Which ones caught your interest? Links to the books: War: amzn.to/3WzVlYR The New Map: amzn.to/4hlpd3e Why Nations Fail: amzn.to/4honASN Prisoners of Geography: amzn.to/4gevPz6 The Power of Geography: amzn.to/4gc66r1 The Future of Geography: amzn.to/4aAwav6 I'll earn a small commission if you purchase using my links.
Hey Paul, at the beginning I thought you were just someone who wanted to copy Peter Zeihan (who I don‘t value because of his disconnect between knowledge and opinion) and was thus very critical of you. But over time you really earned my respect. I value your insights and your deep thoughts. Thank you very much!
Working at a university I got to work with many people from outside the US. To help them understand us I would give them a few small books. Tim Marshall's Prisoners of Geography was one. The others were Eleven Nations of North America and The Mystery of Capitalism. If they were a real nerd they got Ideas of Economic Complexity. Now I would recommend any of Peter Zeihan's books. Next on my list is The Grid. Thank you for your recommendations.
Stay safe my friend. Let’s all keep in mind we the people don’t have a fight with each other, it’s the robber barons and dictators that need to assert their dominance
Thanks Paul. Just what I was needing to improve my base knowledge and hopefully will provide references I can relate to in your future videos. Keep up the superb work.
This was a great video, Paul 👍 I’ll add those to my list. Actually maybe some short book summary videos would be good regular content for you? Just 5 or 10 minutes on each book or something? Cheers
Dear Paul, I love your comments ! Because they show me that you are able to perceive and think in complexity! This, many people are not able to do. But you. Even in my consultancy many heads of companies are not able to it. One the other hand, your perception of these movements in consciousness are so subtle, but you see them. To me we arrived in a time of rapid changes in awareness. And so we will see huge changes in the world nostly peaceful. I'm looking forward to your next comments. By the way, i love to read a lot! Thank you for your suggestions! ❤❤❤❤
Hello, Paul, and thanks. May years ago, one of my teachers insisted that the greatest advantage of university is that it makes us interact with people who don't see the world just as we do, which in turn can help us to think more self-critically. Do you think that this is still true? The humanities, including history, seem to have been distorted by the people with megaphones and those who find any question to be an assault.
I’m glad you talked about this. Occasionally there are interesting comments on the various you tube channels I follow. I express my opinions too, because I’m interested in understanding events. I appreciate it when others provide comments that clarify my understanding. Your book suggestions are very helpful, so thank you for bringing them to our notice.
I will recommend a book for you, "The Great Depression" by John Kenneth Galbraith. There are myths still prevalent about how that happened, what were the causes, and how the "Golden Age" lead to the roaring twenties then onward. By the way, Galbraith was an economic advisor to Reagan. Reagan fell in love with ", trickle down economics theory" or it's relative "supply side economics". Feed the wealthy everyone else gets the leftovers. Galbraith TOLD Ronald Reagan it's bunk.
If you want to understand the economics of the Great Depression (and some general economics) try "The Forgotten Man" by Amity Shlaes. Warning: It contradicts some conventional thinking.
Paul, you’re the best like I had said to you numerous times I was an instructor for the high-speed trains in our country but I was also lucky enough to come from three previous generations. I was the fourth generation so I had a very good background with the railroad and I know we’re all the bones were buried and all the stories with them. Please don’t stop and I hope that Ukraine can win this battle. This New World of Vladimir Putin Russia is not what we were dealing with with Gorbachev or Ellen.
I have a feeling that inequality can have something to do with why nations fail. Also I'll definitely check those geography books out. Thank you and get well!
As a Brazilian, I must say that in "Prisoners of Geography," there are several misconceptions in the chapters about Brazil and Latin America. A book to be read with caution.
Thanks mate. Brazilian here too but I didn’t read this one (yet). So if you can give some examples I would appreciate too (or I will need to wait until I read this one). Grande abraço
Hey Paul. Love you. I'll buy the books. Little funny comment: how aren't we all vain about knowledge, even the best of us with the best intentions fall for the love of what they think is the knowledge and will say something like «99% of», of anything; while in truth, we walk toward knowledge without knowing was is to be known, and therefore, without been able to make a determination of percentage of anything. We all believe we are at 99% until we realize the whole we have in the understanding of the very next neighbour, South-America...
