American journalist, food writer
Recorded · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2018
I buy a one-off; I see a book someone will like and I buy that.
Reading & recommendations
Reading & recommendations
Five questions about books you pass on, books that changed you, gaps on your list, and long-form work that stayed with you.
5 questions, 1 answer written here by 1 member, and 226 quoted from what public figures said elsewhere, each with its source. Every question is asked in FLAPSS wording — nobody answers as anybody else.
Worth reading
Which book do you recommend most often to others, and what makes you pass it on?
American entrepreneur
Recorded · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2025
One of our board members gave me this book called The Infinite Game , and it’s the original infinite game book.
Stem cell biologist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2012
Recorded · Nobel Prize Outreach · 2012
A book also pushed me to become a medical doctor.
Every question in this questionnaire
- Which book do you recommend most often to others, and what makes you pass it on? 82
- Which book reshaped how you think, and in what way? 24
- Which book do you still mean to read, and why has it stayed on your list? 32
- Which documentary has stayed with you, and what did it change for you? 11
- What counsel would you give your twenty-year-old self — and what should they ignore? 78
Who has answered
Members with enough answers in this questionnaire to be worth arriving at — listed A–Z, not ranked by count.
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1 answer Bay Area, US
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