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Born Standing Up
Steve Martin (inferred)
“that book was very influential to me”
“because he wrote his memoir Born Standing Up which was a professional memoir the whole point of the book”— Cal Newport
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Draft No. 4
John McPhee (inferred)
“Draft No. 4 makes for a really fun read”
“there's a book called Draft No. 4 by John McPhee who's a staff writer at the New Yorker and just a behemoth of a craftsman”— Tim Ferriss
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Dave Barry collections
Dave Barry (inferred)
“his collections are fantastic”
“just read his collections he has his collections are fantastic his whole thing was to set up and then he would come in with the absurd punch”— Cal Newport
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A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson (inferred)
“is just an outstanding outstanding book also very very good with timing”
“Bill Bryson and for people who want a place to start, A Walk in the Woods which is rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail”— Tim Ferriss
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The Scientists
John Gribbin (inferred)
“his magisterial Tome”
“perhaps you could speak to John Gribbin's book The Scientists you mentioned a bunch of scientists earlier in this conversation”— Tim Ferriss
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Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson (inferred)
“my favorite is probably Cryptonomicon”
“my favorite is probably Cryptonomicon which I think is a rare choice as a favorite but personally well not in my world computer scientists love Cryptonomicon”— Tim Ferriss
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Why I'm a Bad Correspondent
Neal Stephenson (inferred)
“he wrote that great essay... so good so good it's so good”
“you know Neil Stevenson he wrote that great essay years ago Why I'm a Bad Correspondent yeah so good so good it's so good”— Cal Newport
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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Jenny Odell (inferred)
“that's a phenomenal book I think is very smart very original”
“the artist and writer Jenny Odell published a book titled How to Do Nothing subtitle Resisting the Attention Economy”— Cal Newport
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Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving
Celeste Headlee (inferred)
“Celeste Headlee's book is great I interviewed her for the New Yorker”
“followed by Celeste Headlee, do nothing subtitle how to break away from overworking overdoing and underliving”— Cal Newport
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Laziness Does Not Exist
Devon Price (inferred)
“Price's book is great I blurbed that book”
“Devon Price's Laziness Does Not Exist ... Price's book is great I blurbed that book”— Cal Newport
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4,000 Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Oliver Burkeman (inferred)
“I blurbed that book because it's great”
“Oliver Burkeman's new book ... 4,000 weeks time management for Mortals ... I blurbed that book because it's great”— Cal Newport
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All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age
Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly (inferred)
“there's this great book called All Things Shining ... gets right at this”
“there's this great book called All Things Shining and it was written by a philosopher from Harvard and a philosopher from Berkeley”— Cal Newport
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The Case for God
Karen Armstrong (inferred)
“I've been just trying to get people to read her because I think that's a really cool book”
“the author Karen Armstrong makes this argument very well in her book The Case for God ... I've been just trying to get people to read her”— Cal Newport
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Scrivener
Literature & Latte (inferred)
“I have found Scrivener just to be a lifesaver ... best composition mode of any tool out there”
“I have found Scrivener just to be a lifesaver in that department ... I've used Scrivener for many many years”— Tim Ferriss
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Trello
Atlassian (inferred)
“Trello has been my tool of choice ... I like that the virtual cards and all these tools can hold a lot of information”
“Trello has been my tool of choice recently for organizing tasks and the way I actually use it is I do a different board”— Cal Newport
The guest's own work
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The 4-Hour Workweek
Tim Ferriss (inferred)
“my career at least in any credible sense didn't start with that and really it was the 4-Hour Workweek that put me on any map”— Tim Ferriss
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How to Win at College
Cal Newport (inferred)
“I had pitched it as Conquer College and the head of the agency said you can't have the hard Ks right after each other so we changed it to How to Win at College”— Cal Newport
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How to Become a Straight-A Student
Cal Newport (inferred)
“this was How to Become a Straight A Student this ended up becoming probably the biggest of my student books”— Cal Newport
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The 4-Hour Body
Tim Ferriss (inferred)
“that is why for instance in the 4-Hour Body or other books, Tools of Titans, certain I have written books in a modular way”— Tim Ferriss
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Tools of Titans
Tim Ferriss (inferred)
“that is why for instance in the 4-Hour Body or other books, Tools of Titans, certain I have written books in a modular way”— Tim Ferriss
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Deep Work
Cal Newport (inferred)
“I do these other things, deep work I think talks about this for sure but then also we talk a lot on my blog”— Cal Newport
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Digital Minimalism
Cal Newport (inferred)
“burkeman comes at it from like a humanist way I kind of come at it from a humanist way too in Digital Minimalism it's about improving your life”— Cal Newport
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A World Without Email
Cal Newport (inferred)
“links to everything all the resources to all of Cal's books including Deep Work, Digital Minimalism and his latest A World Without Email”— Tim Ferriss
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Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
Jerry Seinfeld (inferred)
“while I was recovering I was watching Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee and one of my favorite episodes was with Steve Martin”— Tim Ferriss
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Bel Canto
Ann Patchett (inferred)
“I think maybe Ann Patchett it's like very well respected I might have that wrong but Bel Canto had come out around this time”— Tim Ferriss
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Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
James Gleick (inferred)
“I wrote of a Richard Feynman I'd read like the James Gleick biography Genius I was a fan of John von Neumann of Einstein”— Cal Newport
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Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson (inferred)
“if you've heard the term metaverse probably came from his novel Snow Crash, has written many novels”— Tim Ferriss
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Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
Anne Helen Petersen (inferred)
“you have Anne Helen Petersen's Can't Even how Millennials became the burnout generation maybe a little less inspiring sounding”— Tim Ferriss
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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen Covey (inferred)
“this comes right out of Stephen Covey sharpening the saw seven habits here are the different roles in my life”— Cal Newport
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Succession
HBO (inferred)
“you're watching Succession on HBO and you're like all of my moral intuitions are telling me that these are bad people”— Cal Newport
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Uni-ball Signo 0.5mm rollerball pen
Uni-ball (inferred)
“it's me notebook a uniball micro you know 0.5 millimeter roller pin and notes in a notebook”— Cal Newport
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Waking Up
Sam Harris (inferred)
“I know Sam well and have spent a lot of time around Sam I use his waking up app I've read many of his books”— Tim Ferriss
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