David Senra — How Extreme Winners Think and Win: Lessons from 400+ of History’s Greatest Founders

Hardcore History

Dan Carlin

“you are in a way what Dan Carlin did with Hardcore History, like you do for business. And Hardcore History is my favorite podcast of all time.”— Tim Ferriss

Wrath of the Khans

Dan Carlin (inferred)

“if you want to just listen to the great I mean Wrath of the Khans, Blueprint for Armageddon. Wrath of Khans I think is the best podcast series ever created in my opinion.”— David Senra

Blueprint for Armageddon

Dan Carlin (inferred)

“if you want to just listen to the great I mean Wrath of the Khans, Blueprint for Armageddon. Wrath of Khans I think is the best podcast series ever created.”— David Senra

Extreme Ownership

Jocko Willink

“He yells at me. You can just get I'm like extreme ownership still highly highly highly recommend to everyone.”— Tim Ferriss

Insisting on the Impossible

Victor McElheny (inferred)

“So I read this biography of Edwin Land. I thought it was incredible. It's called Insisting on the Impossible. It's the most comprehensive biography of him.”— David Senra

Land's Polaroid

Peter Wensberg (inferred)

“There is a book, I think it's called Land's Polaroid. That's the one I'd read because it's only 250 pages and it's written by a guy that worked for and with Edwin Land for like 20 years.”— David Senra

Spotify

Spotify (inferred)

“the massive success... one of the best apps ever created... think about the way you feel when you get done using Spotify. you feel great.”— David Senra

Lessons of History

Will and Ariel Durant

“Me and you both love Will and Ariel Durant, right? Read the history of human civilization. read their 100page book, Lessons of History.”— David Senra

Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist

Roger Lowenstein (inferred)

“So if I read Making American Capitalist, right? Excellent book. I think that's actually the best biography.”— David Senra

Direct from Dell (Michael Dell autobiography)

Michael Dell (inferred)

“Michael does autobiography which he narrates by the way the audible is excellent. I listened to it three times before I read it to do the episode on it.”— David Senra

John D.: The Founding Father of the Rockefellers

David Freeman Hawke

“It's called John D. The Founding Fathers of Rockefellers by David Freeman Hawke. Better writer than a Titan, I guess. Yes. 250 page instead of 800, but all about what you really want to know.”— David Senra

The Score Takes Care of Itself

Bill Walsh

“the book is great. Bill Walsh's The Score Takes Care of Itself. I read it for the first time five, six years ago. love the book.”— David Senra

Defiant Ones (documentary on Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine)

HBO (inferred)

“Such a good series. I watch it. Oh my god, it is so well done. If anyone hasn't seen Defiant Ones, go watch it.”— David Senra

Tetragrammaton (Rick Rubin podcast episode with Jimmy Iovine)

Rick Rubin

“the episode he did with Jimmy I think it came out in 2023 I think it was like single best podcast I listen to all year”— David Senra

The Psychology of Money

Morgan Housel

“Psychology of money. Great book. Won't stop selling. I know man. Got lightning in a bottle in that one. Earned it.”— Tim Ferriss

Vagabonding

Rolf Potts

“if anybody wants a great book on the art of long-term world travel, if that's of interest, Vagabonding by Rolf Potts.”— Tim Ferriss

How to Make a Few Billion Dollars

Brad Jacobs (inferred)

“He is by far the most energetic person I have ever been around. And he wrote this book called How to Make a Few Billion Dollars.”— David Senra

Kindle

Amazon (inferred)

“I use Kindle not for the convenience of the device, although that is convenient. Not because I can listen on Audible or actually do it through the Kindle app”— Tim Ferriss

Readwise

Readwise (inferred)

“then exporting or using something like Readwise in addition to synthesizing my highlights. And I believe you also use Readwise quite a bit.”— Tim Ferriss

Against the Odds (James Dyson autobiography)

James Dyson

“There's actually an older idea here that I just went through when I reread James Dyson's autobiography. Both of them actually, but the first autobiography I read like five times.”— David Senra

Scientific Advertising

Claude Hopkins

“there's this guy named Claude Hopkins. I am always interested. You are I read scientific advertising. Yes. In the very beginning.”— David Senra

Deep Tech

Pablo Hullman (inferred)

“I just did this with a book I finished yesterday called Deep Tech by Pablo Hullman where I'm creating an index in the front.”— Tim Ferriss

Letters from a Stoic (Moral Letters to Lucilius)

Seneca the Younger

“Sometimes it's just fun to see how I change over time with like the moral letters to Lucilius by Seneca the Younger.”— Tim Ferriss

Evernote

Evernote (inferred)

“I used to put it all into Evernote. I still sometimes do that cuz I've been using it forever and I have thousands of them.”— Tim Ferriss

