Book · recommended on 2 episodes
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
David Eagleman
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David Eagleman
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This book by David Eagleman has come up 2 times on Tim Ferriss. One of those mentions was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Matt Mullenweg, Tim Ferriss. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2022-03-14 and the most recent from 2023-05-27. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“Great book, by the way, highly recommend.”— Tim Ferriss
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.
“david eagleman ... four details of after lives and each one starts basically at the moment of death ... they're hilarious and it's a great bedtime read”— Matt Mullenweg
The guest here is Matt Mullenweg: Co-founder of the open-source publishing platform WordPress and founder/CEO of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Tumblr, and Pocket Casts. A longtime friend of Tim, distributed-work advocate, and avid photographer. Tim Ferriss and Matt Mullenweg record from a tent on an Antarctic glacier, sharing personal reflections on grief, mortality, fear, and meaning.
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