All of them sound really good. I might try “Why Nations Fail” first. I found Peter Zeihan’s “The End of the World Is Just the Beginning “ to be really informative. He draws a lot on geography and demographics in his work. Thank you for sharing your suggestions. I look forward to learning more!
Excellent recommendations. I have read 4 of them, while "War" is on my list, and i decided not to go for The Future of Geography, which i do not doubt it will be a great book. It's about the Space politics.
Thank you for this! If you enjoyed "Why nations fail" I would really recommend "The narrow corridor", also by Acemoglu & Robinson. It is a little bit of a sequel but the thesis is expanded in various ways. They propose a fairly advanced, yet comprehensible thesis of what components are required for nations to keep their liberal society as well as a functioning economy in the long term. In the contemporary political landscape I find their argument of society's response to new technology particularly interesting.
I took Political Geography in college and received the highest grade at university and wasn't a political science or geography major. I also took two political science courses as electives in my freshman and sophomore years and absolutely loved them. One was taught by a guy who I thought was in the CIA or NSA because he only taught class on Tuesdays and Thursdays and spent the rest of the time commuting to DC and knew EVERYTHING about Iran and the other was a former member of the OSI before and after WWII. I was asked by the chair of the geography dept to consider transferring to their program but couldn't see myself making a living as a geographer or college professor so I went into business, which I hated. However, that class in particular has had a lasting impact of understanding the world we live in. I just ordered two of the six books you recommended and look forward to reading them.
“Why Nations Fail” is bang on and supports all the research I’ve done on this subject. It also supports that with Trump in power, the US is in that boat. I’ve always wondered why those who gather the wealth, only to end up toppled at sometime, haven’t work this out. Greed is total I suspect.
Might have something to do with evolution, the most cunning, unscrupulous ones float to the top. The sense of individuality humans have nowadays is relatively new, most medieval painters didn’t sign their work, bc is was in reference to God. Individualism goes against survival of the planet as a whole.
Hi Paul, thank you for your work. Good reads I’ll check them out. Glad you’re feeling better. 2 YT channels you may want to check out. Bald Max he’s a Ukrainian speaking to random Russians. The other is Elvira Bary. She is Russian born historian.
I am going to suggest this video to my husband, who loves reading. I think he already has Why Nations Fail. I'll ask him to buy all his Amazon orders through your affiliate link, too.
Agreed, I read prisoners of geography a while back, it doesn't dive too deep but really helps give a surface level understanding of "the bigger picture". How nations think and act and have acted in the past, and how we got to today, definitely going read the others by Tim Marshall. Currently reading Zeihans first book,(the 10 years on edition) only about 1/5 done and already helped me realize and connect things I never would have thought of otherwise.
Big thank's from France. I love your job. Very serrious and complet and for me you'r the only personne with veritable analyse about war in Ukraine.Sorry for my bad English, slavia Ukrainia, best regard's
Interesting recommendations. I just picked up The New Map from my library today on the strength of an interview done with Daniel Yergin on Dwarkesh Patels YT channel.
I wonder if the Jared Diamond books would be expansive for you. His books cover many of the same topics. If I'm not mistaken, he was the original geography-is-destiny guy. He his probably in the footnotes of the Tim Marshall books. He is a deep diver and deals more theoretically about the cause and effect of these things. If you haven't read him already, I think you might find that people like Tim Marshall are building on his ideas within the context of current affairs. So the value of Diamond's books to you might just be a deeper understanding of the conditions geography and people's relationship to it create for what is possible. Geography and how easily people can find food also has an influence on how aggressive and war-like or passive and friendly people are to their neighbors and even their own families.
not to be nit picky but just to let you know the link to future of geography is the link for prisoners of geography. Glad to get the list though, I'll be reading. Great job.