Scannable

Evernote (inferred)

“I use Scannable to get it into Evernote. But the point is I have a way to then OCR it so I can search it.”— Tim Ferriss

Musashi

Eiji Yoshikawa (inferred)

“with a book we did Musashi I think it was episode 100 which was like four and a half five hours long going through this historical novel about the most famous swordsman in Japanese history.”— Tim Ferriss

Audible

Amazon (inferred)

“Remember Audible scaled massively. People don't realize how big businesses can get on the back of podcast and how many have. Audible was on every it was Dan Carlin had one ad and it was on Audible.”— David Senra

Blinkist

Blinkist (inferred)

“there was this company called Blinkist which was kind of like a summary 10-minute summary app for business books, non-fiction books.”— David Senra

The Steve Jobs Playboy Interview (1985)

Playboy (inferred)

“So you can go back and read this this Playboy interview. It's just for the interview. not anything else of Steve Jobs when he's 25 26”— David Senra

Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson

“Jobs knows he's dying when he's working with Isaac on the biography... Edwin Land appears in Isaacson's biography of Jobs like six times.”— David Senra

Am I Being Too Subtle? (Sam Zell autobiography)

Sam Zell

“So Sam Zell in his autobiography, he's like, Yeah, I read this book by William Zeckendorf and it changed my life because there's one idea in this book.”— David Senra

The Autobiography of William Zeckendorf

William Zeckendorf

“I read this book by William Zeckendorf and it changed my life because there's one idea in this book. That's what Charlie Munger said. There's ideas worth billions in a $30 history book.”— David Senra

The Power Broker

Robert Caro

“I'm writing about how humans accumulate and then wield power. And I did it first on a local level in New York with Robert Moses.”— David Senra

The Years of Lyndon Johnson

Robert Caro

“And now I'm showing what happens on a national level. And guess what? LBJ would sacrifice everything to get what he wanted.”— David Senra

Losing My Virginity

Richard Branson

“Still have my early copies and my notes from those books with losing my virginity, Richard Branson, early Yvon Chouinard”— Tim Ferriss

Let My People Go Surfing

Yvon Chouinard

“early Yvon Chouinard, you know, I think it's let my people go surfing, etc. Still have all those books.”— Tim Ferriss

Dune

Frank Herbert (inferred)

“this is now cliched because it's been made into a popular movie, but Dune or Stranger in a Strange Land, like you can actually pull a lot from just straight up fiction.”— Tim Ferriss

Stranger in a Strange Land

Robert A. Heinlein (inferred)

“Dune or Stranger in a Strange Land, like you can actually pull a lot from just straight up fiction.”— Tim Ferriss

Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist

Roger Lowenstein (inferred)

“I remember reading, I think it was the making of an American capitalist way back in the day. And the story that stuck out”— Tim Ferriss

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

Alice Schroeder (inferred)

“You read Snowball after his wife leaves him and he says the biggest mistake if I could go back and live life again.”— David Senra

The Red Bull book (Dietrich Mateschitz biography)

“we've translated the Red Bull book from German which is awesome by the way. I listen to that. I appreciate that.”— David Senra

Source Code: My Beginnings

Bill Gates

“this week I read Source Code which is Bill Gates autobiography about the first 20 years of his life, his version.”— David Senra

Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire

James Wallace and Jim Erickson (inferred)

“I reread Hard Drive, Overdrive, which is also written by the same guys that wrote Hard Drive. There is a vast difference between what's in source code and what is in hard drive.”— David Senra

Idea Man (Paul Allen autobiography)

Paul Allen (inferred)

“I pulled all my highlights and notes for Paul Allen's description of Bill Gates and Paul Allen's autobiography.”— David Senra

Inside Bill's Brain (Netflix documentary on Bill Gates)

Netflix (inferred)

“watch the documentary on Netflix about him. He's like I'm a I was hardcore. That was my advantage.”— David Senra

Made in America (Sam Walton autobiography)

Sam Walton (inferred)

“Sam Walton's one of my favorite entrepreneurs... when you study Sam, he's like obviously smart, but he was just like he didn't really know what he was going to do.”— David Senra

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

Ron Chernow

“Everybody has read Titan by Chernow. In the bibliography of that there's a better the best Rockefeller biography I've ever read”— David Senra

Invest Like the Best (podcast)

Patrick O'Shaughnessy

“like you and Andrew are kind of like the male Oprah... Invest like the best. Yeah, you did an excellent episode with him for when you hit your 10 year anniversary.”— David Senra

The Mamba Mentality / Kobe Bryant biography (Roland Lazenby)

Roland Lazenby

“I read the 600page biography on him by Roland Lazenby and the middle school guidance counselor is like he wrote down what are you going to do?”— David Senra