and it's actually was part of the reason a couple years ago I stepped down from Medium”— Ev Williams
The guest here is Ev Williams: Co-founder of Blogger, Twitter, Medium, and his current company Mosy; partner at Obvious Ventures. Started with a 1994 VHS tape teaching people how to use the internet. Ev Williams on strategic quitting, why greatness can't be planned, and building Mosy as an actual social network.
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