Plowed through War by Woodward. Incredible book. Makes me want to go back to his prior books in the past 8 years. Read Daron's book long ago in grad school - might revisit it if I have time. Building a list of books on autocracy to read this year, and looking to revisit some classics like Barrington Moore, Hannah Arendt, and Orwell. Have you ever read "The Red Web"?
Unless I am mistaken, I believe Mr. Acemoglu and Mr. Robinson won the Nobel for Economics last year based on the ideas presented in, ‘Why Nations Fail’.
I’ve read all, minus the last one. Great books! I would add “The End of the World is Just the Beginning” by Peter Zeihan. It will complete your books with a well laid out view of our present world (and how we got here) and our future world (and why we’ll get there ) from a demographic, geographic and social perspective. Maybe a bit too pessimistic, but a great lecture for sure.
Thanks for this. I'm going to be on a few long haul flights to Asia soon, so I was looking for some quality analog reading material. I detest audiobooks and readers, despite the fact that I myself build electronic products.
The largest problem with those who do not know.....is that they don't know that they do not know. One of the 'Rules of Stupidity' is, "No matter how many stupid people you think there are in the world, there are ALWAYS more."
Do you have hope for the USA (or Russia or China)? It seems to be the case, and this trend seems to be going globally, that we are developing towards oligarchy, which unfortunately means that we will have to start a "world revolution" at some point! Why I mention Russia and China, because there seems to be a concentration of very rich people, especially in these countries. India is also following this trend, but not yet with such obvious arrogance! Best greetings from EU!
You could have shown the back of Why Nations Fail. At least with my version it shows six quotes which praise the book to the skies. Four of them are by Nobel laureates in economics...
If you want to know how the world REALLY works, read the book "How the World Really Works" and also "Numbers Don't Lie", both by Vaclav Smil. You may not have heard of him before, but he has written many very highly rated books, and is Bill Gate's favorite author.
Thanks for your book recommendations! My choices #2 + #5 expecting these books are as usual more up-to-date and easier readable (as my other IT/SW tech books) compared to typical german science books. PS: I'm pro-EU german citizen with multiple years expierience as US employee (like my father) as graduated computer/software engineer. (@War: I'm looking forward for the Ultimative Human Brain Book Injector Telepathy Device => combining eBook-Reader Technology with Microsofts Device Driver example code! Every government can than broadcast official thoughts of the day including war conform group thinking skipping reading as a dangerous uncontrollable human skill :-)
Or Jared Diamond's 1) Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis: and 2) Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Spoiler (I'm a huge Jared Diamond fan).
I wish reading was an effective medium for me; I really can't focus or learn on information gleaned from a book, my ADHD is too bad. Although I thoroughly support books and reading and learning for and buy others, as I recognize what a benefit they are 2 hours society and the advancement of our species
Get well! Be well! Lemme see now, a person in Utah thinks three of his five books should be about geography? "Hey, Brigham! This furshlugginer thing is full of salt! Did we take a wrong turn back there in Illinois?" That sort of three books out of five? 🤣😇🤔
The reason I rarely read books on subjects like the Russian conflict because I always assume they are going to be outdated by the time I read them. Even when TH-cam presents me a video on this kind of topic that isn't pretty new (
I stood outside & protested in Canada 3 times when they streamed it ruZZians at war in my city! I was able to stop 1 man from going in, & on the 3rd one at a different location he aay me at the door & "Said" i wondered if i would see you & i told him to go watch 20 days of Mariupol for free on YT & he left!
Bob Woodward never understand the persuasion talent of Donald Trump. Read "The Prize" from Daniel Yergin. A must read for everyone who wants to know more about the Oil Industry.
Which ones caught your interest?
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Hi Paul. The link to the future of geography is wrong. Thank you for your recommendations!
I'm Canadian and won't buy anything from the US, Amazon included. I may order two of them from my local independent bookstore.
@@PaulJWarburg However, I am interested in your Patreon Paul, but on adding you, I currently don’t have any posts coming up.
@@PaulJWarburg most. I'm heading Thailand on holiday in couple days .so check out when back.
Thanks! Should be fixed now.
