On Books

1:14:19 | May 12th, 2020

In this episode, I'm reading the entire first chapter of The Overstory (2018) a novel by Richard Powers. In 2019, The Overstory won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The Overstory is a book about man...Show More

35:19 | Apr 11th, 2020

Personally, I feel burdened by the daily overproduction of knowledge. My eyes are always bigger than my stomach: I consume countless articles and podcasts, but I can never fully digest it all. Can som...Show More

35:47 | Nov 24th, 2019

From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and en...Show More

39:05 | Nov 15th, 2019

Habit - a decision you made at some point. And then stopped making, but continue acting upon. In The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg brings us scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and h...Show More

24:15 | Aug 21st, 2019

Buddhism has a lot to say about suffering—and there are likely few times we suffer more intensely than when we break up with a romantic partner. It feels like you may never recover sometimes. But Lodr...Show More

44:35 | May 3rd, 2019

This week on the show I chat with Mark Katakowski and Steven Clausnitzer of ForeverLabs. ForeverLabs is a Y Combinator company that helps people live longer by offering stem cell banking and storage. ...Show More

42:40 | Apr 11th, 2019

Buy the Change You Want to See is a new book that just came out, by Jane Mosbacher Morris. It's promoting the idea to “Vote with your dollar,” a concept that I love, and to the best of my extent, try ...Show More

27:01 | Mar 2nd, 2019

Educated is the memoir about a girl who went from being homeschooled in rural Idaho, to receive her Ph.D. from Cambridge University. Along the way she confronts poverty, ignorance, violence, and a hos...Show More