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From The Tim Ferriss Show · 2017-12-13
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“the author of books including polar discipline the clock of the long now how buildings learn and the Media Lab”
“the author of books including polar discipline the clock of the long now how buildings learn and the Media Lab”
“the author of books including polar discipline the clock of the long now how buildings learn and the Media Lab”
“I thought about using a title from our Kesler about astronomy is called The Sleepwalkers”
“you you make these appearances in so many defining cultural works or moments it's almost like watching Forrest Gump but with someone who's not for us government it's really astonishing well I'm on the box of chocolates you know you really do not know what you're gonna get approach to things but yeah I got lucky but partly by choice I'm in a very over you know specializes in doing weird stuff in the San Francisco Bay Area and you run into a lot and wind up connecting with a lot that turns out to be important just by sort of strolling around can you tell us about the about Blue Marble so the can you tell us about the buttons that you distributed or I guess you were selling them way back in the day and give us a little bit of context okay the Blue Marble you're referring to is the look at the Earth from space yeah and we're still talking about drugs because I was bored in the spring of 1966 and on my rooftop in North Beach San Francisco I took sort of a half a dose maybe a hundred hundred 50 micrograms my curl whatever's microphone yeah of LSD and uh just had a nice long thoughtful afternoon that was colored by having listening to a fair amount of buckminster for lectures and read his books over the previous months”
“Jim Glick in a version of his book time travel is some of the most cogent thinking about time that I think we've seen in a long time”
“Geoffrey West his book scale I did a talk version of that which is tastic”
“that is James Peake Arce's finite and infinite games”
“the other book is homo Luden's by a poisoner and homo Luden's basically says man the player of games is is what we do”
“Edward o Wilson wrote a rather wonderful memoir called naturalist about his becoming one of the great biologists of his time”
“one of his books is called infinite in all directions which is the right kind of frame to have in relation to the universe”
“the Fineman surely you're joking mr. Feynman I was gonna bring another yeah those work very well”