Hey Paul, at the beginning I thought you were just someone who wanted to copy Peter Zeihan (who I don‘t value because of his disconnect between knowledge and opinion) and was thus very critical of you. But over time you really earned my respect. I value your insights and your deep thoughts. Thank you very much!
One of the 'Rules of Stupidity' is, "No matter how many stupid people you think there are in the world, there are ALWAYS more."
Thanks, Paul! I hope you're feeling better!
Working at a university I got to work with many people from outside the US. To help them understand us I would give them a few small books. Tim Marshall's Prisoners of Geography was one. The others were Eleven Nations of North America and The Mystery of Capitalism. If they were a real nerd they got Ideas of Economic Complexity.
Now I would recommend any of Peter Zeihan's books. Next on my list is The Grid.
Thank you for your recommendations.
It is a coincidence, but I'm finishing Why Nations Fail now. As a Russian myself, I see a grim future for my country after reading this book.
You are clearly not Russian.
@@DavidGitongawriterand what made you think so, lol
I suspect you won't answer me, as you didn't to any other comments that you left on this channel
Stay safe my friend.
Let’s all keep in mind we the people don’t have a fight with each other, it’s the robber barons and dictators that need to assert their dominance
Yes, I can understand what you say. I am concerned that history is about to be repeated here in the US.
Bro you are so inspiring. Truly. Thank you.
Thank you for linking these
Thanks Paul. Just what I was needing to improve my base knowledge and hopefully will provide references I can relate to in your future videos. Keep up the superb work.
This was a great video, Paul 👍 I’ll add those to my list. Actually maybe some short book summary videos would be good regular content for you? Just 5 or 10 minutes on each book or something? Cheers
Good idea.
By bizarre coincidence I've just begun looking for books on geopolitics. I'll check them out. Many thanks.
Dear Paul,
I love your comments ! Because they show me that you are able to perceive and think in complexity!
This, many people are not able to do. But you.
Even in my consultancy many heads of companies are not able to it.
One the other hand, your perception of these movements in consciousness are so subtle, but you see them.
To me we arrived in a time of rapid changes in awareness. And so we will see huge changes in the world nostly peaceful.
I'm looking forward to your next comments.
By the way, i love to read a lot! Thank you for your suggestions! ❤❤❤❤
One of the 'Rules of Stupidity' is, "No matter how many stupid people you think there are in the world, there are ALWAYS more."
Paul is helping to break down stereotypes of people who live in Utah.
ICYI
• Huntington’s *Clash of Civilisations*
• Snyder’s *Road to Unfreedom*
• Sanger’s *New Cold Wars*
• Williams’ *Truth & Truthfulness*
• Piketty’s *Capital et Idéologie*
Thank you
I read Road to Unfreedom and it explains what Russia is really after and how it already is fighting a hybrid war with the West since 2010.
Thanks for this.
Thank you so much for your recommendations. We all need to read and understand more
Hello, Paul, and thanks. May years ago, one of my teachers insisted that the greatest advantage of university is that it makes us interact with people who don't see the world just as we do, which in turn can help us to think more self-critically. Do you think that this is still true? The humanities, including history, seem to have been distorted by the people with megaphones and those who find any question to be an assault.
I’m glad you talked about this. Occasionally there are interesting comments on the various you tube channels I follow. I express my opinions too, because I’m interested in understanding events. I appreciate it when others provide comments that clarify my understanding. Your book suggestions are very helpful, so thank you for bringing them to our notice.
Bought them all. Thank you, sir!
Really good book choices and advices.
Thank you for presenting these resources
This was really interesting. Hope that you will have more recommendations in the future.
I will recommend a book for you, "The Great Depression" by John Kenneth Galbraith.
There are myths still prevalent about how that happened, what were the causes, and how the "Golden Age" lead to the roaring twenties then onward.
By the way, Galbraith was an economic advisor to Reagan. Reagan fell in love with ", trickle down economics theory" or it's relative "supply side economics". Feed the wealthy everyone else gets the leftovers. Galbraith TOLD Ronald Reagan it's bunk.
If you want to understand the economics of the Great Depression (and some general economics) try "The Forgotten Man" by Amity Shlaes.
