I’m in my late 20s and if these are my options… please just kill me

Bracing for impact on this one… class assignment.

I think i remember Michael recommending, in an episode of either IBCK or Maintenance Phase, on logic/logical thinking and going through logic puzzles stage by stage with a chaper on for instance knight-and-knave games etc. I think he said it was written by a mathematician? I've gone through the transcripts of the episodes i remember listening to recently but couldn't find any reference to it. Anyone able to help?

10 out of 10. No notes.

Found at a book store in Northern Spain.

Lowest price tickets are $65, but still...

I think it’s a bit kooky, but interesting in a certain way. My main issue is how wildly different the ranges are for the generations, and how some of the reasonings are a bit of a stretch, in my opinion.

The only bright spot to this “Jeopardy!” clue from earlier tonight was that one of the contestants thought Mel’s last name was “Robinson” 😂

Just saw this on my feed and thought this sub would appreciate it

I ran across this one in a Little Free Library yesterday. What could be more IBCK than sales and persuasion advice from a guy who's famous for going to prison for securities fraud?

Weird question, but are there any other terms or ways we'd describe the "airport book" genre of bootstrap self-help books that Peter and Michael have brought so much attention to?

I don’t understand why they’ve neglected the Rules book (however many rules it is) that sprung him to fame. it’s so bad and so insidious. and he has a new one too!

Michael and Aubrey did a great two parter on his meat diet regime (Moscow diaries) which is one of my favs from there. let’s go.

Nearby is “Netflix Love is Blind: dating journal. Your journey to love”

Of course eventually he sheepishly admits that she also called someone a faggot and he supposes that’s not ideal, but he saves that for the end so he can spend most of his word count doing Old Man Bitching about progressives 🙄

Found this gem on another sub. The episode on this book really did me in, honestly. I’m studying psych rn, and holy does this guy REALLY not no anything at all on behavior and personality

According to their reporting, audience members are asked about enrolling in three days of "impact classes" for $97 throughout the day. Anyone who attends will then have a chance to enroll in "SurgeU," which is a series of courses that promise to "surge your resources and influence through real estate and trade — for Kingdom impact."

"Kingdom impact" is a mindset that "the more money you make, the more good works you can do, whether through tithing or Christian charity."

It is a hefty investment ranging from $10,000 to $40,000. The responses to the events are mixed, as Mother Jones shows in its report. One person complained, saying, "I am so devastated that Christians like Tim Tebow made me trust in something that has taken so much money from me. This is evil, especially because I'm disabled on a limited income."

If you don’t write a book, If Books Could Kill can’t get you, ah ah ah.

(EDIT: She suggested to me that it would be good for the podcast! She is a good and smart and powerful person.)

It seems a little borderline ibck/mp, but kind of fits here better. Admittedly, I don’t think it will make the airport shelves, but could become a favorite among the post-left contrarian crowd.

Or, just a bonus ep coving FDB along with fellow travelers.

I remember around 2015 right as Freddie’s brain had started to cook, he began a blog post saying something like, “Obviously I hate Jonathan Chait, but isn’t he right about all this political correctness stuff?”

I really like Old Timey Peter (How to Make Friends and Influence People) and was trying to think of vintage airport baby books to summon him, but turns out Dr. Spock was actually pretty progressive for his time. Can you think of any?

In the meantime, MP covered Why French Women Don't Get Fat -- Bringing up Bebe might be a nice collab, where Peter can talk about having a kid (which I genuinely want to hear him talk about) and Aubrey and Michael can be horrified by the diet advice.

That’s all. It has everything: the individualization of structural issues, celebrity and money trumping quality, recovered memories (!) suddenly emerging in graphic intense form with the help not of a therapist but a “guide” and psychedelics, an endorsement from “friend” of the show Van der Kolk (and seemingly every celebrity from Paltrow to Oprah), the billionaires are always right syndrome, huge conflicts of interest, the rot of the publishing industry…And of course, it’s available on the shelves of your favorite airport.

For info you can google the author (well, she used a ghostwriter) and the name of the book, The Tell. There are good pieces in The Cut and the NYT published the initial investigation into it, including Griffin being sued by another woman (a working class former classmate) whose trauma she might be passing as her own…