Books mentioned on the show
Bad Blood
The Innovator’s Dilemma
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
The Thinking Machine
Notes from Underground
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
God, Human, Animal, Machine
Will and Attention
Gravity and Grace
The Notebooks of Simone Weil
The Bible
Jurassic Park
Rising Sun
Japanamerica
Ametora
The Tale of Genji
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Liftoff
Reentry
The Wisdom of Finance
Nathaniel’s Nutmeg
The World’s First Stock Exchange
What would a conflict over Taiwan actually look like?
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Defending Taiwan
The Tiger Leading the Dragon
Our Friend the Atom
Atomic Dreams
The Ghost Budget
Toward Perpetual Peace
The Three Trillion Dollar War
Driven
The Technology Trap
Farmers’ Almanac
The Magical State
Things Are Never So Bad That They Can’t Get Worse
Venezuela
Abundance
Colossus
Glorious Exploits
Breakneck
Dragon Teeth
Eruption
Micro
Pirate Latitudes
The Andromeda Strain
The Lost World
Sherlock Holmes
The Lost World
PJ and Sruthi have lunch
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Lost & Found
Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart
The Zen of Therapy
10% Happier
Signs
Second Life
Testing Women, Testing the Fetus
Steve Jobs
The Almighty Dollar
The Anxious Generation
You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song
Major Labels
Airborne Contagion and Air Hygiene
Air-Borne
The Great Gatsby
More Than Words
Is the Cemetery Dead?
The Last Great Necessity
Facebook: The Inside Story
Save America
The Hours
A Royal Duty
Spare
Buckingham Palace
Lean In
Quran
Naked Airport
Biobloc Therapy
Iliad
Pericles and the Conquest of History
What’s Wrong with Democracy? From Athenian Practice to American Worship
History of the Peloponnesian War
Radical Dharma
The Triumph of Injustice
The Memoirs of Cordell Hull
Inflation
The Fifties
Dark Wire
Smart on Crime
Politics Is for Power
Der Klang der Familie
Lost and Sound
Like Catching Water in a Net
Talmud
Torah
Your Face Belongs to Us
Things Fall Apart
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Car
Zero to One
Number Go Up
The Domestic Cat
Cat Wars
Alcoholics Anonymous (The Big Book)
Burning Down My Masters’ House
The Emigrants’ Guide to Oregon and California
Pharmacopoeia Londinensis (London Pharmacopoeia)
Cannibalism
Flash
Instant
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Bell Jar
Hyperactive
On Speed
The Shallows
Understanding Media
How to Do Nothing
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Extremely Online
The Voucher Promise
Going Infinite
Liar’s Poker
The Big Short
Stateless Commerce
The Gospel of the Hold Steady
Empire of Pain
Fentanyl, Inc.
Touching the Rock
The Country of the Blind
Benjamin Franklin
Elon Musk
Antoni in the Kitchen
Antoni: Let’s Do Dinner
Animal Madness
What Looks Like Bravery
On the Origin of Species
Moby-Dick
From Search Engine, including Incognito Mode. Updated October 31, 2026. Some titles were identified from the conversation. A mention isn’t necessarily a recommendation.
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