Warning: It contradicts some conventional thinking.
Thanks for the informative videos
Alright. Make Reading Great Again!
Great video and channel. Thanks so much for these book recommendations.
Thanks for the recommendations
Paul, you’re the best like I had said to you numerous times I was an instructor for the high-speed trains in our country but I was also lucky enough to come from three previous generations. I was the fourth generation so I had a very good background with the railroad and I know we’re all the bones were buried and all the stories with them. Please don’t stop and I hope that Ukraine can win this battle. This New World of Vladimir Putin Russia is not what we were dealing with with Gorbachev or Ellen.
I have a feeling that inequality can have something to do with why nations fail. Also I'll definitely check those geography books out. Thank you and get well!
As a Brazilian, I must say that in "Prisoners of Geography," there are several misconceptions in the chapters about Brazil and Latin America. A book to be read with caution.
Such as?
Thanks mate. Brazilian here too but I didn’t read this one (yet). So if you can give some examples I would appreciate too (or I will need to wait until I read this one).
Grande abraço
Would also like to know what these are
Hey Paul. Love you. I'll buy the books. Little funny comment: how aren't we all vain about knowledge, even the best of us with the best intentions fall for the love of what they think is the knowledge and will say something like «99% of», of anything; while in truth, we walk toward knowledge without knowing was is to be known, and therefore, without been able to make a determination of percentage of anything. We all believe we are at 99% until we realize the whole we have in the understanding of the very next neighbour, South-America...
Thank you Paul!👍❤
All of them sound really good. I might try “Why Nations Fail” first. I found Peter Zeihan’s “The End of the World Is Just the Beginning “ to be really informative. He draws a lot on geography and demographics in his work. Thank you for sharing your suggestions. I look forward to learning more!
That’s a great one also! Haven’t quite finished it yet.
I just purchased Why Nation Fail! Hopefully I can start on it soon! Thanks again.
Excellent recommendations. I have read 4 of them, while "War" is on my list, and i decided not to go for The Future of Geography, which i do not doubt it will be a great book. It's about the Space politics.
Thank you for this! If you enjoyed "Why nations fail" I would really recommend "The narrow corridor", also by Acemoglu & Robinson. It is a little bit of a sequel but the thesis is expanded in various ways. They propose a fairly advanced, yet comprehensible thesis of what components are required for nations to keep their liberal society as well as a functioning economy in the long term. In the contemporary political landscape I find their argument of society's response to new technology particularly interesting.
Thanks!
Thanks for the support Daniel!
Excellent recommendations
I took Political Geography in college and received the highest grade at university and wasn't a political science or geography major. I also took two political science courses as electives in my freshman and sophomore years and absolutely loved them. One was taught by a guy who I thought was in the CIA or NSA because he only taught class on Tuesdays and Thursdays and spent the rest of the time commuting to DC and knew EVERYTHING about Iran and the other was a former member of the OSI before and after WWII. I was asked by the chair of the geography dept to consider transferring to their program but couldn't see myself making a living as a geographer or college professor so I went into business, which I hated. However, that class in particular has had a lasting impact of understanding the world we live in. I just ordered two of the six books you recommended and look forward to reading them.
Great video. Love the books
Thanks! I’m a lapsed International Studies major, it will be interesting to update my knowledge base.
Great video
Good recommendations
Appreciate these books 📚
Great video man!
Thanks for the recommendations.
Tim Marshall an excellent author, I have all his books.. You can never have too many books.. Or cats..
“Why Nations Fail” is bang on and supports all the research I’ve done on this subject. It also supports that with Trump in power, the US is in that boat.
I’ve always wondered why those who gather the wealth, only to end up toppled at sometime, haven’t work this out. Greed is total I suspect.
Might have something to do with evolution, the most cunning, unscrupulous ones float to the top. The sense of individuality humans have nowadays is relatively new, most medieval painters didn’t sign their work, bc is was in reference to God. Individualism goes against survival of the planet as a whole.
cheers man!
Hi Paul, thank you for your work. Good reads I’ll check them out. Glad you’re feeling better.
