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Tom Morello

American guitarist and singer-songwriter

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Well, certainly the one book that I’ve gifted the most in my life was a book that I first read when I was 15 and I reread it almost yearly. It’s a book called Watership Down and —

Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 1 May 2022 source ↗

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Phil Keoghan Television presenter; host of The Amazing Race
Yeah. Every year, I read The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway.
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 5 June 2018 source ↗
Jason Portnoy Investor; early finance executive at PayPal and Palantir
That’s Love Warrior , the one I talked about earlier by
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 16 June 2022 source ↗
Danny Meyer American restaurateur and writer
Well, outside of our cookbooks and Setting the Table , which is the most gift I give because someone’s got to give it, I love marketing. I just love marketing because marketing is understanding the other person. Marketing is a dialogue. It’s a lot like hospitality. And I love Seth Godin’s books. And I would say that I’ve given many of his books, but probably the one that I’ve given the most is This Is Marketing . And it comes down to one simple express — He’s just so brilliant at getting to the essence of what something really is. And he thinks marketing is when you can convey that people like us do things like this. And that sounds so simple, and yet it’s so deep actually. He understands that people want to feel — I believe that the biggest longing people have is to belong. And so great marketing actually doesn’t just sell you something. It makes you feel like you belong to a tribe. So anyway, long answer to your question, but that would be the one.
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 10 April 2023 source ↗
James Cameron Filmmaker and deep-sea explorer
Well, we give a lot of books as presents because we’re always evangelizing and proselytizing for plant-based nutrition, for the environment and sustainability and things like that. Suzy, every year, makes up a gift bag on a theme. But usually, the theme is around sustainability. And there are always some books in there. So we give out a lot of books.
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 15 November 2018 source ↗

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