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So I will answer the question. My, the non-fiction book I recently read was actually Elon Musk, biography from Walter Isaacson.

I thought it was my duty as a business podcaster to actually read it.

It definitely drags on a bit at parts

Walter Isaacsons biography on Musk would interfere because it contains new information

Musk effectively hegs up six companies Tesla SpaceX the boring company Neuralink X and X AI that are really pushing humanity in a new direction from the shift to renewable energy to colonizing different planets.

He has an epic sense of himself Isaacson writes almost as if he's a comic book character wearing his underpants on the outside trying to save the world.

Building mass market electric cars was inevitable, he said it would have happened without me, but becoming a space faring civilization is not inevitable. This flight was a great example of how progress requires human agency.

He loves being in fight or flight mode. He loves having his back against the wall and sometimes he'll just manufacture chaos in order to have that feeling.

Isaacson said that his favorite historical character is Napoleon.

Elon Musk hits book stores not the man the book Walter Isaacson's biography of the billionaire will be released tomorrow.

And if you're in a book club this fall, I would bet it will be on your reading list. The book has already created so much news and the weeks leading up to its reliefs.

It's been a master class in generating buzz not it's not I've been here before it's like this book is going to be freaking juicy.

I also did see the discourse start yesterday of because I saw the the cover was released too. And it's Elon Musk trying to do like the famous Steve Jobs pose. Like he has his hands under his chin like that and everyone's saying like listen dude, you're not Steve Jobs.

And also there were some discourse about like his full head of hair too and saying like oh my so there's there's discourse around all parts of this book.

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I know we are both pretty hype for Walter Isaacson's biography of Elon Musk that hits bookstores next week...but excerpts from the book have already been leaking and they are juicier than a George Apache.

According to an excerpt of the book obtained by CNN last year, Elon Musk secretly told engineers to shut off Starlink satellite communications near the Crimean coast to foil a Ukraine sneak attack on a Russian naval fleet.

Musk was spooked by the prospect of Russia retaliating with nuclear weapons, telling Isaacson Starlink was not meant to be involved in wars.

But again like...that's the alarming part is that it hinge on his opinion of the situation...and he's literally holding sway over what does and doesn't happen in this Ukrainian war.

and then the Elon Musk biography by Walter Isaacson, so I guess that's pretty basic like oh you're a you're a bro and you're looking forward to all these these books about business, but I think they'll be really interesting, the Walter Isaacson book about Steve Jobs, I found really really good and kind of was my first introduction to business.

So many recommendations like Great Gatsby, Moby Dick, Catcher in the Rye.

You have the outsiders, great Gatsby, the notebook, water for elephants of those four.

So there are a lot of critics saying we should really shorten this period

So he wasn't really incentivized to write another great Gatsby from 1940 to 2021 because that dude was in his grave

But The Great Gatsby didn't enter the public domain until 2021

nano rhyme is shorthand for National Novel Writing Month an organization that challenges wannabe writers to write 50,000 words of a novel about the length of The Great Gatsby in the month of November

how incredible would it be to board a plane at JFK throw on Dune and then land in London before the movies over

So probably yeah, like foundation or dune some of those like og og science fiction books Uh, just really I don't know make me romantic about like the ability to tell stories

Dune is also as good as you can ever imagine. I resisted that for a long time as a science fiction fan, but it is as if you can get through the first 100 pages it truly changes your life. So I love that.

Thinking fast and slow brought these ideas to the mainstream and became a mega best seller Neil I believe I saw it on your bookcase the last time I was over

Coniman and his longtime collaborator almost versky created a bunch of these heuristics which show which are basically rules of thumb that show how humans do not behave rationally

You learned a lot from thinking fast and slow.

For any of you who have read Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarrow or A Court of Rose and Thorns by Sarah J Maas, you know exactly what I'm talking about.

Well, I just read a court of Rose and Thorns, which is part of the romantic trend They've been talking about and I think it's gonna make the next list actually

Warner Bros. Discovery, the film and TV giant whose IP includes DC Comics, Friends, Harry Potter, and everything HBO.

I'm going to watch some Harry Potter to brush up, you know.

I'm going to watch some Harry Potter to brush up, you know.

Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, everything that you mentioned.

I caught a little of Michael Lewis on 60 minutes last night and he looked like a dude who knew he was about to sell a lot of Books he looked like a dude who's a lot about to sell a lot of books.

But he's also been getting a fair amount of heat on social media for he keeps portraying SPF and kind of this Sympathetic light everyone's like why are you sympathizing with this guy?

He's not the victim here so various curious to see what the entire book looks like because the Excurbs have been a little too lenient a lot of people are saying for SPF

He then went on to found his own venture firm, Narya. He named it after another object from the Lord of the Rings book which just shows how much he really was kind of this Peter Thiel stan.