2 YT channels you may want to check out. Bald Max he’s a Ukrainian speaking to random Russians. The other is Elvira Bary. She is Russian born historian.
I am going to suggest this video to my husband, who loves reading. I think he already has Why Nations Fail. I'll ask him to buy all his Amazon orders through your affiliate link, too.
Agreed, I read prisoners of geography a while back, it doesn't dive too deep but really helps give a surface level understanding of "the bigger picture". How nations think and act and have acted in the past, and how we got to today, definitely going read the others by Tim Marshall. Currently reading Zeihans first book,(the 10 years on edition) only about 1/5 done and already helped me realize and connect things I never would have thought of otherwise.
Thanks, I added them to my wish list! Peter Zeihan's Books are also a good overview of issues faced by nations throughout the world.
Peter connects geography to the resources in the countries a lot more which I value.
Paul's channel is basically Peter Zeihan but with much better info and actually covering important topics in a timely manner.
Big thank's from France. I love your job. Very serrious and complet and for me you'r the only personne with veritable analyse about war in Ukraine.Sorry for my bad English, slavia Ukrainia, best regard's
Interesting recommendations. I just picked up The New Map from my library today on the strength of an interview done with Daniel Yergin on Dwarkesh Patels YT channel.
I wonder if the Jared Diamond books would be expansive for you. His books cover many of the same topics. If I'm not mistaken, he was the original geography-is-destiny guy. He his probably in the footnotes of the Tim Marshall books. He is a deep diver and deals more theoretically about the cause and effect of these things. If you haven't read him already, I think you might find that people like Tim Marshall are building on his ideas within the context of current affairs. So the value of Diamond's books to you might just be a deeper understanding of the conditions geography and people's relationship to it create for what is possible. Geography and how easily people can find food also has an influence on how aggressive and war-like or passive and friendly people are to their neighbors and even their own families.
not to be nit picky but just to let you know the link to future of geography is the link for prisoners of geography. Glad to get the list though, I'll be reading. Great job.
Plowed through War by Woodward. Incredible book. Makes me want to go back to his prior books in the past 8 years. Read Daron's book long ago in grad school - might revisit it if I have time. Building a list of books on autocracy to read this year, and looking to revisit some classics like Barrington Moore, Hannah Arendt, and Orwell. Have you ever read "The Red Web"?
You do RESEARCH? Insanity, lol. Jokes aside, loving the very informative content, keep them coming Paul!
Unless I am mistaken, I believe Mr. Acemoglu and Mr. Robinson won the Nobel for Economics last year based on the ideas presented in, ‘Why Nations Fail’.
I’ve read all, minus the last one. Great books! I would add “The End of the World is Just the Beginning” by Peter Zeihan. It will complete your books with a well laid out view of our present world (and how we got here) and our future world (and why we’ll get there ) from a demographic, geographic and social perspective. Maybe a bit too pessimistic, but a great lecture for sure.
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Thanks for this. I'm going to be on a few long haul flights to Asia soon, so I was looking for some quality analog reading material. I detest audiobooks and readers, despite the fact that I myself build electronic products.
The largest problem with those who do not know.....is that they don't know that they do not know. One of the 'Rules of Stupidity' is, "No matter how many stupid people you think there are in the world, there are ALWAYS more."
Crazy man, crazy. Read 'Why Nations Fail' a long time ago & many others. But my right eyes has gone so, no longer. Still have 'You Tube.'
I also recommend the next 100 years, I think it’s really interesting and a good read.
Reading is not _that_ uncommon. Yet.
Nevertheless, hardly anyone is willing to sacrifice much time for it. That's why guys like you are so important.
Do you have hope for the USA (or Russia or China)? It seems to be the case, and this trend seems to be going globally, that we are developing towards oligarchy, which unfortunately means that we will have to start a "world revolution" at some point! Why I mention Russia and China, because there seems to be a concentration of very rich people, especially in these countries. India is also following this trend, but not yet with such obvious arrogance!
Best greetings from EU!
Don't forget the OG of geopolitics: The Influence of Sea Power Upon History by A.T. Mahan.
