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Lying
Sam Harris
“a great short book that had a huge impact on me ... which was just phenomenal”
“there is a great short book that had a huge impact on me on this topic called Lying by Sam Harris which was just phenomenal”— Naval Ravikant
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Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
“meditations by Marcus aurelus was absolutely life-changing for me”
“meditations by Marcus aurelus was absolutely life-changing for me because it's the Personal Diary of the emperor of Rome”— Naval Ravikant
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The Book of Life
Jiddu Krishnamurti
“probably the best book of his that I like is one called The Book of Life”
“probably the best book of his that I like is one called The Book of Life which is sort of excerpts from his various speeches and books”— Naval Ravikant
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Striking Thoughts
Bruce Lee
“Bruce Lee wrote some great philosophy and striking thoughts is a book that is a good summary of some of his philosophy”
“Bruce Lee wrote some great philosophy and striking thoughts is a book that is a good summary of some of his philosophy”— Naval Ravikant
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On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
“it's a very easy read it's not a difficult read and you can read the actual source and you can see the source of the Brilliance”
“how many have actually read the Origin of Species I mean you can get it for five bucks on Kindle and it's a very easy read”— Naval Ravikant
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Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
“it's a great book I highly recommend it”
“read this book called sedara but it's a beautiful parallel story to the making of the Buddha by Herman Hesh it's a great book I highly recommend it”— Naval Ravikant
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Poor Charlie's Almanack
Charlie Munger
“his speeches are collected in poor Charlie's Almanac and they're worth reading”
“his speeches are collected in poor Charlie's Almanac and they're worth reading”— Naval Ravikant
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Fooled by Randomness
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“his book Fooled by Randomness is awesome ... is I think the better of all of his books”
“his book Fooled by Randomness is awesome ... Fooled by Randomness is I think the better of all of his books”— Nick Kokonas
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The Problems of Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
“I happen to love the problems of philosophy ... it's written in plain language it's not hard to understand”
“I happen to love the problems of philosophy which berand Russell wrote sort of about Vicor Stein's ideas but before Vicor Stein published and it's written in plain language”— Nick Kokonas
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The Swerve
Stephen Greenblatt (inferred)
“read this great book called The swerve ... that reads like a murder mystery”
“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
MediaRecommended
MIT OpenCourseWare
MIT
“so many colleges now have taken that model and put great great great classes online”
“even MIT open courseware like so many colleges now have taken that model and put great great great classes online”— Nick Kokonas
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Chef's Table
Netflix
“Chef table on Netflix is great ... everybody should have the experience of observing Grant working”
“Chef table on Netflix is great chef table yeah great perfect so everybody should have the experience of observing Grant working”— Nick Kokonas
The guest's own work
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The Tim Ferriss Show (combo episodes)
Tim Ferriss (inferred)
“for the bios of all guests you can find that and more at tim. blog combo and now without further Ado please enjoy”— Tim Ferriss
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The 4-Hour Chef
Tim Ferriss
“you're also great help with the 4-Hour Chef so I wanted to right off the bat thank you for that”— Nick Kokonas
ProductBy the guest
Alinea
Alinea Group (Nick Kokonas)
“Nick is the co-owner and co-founder of the alinia group of restaurants which includes alenia one of only 13 restaurants in the US to earn the coveted Michelin three star”— Nick Kokonas
ProductBy the guest
Tock
Nick Kokonas (inferred)
“this is now we have you know hundreds of restaurants doing this on our software called Talk”— Nick Kokonas
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Alinea
Grant Achatz & Nick Kokonas (inferred)
“we sell 20 linia books a day on checkout with the booking process ... that is $400,000 in Revenue a year”— Nick Kokonas
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Life on the Line
Grant Achatz & Nick Kokonas
“I wrote a book of Grant and I wrote his Memoir together that we didn't a ghost writer we wrote it ourselves called life on the line”— Nick Kokonas
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The Aviary Cocktail Book
Nick Kokonas, Grant Achatz & Allen Hemberger (inferred)
“we spent the last year and a half doing this book did a Kickstarter ... you go to the yab book.com”— Nick Kokonas
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The Aviary
Alinea Group (Nick Kokonas)
“everybody should not only check out the Avary book but also if they have a chance go to the avier it is tremendous”— Nick Kokonas
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The Office (speakeasy below The Aviary)
Alinea Group (Nick Kokonas)
“our little speak easyy below the aier which is amazing if people have the opportunity they should check it out”— Nick Kokonas
Also referenced (named, not recommended)
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Kindle
Amazon (inferred)
“your Kindle or your iPad or whatever you use or even your paper book is in a stuck state”— Naval Ravikant
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iPad
Apple (inferred)
“your Kindle or your iPad or whatever you use or even your paper book is in a stuck state”— Naval Ravikant
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The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“that was the one that preceded Black Swan and I think black Swan's great it's fine but Fooled by Randomness is I think the better”— Nick Kokonas
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On the Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura)
Lucretius
“you read Lucius he had the atomic ... Titus Lucius Caris was a Roman poet and philosopher”— Nick Kokonas
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Rackspace
Rackspace
“we set it up on Rackspace it didn't work right I'd never done anything like that before”— Nick Kokonas
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The French Laundry Cookbook
Thomas Keller
“the natural inclination was to go to what he knew which was Artisan press which published The French Laundry book which is one of the bestselling highend cookbooks ever”— Nick Kokonas
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The Alinea Project
Allen Hemberger
“what I got was a 400 page beautifully beautifully Illustrated beautifully written book about a person's journey of learning and it was called the alinia project”— Nick Kokonas
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