Stewart Brand
The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
I recommend David Deutsch's uh The Beginning of Infinity. It's basically optimism at a cosmic level. And it's full of the realization that there are always problems. And there are solutions. And that goes on infinitely. You're always at the beginning of infinity when it comes to that.
on a podcast · 24 Apr 2026 · Report
The Perfectionists by Simon Winchester
I recommend a book by Simon Winchester called The Perfectionists, How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World. And then uh I wound up revisiting uh when I was I did a section on manuals. And so, the great manuals of history.
on a podcast · 24 Apr 2026 · Report
The Scottish Enlightenment by Arthur Herman
The Scottish Enlightenment um so they they were very impressed by and they all studied uh Diderot's Encyclopedia and they came up with their own encyclopedia called the Encyclopedia Britannica which which went from strength to strength for 100 years.
on a podcast · 24 Apr 2026 · Report
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