Bushman’s Recommended Podcasts, Blogs, Books, Videos and more
Recommended Podcasts: Brilliant people, great interviews EconTalk with Russ Roberts of the Hoover Institution One of the best interviewers out there Making Sense Podcast with Sam Harris philosopher; author; practiced meditator Mindscape Podcast with physicist Sean Carroll (Cal Tech) Also Sean’s The Biggest Ideas in the Universe series The Jim Rutt Show Jim Rutt is an Entrepreneur &Trustee at the Santa Fe Institute (don’t let his gruffness turn you off) Joe Rogan Experience with Joe Rogan Comedian, martial artist, great interviewer; Rogan Kicks 1 Kicks 2 With Elon Musk Conversations with Tyler podcast with Tyler Cowan. Deep, funny, insightful, intellectually entertaining Lex Fridman Lex is one of a kind. Jordan Peterson A brilliant fellow (if you think he is evil, check out these podcasts: Yeonmi Park; Bari Weiss)
Recommended Blogs and Websites: I learn a lot from these Marginal Revolution with (again) Tyler Cowan. I am always finding cool, entertaining, deep stuff here The Grumpy Economist with John Cochrane Insightful views of a hardcore, Chicago-school economist Musings on Markets with Aswath Damodaran Really insightful analyses of capital markets by a master of valuation City Journal Very intelligent essays from really smart people. The Manhattan Institute Quillette Eclectic essays by interesting people. Motto: Free Thought Lives ProMarket Chicago Booth George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State Think Inc. Think Inc. YouTube The name speaks for itself Finematics Short, informative videos on everything crypto and DeFi Pursuit of Wonder Eclectic meaning of life videos
Business, Economics, Law and Society The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World Podcasts: Adrian Wooldridge Michael Sandel The Social Dilemma Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit by Alex Edmans The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein Liars Poker by Michael Lewis (also Moneyball, The Big Short, a lot more ) The Bankers’ New Clothes Econ Talk Podcasts Admati 1 Admati 2 Pfleiderer Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists Econ Talk 1 Econ Talk 2 Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty Podcast Discrimination and Disparities by Thomas Sowell YouTube 1 Intellectuals and Society The Chickenshit Club ; Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal Free to Choose & Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman; Free To Choose Media Podcast; Friedman Fundamentals Hoover Institution: Human Prosperity Project on Socialism and Free-Market Capitalism POLICYed: Topics Series Marginal Revolution University The Use of Knowledge in Society by Friedrich Hayek Econ Talk 1 Econ Talk 2 Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis by Ludwig Von Mises Econ Talk 1; Econ Talk 2 ; Mystery of the Kibbutz Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged/The Fountainhead; What is Capitalism?; Capitalism vs. Communism; Ayn Rand and the Goddess of the Market
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The Search for Meaning The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself by Sean Carroll Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris Siddhartha; The Journey to the East by Hermann Hesse Man's Search for Meaning Victor Frankl Survival In Auschwitz (Primo Levi); If not now, when? (Primo Levi); Night (Elie Wiesel); The Source (James Michener) How Soccer Explains the World by Franklin Foer YouTube The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene YouTube Meetings with Remarkable Men by George Gurdjieff ; In Search of the Miraculous by P. D. Ouspensky YouTube The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda (the trilogy + Separate Reality & Ixtlan) The Five Tibetans by Christopher Kilham Demonstrations: YouTube 1 YouTube2 Autobiography of a Yogi ; The Way of Zen Alan Watts Lectures Opening the Energy Gates of Your Body by Bruce Frantzis