You could have shown the back of Why Nations Fail. At least with my version it shows six quotes which praise the book to the skies. Four of them are by Nobel laureates in economics...
I book that I loved in the last year was “God, an anatomy” by Dr Francesca Stavrakopoulou.
Should we read the m in the order presented or do you have a different recommendation?
The Dictator's Handbook is missing here.
If you want to know how the world REALLY works, read the book "How the World Really Works" and also "Numbers Don't Lie", both by Vaclav Smil. You may not have heard of him before, but he has written many very highly rated books, and is Bill Gate's favorite author.
Ah yes - reading - something not done enough these days - especially with younger folk. Thanks Paul
@paulwarburg, thank you so much. Thanks to your recommendation, I already start reading why nations fail.
Is this a 3 or 4 credit course 😊
Thanks for your book recommendations! My choices #2 + #5 expecting these books are as usual more up-to-date and easier readable (as my other IT/SW tech books) compared to typical german science books.
PS: I'm pro-EU german citizen with multiple years expierience as US employee (like my father) as graduated computer/software engineer.
(@War: I'm looking forward for the Ultimative Human Brain Book Injector Telepathy Device => combining eBook-Reader Technology with Microsofts Device Driver example code! Every government can than broadcast official thoughts of the day including war conform group thinking skipping reading as a dangerous uncontrollable human skill :-)
Peter Zeihan' books - "the end of the world is just the beginning"
Or Jared Diamond's 1) Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis: and 2) Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Spoiler (I'm a huge Jared Diamond fan).
Hey Paul, you seem to be 'back in Utah today' quiet often!
I wish reading was an effective medium for me; I really can't focus or learn on information gleaned from a book, my ADHD is too bad. Although I thoroughly support books and reading and learning for and buy others, as I recognize what a benefit they are 2 hours society and the advancement of our species
(0:40) Hi Paul. What is this thing you call "reading" ? Is that like doom scrolling reels on Tik Tok ?
What about Peter Zeihan's books? Accidental superpower, absent superpower etc?
Started reading, but haven’t finished them. Maybe they’ll make the next list :)
@Paul Have you read “The Righteous Mind” by Jon Haidt yet? I definitely put that in my “must read” category.
Thank you! Great recommendations. Have you read Timothy Snyder's books, especially the Road to Unfreedom?
Get well! Be well!
Lemme see now, a person in Utah thinks three of his five books should be about geography?
"Hey, Brigham! This furshlugginer thing is full of salt! Did we take a wrong turn back there in Illinois?" That sort of three books out of five? 🤣😇🤔
I did get why nations fail, I think because Noah smith recommended it, but have been too lazy to read it. This video reminds me I should just do it.
Borders are fluid things....
Actually it’s debatable whether they are fasciitis or nazis. Not often you get both in the same place.
The reason I rarely read books on subjects like the Russian conflict because I always assume they are going to be outdated by the time I read them. Even when TH-cam presents me a video on this kind of topic that isn't pretty new (
I stood outside & protested in Canada 3 times when they streamed it ruZZians at war in my city! I was able to stop 1 man from going in, & on the 3rd one at a different location he aay me at the door & "Said" i wondered if i would see you & i told him to go watch 20 days of Mariupol for free on YT & he left!
Adam bashing his head on the wall again on the idiocy of the tech brokes 😅
War by Bob Woodward? I prefer Gas in the bath by Edward Woodward.
Bob Woodward never understand the persuasion talent of Donald Trump. Read "The Prize" from Daniel Yergin. A must read for everyone who wants to know more about the Oil Industry.
Almost every broadcaster I follow is getting sick. Everyone needs to go and rest. We need you to stay healthy.
Slava Ukraine!
Okaaaay...but what's a book??? 🤣🤣🤣
Any women on your reading list?
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I ordered all of those books. After becoming as smart as you, I can finally unsubscribe and go back to my cat videos!
I don't hear you talking about the nazis in your country
There’s an old English proverb. “People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones”. Fits perfect here I suspect.
Thanks for mansplaining reading.