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Book Schmooze is a book review podcast where we ramble about books that we just read, mostly non-fiction. Contact Email: bookschmooze@gmail.com “If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.”― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
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Selfish Reasons to have more Kids by Bryan Caplan
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Send us a Text Message.By Anna & Alexej
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The Sovereign Individual by James Davidson and William Rees-Mogg
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Send us a Text Message. Coughing our way through this intriguing book. Happy New Year!By Anna & Alexej
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode we disucss the "graphic textbook" Open Borders by econ professor Bryan Caplan, illustrated by Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal cartoonist Zach Weinersmith. EDIT: Caplan recently published some new interesting thoughts about why immigrants are left wing[1]. Whereas we argued that immigrant culture/politics is…
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The Machiavellians by James Burnham
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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to season 2 of Book Schmooze with all new books and a brand new microphone!! Notes: Robert Michels was actually German!By Anna & Alexej
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode we discuss the widely popular self-improvement classic "Atomic habits" by James Clear. Enjoy and do check out James Clear's weekly newsletter: https://jamesclear.com/3-2-1By Anna & Alexej
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[GERMAN] Also sprach Zarathustra von Friedrich Nietzsche
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Send us a Text Message. *CAREFUL* THIS EPISODE IS IN *GERMAN* To celebrate the anniversary of the fifth episode of the Book Schmooze podcast, we made an episode in GERMAN!By Anna & Alexej
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Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Send us a Text Message. In this crisp episode we talk about Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder by probability researcher and philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Check it out! Spoiler alert: this is nowhere near a comprehensive review, quite the opposite: we barely managed to scratch the surface of Taleb's geniality and many mind-blowing bit…
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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode we discuss "Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future" by Peter Thiel.By Anna & Alexej
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Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life by Luke Burgis
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Send us a Text Message. In the second episode of the Book Schmooze podcast we babble about the book "Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life" by Luke Burgis. The book is based on the so called "Mimetic Theory" by René Girard which we also discuss.By Anna & Alexej
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The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't by Julia Galef
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Send us a Text Message. In this inaugural episode of the Book Schmooze podcast we review the book "The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't" by Julia Galef. Is it RAD or is it WHACK? Find out by listening to this episode. Some notes: -That one time Alexej talked about Expected Utility Theory what he actually meant was …
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