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Liz Lambert

Hotelier; founder of Bunkhouse Group

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I love that you asked that question that way because it really puts it in a different perspective. It’s like not what your favorite book is, it’s what you’ve given as a gift, which I thought about a little bit this morning. And it’s so clear. I have an immediate answer, and then, I had to think why did I do that. But I think, when I was younger, and still to this day, I sometimes gift a book of poetry by Adriane Rich called A Dream of Common Language , which was a book she wrote in the late ‘70s. And she’s a poet that – I was trying to think why was that book so important to me. And it’s really funny. When I read Cheryl Strayed’s Wild that was one of the books that was most important to her that she had as she hiked the Pacific Rim. Tim Ferriss: That’s right. I totally forgot about that. Liz Lambert: Yeah. I gift a lot Slouching Towards Bethlehem , a book by Joan Didion, which is a collection of essays that I love that book so much. It is a lot about the kind of writing Joan Didion is doing. And those essays are both of the time. There’s one that’s about John Wayne, about California. But there’s also this collection of personal essays she does. One is called On Keeping a Notebook that I go back to again and again, and I share a lot. Tim Ferriss: On Keeping a Notebook

Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 26 June 2018 source ↗

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Tristan Harris American computer scientist and businessman
It’s a great question. Neil Postman in general is a media thinker about some of the topics we’ve discussed today is just excellent. He foresaw so many of the problems in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death . Another one by him is called Technopoly , which also is about how when culture surrenders to technology. And especially the quantification of metrics and SAT scores and time spent in GDP and these kinds of things, he covers in that book. I highly recommend. There’s another book called Finite and Infinite Games . Do you know this one?
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 24 September 2019 source ↗
Debbie Millman Designer; host of Design Matters; founder of the SVA branding programme
Well, a book that has influenced my life and one that I keep going back to over and over is the anthology, The Voice That is
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 26 June 2018 source ↗
Richard Branson English business magnate
Climate Change is something which I’ve spent a lot of time on. I would highly recommend a book by Tim Flannery called The Weather Makers , which was one of the books that opened my eyes to the problem that we have in the world. I’m just reading Homo Deus , and I will carry on to read Sapiens , one of his first books. I just love the style of his writing. I love books where you’re learning something from them, rather than if I want fiction, I’ll get a good film out. If I’m reading books, I like to read books which have got some substance.
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 7 July 2018 source ↗
Reid Hoffman Co-founder of LinkedIn; partner at Greylock Partners
Obvious I give out my own books fairly often: The Startup View , The Alliance . Recently I’ve been giving out another book of friend of mine, Joshua Cooper Ramos, The Seventh Sense .
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 1 June 2018 source ↗

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