Science Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds & Emergence of Spacetime by Sean Carroll; Lecture Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Chaos by James Gleick The Elegant Universe & Secrets Of The Universe by Brian Greene At Home in the Universe Stuart Kaufman YouTube The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe by Stephon Alexander A Brief History of Time by Steven Hawking Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality by Anil Seth; Consciousness and the Self Deep Learning Ch1 Ch2 Ch3 Ch4 The math behind cryptocurrencies Sean Carroll Interviews with great scientists: Carlo Rovelli; Kip Thorne; Roger Penrose; Brian Greene; David Albert; Leonard Susskind; Max Tegmark; David Baltimore; Robin Carhart-Harris; Sara Imari Walker; Janna Levin; Patricia Churchland; Melanie Mitchell; Coleen Murphy; Cailin O’Connor; César Hidalgo; Malcolm MacIver; David Poeppel Veritasium ; 3Blue1Brown
Dance Dance Theory and History: The King Who Invented Ballet; Ballet's Secret Code; Diaghilev; Serge Lifar; Balanchine; Turns Jumps Jumps&Tours; Martha Graham: A Dancer’s World Technique; Dance Rebels Ballet: Baryshnikov ; Sergei Polunin D1 D2 ; Vaganova Academy: Exam 1 Exam 2 Future Prince of Ballet Future Prince 2 Little Swans; Bolshoi; Xander Parish; How Beauty is Born; Ballet Closure; Top Ballet Dancers: Male Female Female2 ; Svetlana Zakharova; Ballerina with Alzheimer’s hears swan lake Eclectic: Thousand Hands of Buddha; Moon; Peacock Dance; Beauty in motion; Pilobolus; Yana Kremneva ; Justice; Grupo Corpo: 21 & Parabelo Young Energy: Electro Swing D1 D2 D3 ; Brian Friedman ; Mary J Lee ; Nika Kljun; Jojo Gomez; Quick Crew; Best Powermoves Sets 1 song, different choreographers: Series 1: Nika Kljun Kyle Hanagami ; Series 2: Nicole Kirkland JoJo Gomez Pussycat Dolls
Martial Arts Male: Top 20 Exciting Knockouts in the History of MMA ; Top 20 MMA Knockouts; Most Creative Knockouts; BEST UFC KNOCKOUTS OF 2021; Top 20 MMA Submissions; Sumo wrestling 1; Incredible Sumo; All of Mike Tyson Knockouts; Muay Thai vs. Kickboxing Female: Paige VanZant Fighting: Montage 1 Montage 2; Paige VanZant Dancing: Dance 1 Dance 2 Dance 3 Valentina Shevchenko & Valentina 2 ; Top 30 Knockouts; Relentless; Holm vs. Rousey; Top 25 Finishes:1-15 16-25
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The influence of Postmodernism on society The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker YouTube Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay; Podcast Interview Political Correctness and Postmodernism; The Queen's University Talk Explaining Postmodernism by Stephen Hicks YouTube Lecture Lecture 2 Lecture 3 Lecture 4 Fools, Frauds and Firebrands by Roger Scruton YTube Lecture
Far out, Insightful, Strange, Disturbing 25000 Feet With No Parachute Ant War ; More ant wars ; Spider Dances for His Life!!; Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga; Hunter S. Thompson meets a Hell's Angel; Hunter S. Thompson The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe ; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll Junky by William S. Burroughs ; Podcasts: Heroin, the Opioid Epidemic, and Dreamland ; Narconomics Tales of Ordinary Madness (DO NOT READ if you are overly sensitive or easily offended); Reading; Documentary American Juggalo (DO NOT WATCH if you are overly sensitive or easily offended) What makes Ringo a Great Drummer Studio 54 MASS PSYCHOSIS - How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL After Skool Afghanistan: the Great Game Part I Part II 9 Muses Of Star Empire Tapped Out: Rear Naked Chokes, the Octagon, and the Last Emperor: An Odyssey in Mixed Martial Arts (Watch the fight)
Interesting Views of China I-Ching Translation 1 (best starting point) 2 3 ; Tao Te Ching Alan Watts Alan Watts 1 The Man Who Stayed Behind American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China Madame Mao: The White-Boned Demon Cinema + Series: To Live ; Farewell My Concubine ; Xiu Xiu ; Mao’s Last Dancer ; Youth ; The Last Emperor ; Hero ; Fearless IP Man (1-4) + Master Z ; Xuan Zang ; The Sword of Destiny ; The Princess Weiyoung ; The Rise of Phoenixes ; The Legend of Fuyao
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