For most of you listening to this Andrew is a significant sword in the Lord of the Rings series.

And both of those you can see his passion for Lord of the Rings because both Palantir and Andrew L have Lord of the Rings

Dixon just came out with a book called Read, Write, Own, building the next era of the Internet.

While previous eras of the Internet let people like us publish in post online, Read, Write, Own explores how blockchains can shift ownership from centralized platforms to decentralized applications that can actually put users in charge.

Dixon just came out with a book called Read Write Own, building the next era of the internet.

While previous eras of the internet let people like us publish and post online, Read Write Own explores how blockchains can shift ownership from centralized platforms to decentralized applications that can actually put users in charge.

It's the robber caro. It's The Power Broker

Is that even possible to do?

Well, I would say if you've been to New York City and you look at a bridge or you look at a highway or you look at a particular park, chances are it was built by this one guy, Robert Moses who was his urban planner and public official in New York City in the 20th century.

And this book highlighted his rise to power and also some of the seedier things, some of the more controversial things he did to get those projects through like pushing a highway through a minority neighborhood.

But and it's just a very interesting exploration of power as Caro does it but he does it in more than 1,000 pages in very meticulous detail.

Not only do I have to read a thousand page book, now you're telling me I gotta watch a documentary about the editing process?

Like she's Cody from serves up Streisand's autobiography follows on the heels of books from celebs like Viala Davis Jeanette Mercurdy, Matthew Perry, Pamela Anderson, Jada Pinkett Smith, Britney Spears and of course Prince Harry

According to his 2022 memoir, He spent at least seven million dollars on treatment and had 65 stints in detox beginning at the age of 26.

So many recommendations like Great Gatsby, Moby Dick, Catcher in the Rye.

politicians would justify banning books that used it like Catcher in the Rye from schools

For any of you who have read Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarrow or A Court of Rose and Thorns by Sarah J Maas, you know exactly what I'm talking about.

I've read the Fourth Wing series and I first saw it on TikTok.

I mean, I didn't read them, but you read the Fourth Wing. But it does seem like it gets pretty steamy.

Hair and makeup is not too embarrassed to read The Fourth Wing in public.

I just finished reading The Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros, which is this spicy dragon fantasy book. It's big on spicy. How like literally yeah, romance. There's yeah, it's a little more adult.

Definitely dot on wrote this book called The Firm about McKinsey and said McKinsey is maybe the single greatest legitimizer of mass layoffs of anyone anywhere at any time in modern history so there's just this hefty dose of irony that they themselves refuse to conduct any layoffs at their admittedly very bloated company right now.

More authors have sued OpenAI for copyright infringement including the likes of John Grisham, George R.R. Martin and Jodi Picoult.

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen It's probably one of my favorite books of all time

And then finally these big American novels I really like like Freedom and The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen.

Britney's The Woman in Me is the most recent one to come out and sold 1.1 million copies in its first week on sale in the U.S. Which means she joins Mary Trump, Prince Harry, and Barack and Michelle Obama as the only authors to hit that 1 million Books in sales that quickly

Yeah, so Britney Spears releases this this memoir all of a sudden. Wow, her music streams are up 20 percent over the over the course of that week and that happened to Mariah Carey when she released her Her memoir as well.

If anyone's looking for a book to read, Britney Spears's memoir is coming out tomorrow. It's called 'The Woman in Me' and it's already reached number one on the Amazon bestsellers list thanks to pre-orders.

It is not surprising to see this is getting a ton of buzz. The book offers a look into some of the most private details of Britney's life, including her rise from child star to international icon, her marriage to Kevin Federline, and her 14-year conservatorship.

I won't lie, I'm Gen Z, I kind of missed the peak Britney era, so maybe I'll pick it up to get up to speed because I just, I missed Britney.

So I people please write in and tell me some some good Christmas gifts ideas because the Catan the Catan cookbook

Inside lovers of katon can find 77 recipes inspired by the game including dishes like forest dwellers dip tavern ale pie and fireside banana boats.

It's not just a gimmick or a gag gift by any means.

There's a mage flood homemade fudge bricks Rick smash burger chicken under a brick.

I like that one is there a punny I I mean I take my my food a little seriously so I don't know if I would do this.

She even found time to write a book called In This Economy that Neil and I both read.

It's fantastic so if you leave today's episode wanting to dive deeper into any of the concepts you hear, definitely go check that out.

So in your book you argue that vibes play a big role in running the economy.

And that was fun to talk about that because she does make banana bread.

Her book is called In This Economy, so everyone go read it. It was delightful.