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The Swerve
Stephen Greenblatt ISBN 9780393064476
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Stephen Greenblatt ISBN 9780393064476
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This book by Stephen Greenblatt has come up 2 times across 2 different shows: Lex Fridman, Tim Ferriss. 2 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Glenn Loury, Nick Kokonas. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2022-05-14 and the most recent from 2024-05-18. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it. Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied.
“read this great book called The swerve which is about this monk ages ago that sort of found that book and then rewrote it”— Nick Kokonas
The guest here is Naval Ravikant and Nick Kokonas: Two featured guests in this anniversary compilation. Naval Ravikant: co-founder of AngelList and Airchat, angel investor, host of the Naval podcast. Nick Kokonas: former derivatives/options trader, co-owner and co-founder of the Alinea Group of restaurants (including three-Michelin-star Alinea) and founder of the Tock booking software. Tim Ferriss 10-year anniversary super combo: Naval Ravikant on honesty, habits, and happiness, plus Nick Kokonas on asymmetric risk and reinventing restaurants.
“i read this wonderful book called the swerve it's about lucretius it's about the nature of things which is this great classical work”— Glenn Loury
The guest here is Glenn Loury: Professor of economics and social sciences at Brown University, MIT-trained economist, and host of 'The Glenn Show.' A prominent black conservative voice on race, inequality, and identity politics. Economist Glenn Loury argues racial disparities stem more from culture and behavior than systemic racism, and that black America must build strength rather than lean on affirmative action.
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