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perfect example of this in a book is Bob Eiger's book the right of a lifetime he's the CEO of Disney and he's like his book could have been like corporate management philosophies anyway sold a couple the couple thousand copies instead the book starts with a story a true story of a five-year-old kid being eaten by an alligator at a Disney world hotel

And like me, he lives out in the country in Victoria, British Columbia. So at the end we nerd out about country life, which the Epicureans said was an important part of our philosophical pursuits. So here is my conversation with the one and only Dave Asprey.

so too was the sequel everything this fucked a book about hope to say they were New York Times bestsellers would be to under sell what sensations they absolutely were

When he wrote The Everything Store, Amazon was a bookstore and many other things, but really became the behemoth that it became in the years after that book.

It's a fascinating book. It's a book, I believe we carry here at The Painted Porch among others.

It's easier to be clever than kind

His book, The Upstarts, Uber, Airbnb and the Battle for the New Silicon Valley, is also wonderful.

his book Why Liberalism Failed is actually very good

but the new book catch a craft catch a crayfish count the stars fun project skills and adventures for outdoor kids there's a ton of stuff in here for families and kids alike I am a huge Steve Rinella fan I've raved about his stuff many many times for very good reason

some parenting books I love there's a self-driven child there's a better man the good news about that behavior how to raise kids who aren't hassles to get to failure reading for our lives expecting better they're all really good but I found that reading them once wasn't nearly sufficient what I needed as a parent was the thing that I'd check in with and read every day seeing parenting as an ongoing process

He's an economist at George Mason University. I've loved his stuff so much in this idea that he was an academic but he just explored ideas.

I also really loved his new book Talent how do I identify energizers creatives and winners all around the world

I'm just writing about this in the book that I'm doing now

I think he would really like his point is that often great teams are more than the sum of their parts not because of a transcendent star like say Michael Jordan but because Michael Jordan is on a team with Bill Cartwright that the captain of great teams or businesses is often a less well-known individual a less Talented individual but is the person that binds the culture together and allows what might ordinarily be a dysfunctional trio or a collection of individuals to come together as an organization and that person is credible with the star as with the case with Cartwright but is not always the case

in our book Talent that to look for kids who had projects fairly early in life even if the project didn't succeed in every way this one of the best ways of finding Talent because you know they're at least trying they're setting out down that path and they're learning something along the way

He's a great writer. We interviewed him on Daily Stoke a long time ago about his book, The Antidote Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking, which is great. It has a whole chapter on Seneca.

In the book General Fox Conner perishes chief of operations and Eisenhower's mentors, there is a passage about the relationship. Conner gradually led Eisenhower to a more advanced level of military study via author rights that general introduced his assistant to the writings of the 19th century Prussian military theorist Carl von Klauswitz who's on war remains an influential treatise on warfare. Eisenhower struggled to grasp the military maxims set forth by Klauswitz. So Conner had Eisenhower read the book three times to drive home the lessons. Conner would quiz Eisenhower as to what each Klauswitzian principal meant in a 1966 letter Eisenhower identified onward as the book that had most profoundly influenced his military career.