The Daily Stoic

I remember when I was in high school my dad was a philosophy major in college and he had all his old philosophy books lying around and I started reading them and I didn't understand them but I loved the idea of being a high school kid who read philosophy so I would walk around with Nietzsche or or hide a girl or something in my bag and like or Kierkegaard and I had being in nothingness and I would like leave through it and I didn't understand a word I was saying or reading but I love the idea of being the kind of person who did that and I think that's a lot of what I and Rand appeals to is like this is a big idea I'm filling your head with big ideas and you get so swelled up with pride because you understand them and they and they're like yes of course I am powerful I am I can do this I'm on my own I am an adult now and then when you are 23 and you read it again hopefully you say like well this is absurd like the world can't function this way this is ridiculous

the book I read is called *The Extended Mind*

her point is that a lot of our thinking comes from internal stuff with our body and then our bodies interactions with our environment and like the other people around us and so there are all these...

if you read say one of the most famous Zen books like Zen mind beginners mind

Cal Newport, his new book, A World Without Email Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload is great, very timely, like all Cal's books give me a ton to chew on.

His time blocking calendar is great as I talked about in this new book is, he said four years in the making.

Read his book, Digital Minimalism. Definitely read Deep Work. Definitely read So Good They Can't Ignore You.

This is kind of my definitive word on the world of work.

David's other book, Triangle the Fire that changed America is an award winner and he's a great writer

I was just interviewing this guy who wrote a really good book called The Notebook. But this version of a notebook, like this form is like the 1400, something like that.

I would argue that all of fortune 500 marketing is losing right now because they put production value on a pedestal.

Much to what I was talking about with Day Trading Attention, especially for the people that are listening, that are in professional marketing, not creators or whatever, they disrespect not only because it's short, they disrespect production value.

I'm very happy you published this in a science... I don't even know the name of a single science...

I think one thing I'm excited about with Day Trading Attention is I hope people realize almost everyone who's listening here, who's ambitious and going at this businesses or humans are going to realize after they read this, oh shit, why am I not on Facebook?

The things we own, as the writer Chuck Palahniuk put it in Fight Club, end up owning us because now we have to use it. We have to get our money's worth out of that. We have to figure out where to put it, how to take care of it, how to insure it.

and she introduced her to A Tale of Two Cities the book

I don't really have a great answer for those two, but I do very much recommend this audiobook edition of Seneca, the Tim Ferris put together a few years ago called The Doubts of Seneca.

It is available actually as a PDF, totally for free if you go to Tim.blog slash Seneca

I suggest that you do so. I think it's a wonderful public service that Tim has done here. In the fact that it gives the PDF of it away for free is also wonderful.

I really enjoyed her book How to Fight Antisemitism, which I carry here at the Pannon porch.

I just I love John Rothsons work. I've read a ton of his books and I've recommended his books to a ton of people he's just he's as I talk about in today's interview he's just got a delightful tone and style voice and he manages to pick the most interesting subjects and make them accessible and eye opening.

His book them adventures with extremists is unfortunately quite timely as he studies conspiracy theorists and why they act the way they do his book the men who stare at goats was turned into a delightful movie with George Clooney his book the psychopath test also very very good but of course I think his best and most relevant book which is one I also carry here at the Painted Porch is So You've Been Publicly Shamed which looks at our online culture why we react the way we do to people why we gather in mobs back to the Stoics times and to the online times why why we shame why we bully why we struggle so much with forgiveness and empathy and most of all grace and John just does an incredible job in this book I know Billy Bush who I've had on the podcast read read it a number of people I know who have been sort of in the midst of these massive internet sensations turned to this book I tend to find people will read my first book dressed me online and then So You've Been Publicly Shamed I think they come at a similar problem from very different perspectives but I remember when I read So You've Been Publicly Shamed I thought that is a good book I wish I had written it but I don't think I could have or anyone could have written it as delightfully thoughtfully as John Ronson did and I was very excited to have him on the podcast

if you haven't read So You've Been Publicly Shamed you should you can pick it up at the painted porch the painted porch.com anywhere books are sold I don't know if he reads the audiobook I hope he does because he has a delightful accent and check it out in any and all formats and enjoy this interview

I think what I've always been struck by in your books and I thought this before you wrote So You've Been Publicly Shamed although it sort of was the penultimate example of this I feel like in all you're writing the one theme that runs through it is you managed to find a remarkable amount of empathy or compassion or in some cases even understanding for people either people that have screwed up people who are a bachelors crazy or you know somewhere in between how where does that come from in you.

I saw this quote and it said it was from To Kill a Mockingbird and I didn't recognize it at all. I hadn't read it in a while but I do love the book and I hadn't find it.

Truly the book for me was Rich Dad Poor Dad.

I highly recommend his book Dark Days, A Memoir

I think for me, I don't think it was so much a...I studied some...some meditation techniques via Zen Buddhism as well...so does in Buddhism my friend Brad Warner is a Buddhist teacher in that school...and that sitting still in and recognizing reality...that came from some sort of meditation that practice that served me well reading some of uh epic teetus at that time I hadn't gotten into Marcus or really as her cynical yet but reading Epic teetus and trying to I think I internalize some of like his external conditions did not define his emotional state because he you know was a slave who was we don't know to what degree crippled I suppose

I was listening to a great book the other day I'm not sure if you've heard the fourth turning