No Stupid Questions

you get what you get and you don't get upset

It had a forest green cover with a Picasso painting of a woman sleeping. It was called why some must sleep and others must watch.

The book was written by the Stanford sleep professor and he tells the story of someone who woke up in the middle of the night at like two or something he had gone to bed at 10 as usual.

He wakes up at two and he's like, huh? That's weird. And he walks over to his writing desk and he's like, well, I'll just do a little writing and reading and surely I'll fall asleep soon.

But he doesn't he just starts his day too. He's like, but surely I'll be exhausted tonight.

He more or less just lives a four hour night existence for the rest of his life.

Many people think of this now as the black swan effect after Nassim Taleb's book of that name.

Rather, it's from the allegorical poem Piers Plowman written by English poet William Langland about a decade before Chaucer wrote the Canterbury Tales.

Type A Behavior and Your Heart

You know, there's a sociologist named Chris Rojek. He's at the City University of London and he wrote about celebrity for the Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Consumption and Consumer Studies.

Maybe the snob in you would feel better reading meditations or reading the essays of Michel de Montaigne than reading Dale Carnegie.

So I did come across this book I'm not sure if you're familiar with it but I'd like to tell you about it a little bit maybe this would prove useful for Yvonne as well it's written by two authors one of whom I know you know Barry Schwartz who's a psychologist at Swarthmore and Kenneth Sharp who is a political scientist at Swarthmore and it's called Practical Wisdom

and they make this argument that I think would resonate with a lot of people which is that everyone wants to succeed on some level but we also want to do the right thing again at some level and sometimes the balancing the two can be hard and the way to balance they argue is by exercising wisdom Practical Wisdom there are six key qualities that they offer of how a wise person can or should behave

John Wooden the UCLA basketball coach I remember reading it in his book. They all said some version of the true test of a person's character is what you do when no one is watching.

His final book examines how universities censor their teaching.

The title of the book was originally in defense of free speech, the university is censor. But was changed to a book too risky to publish free speech in universities.

After his publisher Emerald Press canceled its publication for fear of quote, the potential for serious harm to Emerald's reputation and the possibility of legal action.

He wrote a wonderful book years ago called Triumph of the City and the subtitle is something like how our greatest invention makes us happier, richer, smarter, greener and something else.

I'm Gabrielle Hamilton, and I am the chef and owner of Prune Restaurant in New York City and a columnist for The New York Times.

and of course I read Blood Buns and Butter,

You've titled your book, Blood Buns and Butter, The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef.

There's a wonderful biography of Salk by a writer named Charlotte DeCrose Jacobs.

named Adene Steinsaltz who had compiled the modern version of The Talmud that many people study

And so he was asked this what seemed to me impossibly difficult question like this is going to take months to answer and he just kind of smiled and he said yes I would say that Judaism gave the world the idea of a happy ending to every story.

So I did read cover to cover this book by Judd Apatow, the director. It's called Sick in the Head, and it's very autobiographical. It's basically how he was obsessed with comedy from a very young age.

So Ethan Malick is probably the number one influencer in how to use generative AI to your advantage. He has this book called Cointelligence. I was, you know, one of the people to like review and endorse it.

And he said, but you know, that would be kind of like thanking your word processor.

It proceeded to take me through an entire simulation that, while not perfect, did 80% of what it took our team months to do.