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How Claude Shannon Invented The Future
- ▶ 19:26 David Senra And so let's get into how Bush applies this idea to Shannon.
The Merchant Bankers
- ▶ 19:56 David Senra There, there's a great line about this in, uh, Ben Franklin's, uh, autobiography actually. 2 times in the scene
Joseph Pulitzer: The Inventor of Mass Media
- ▶ 11:10 David Senra And so this reminded me a lot of, if you read biographies of Ben Franklin, 2 times in the scene
How Elon Works
- ▶ 1:21:46 David Senra And the way I did that is I read a lot of biographies and he starts naming off the biographies, Ben Franklin, Henry Ford, Nikola Tesla, et cetera.
Steve Jobs In His Own Words (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 1:04:01 David Senra Quote from Ben Franklin.
- ▶ 1:51:03 David Senra Goes back to Ben Franklin's quote.
400 Pages of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger In Their Own Words
- ▶ 1:14:59 David Senra I'm rereading a book I really like, which is Carl Van Doren's biography of Ben Franklin. 2 times in the scene
How To Sell Like Steve Jobs
- ▶ 24:54 David Senra Think about Ben Franklin.
Oprah In Her Own Words
- ▶ 35:42 David Senra I was reading like random Ben Franklin maxims and highlights the other day. 2 times in the scene
Charlie Munger (the NEW Poor Charlie's Almanack)
- ▶ 5:57 David Senra Ben, in his will, created two small philanthropic funds that were designed to teach the magic of compound interest.
- ▶ 24:18 David Senra Charlie's affinity for Benjamin Franklin's expansive career can be found in many speeches and whenever he holds an audience large or small.
- ▶ 1:06:51 David Senra Like Ben Franklin observed, it's hard for an empty sack to stand upright.
Listen to this when you’re stressed: The Life of Alistair Urquhart
- ▶ 8:32 David Senra I read this biography of George Washington and Ben Franklin. 3 times in the scene
Napoleon (The Mind of Napoleon)
- ▶ 16:59 David Senra It's this biography, this dual biography of Ben Franklin and George Washington.
Steve Jobs (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 1:02:46 David Senra Quote from Ben Franklin.
- ▶ 1:49:04 David Senra Goes back to Ben Franklin's quote.
Bernard Arnault (The Richest Man in the World)
- ▶ 10:32 David Senra So he's working in his dad's company, and he does something that, this is, if you listen to the episode, uh, episode two 95, titled I Had Dinner with Charlie Munger, something I got to talk personally with Charlie Munger about was this…
- ▶ 32:47 David Senra Relationships, relationships, relationships, and he's doing exactly what Ben Franklin, Andrew Carnegie, and Charlie Munger all did.
I had dinner with Charlie Munger
- ▶ 7:29 David Senra And Charlie and I talked about Ben Franklin, what Ben Franklin, Andrew Carnegie, and what we're going to see Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger had in common.
- ▶ 8:36 David Senra So one of the things that we were able to talk about all the way back on, um, episode two 51, I read this incredible biography of Ben Franklin and George Washington. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:53 David Senra Uh, we were talking a lot about Benjamin Franklin. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:11 David Senra By the age of eight, both Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin had permanent places on the bookshelf above his bed. 2 times in the scene
The Biography of Napoleon
- ▶ 28:16 David Senra It's called the founding, Ben Franklin and George Washington, the founding partnership, or Franklin and Washington, the founding, the founding partnership. 3 times in the scene
How Jay Gould Built Wall Street's Biggest Fortune
- ▶ 15:53 David Senra That's like you and I owning a bank, being able to, to distribute our own currency, and instead of putting like George Washington or Ben Franklin on it, we put our own face.
The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
- ▶ 5:16 David Senra Mellon, in turn, was influenced by the autobiography of Ben Franklin. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:17 David Senra You have Thomas Mellon saying, Hey, your book, Ben Franklin was so important to me that later in life, when I'm a rich man, because you motivated me to build wealth, to take risks, right?
What I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett
- ▶ 41:08 David Senra And then he quotes one of my heroes, Benjamin Franklin, who said the only place where fools may learn is the school of experience. 2 times in the scene
Paul Graham's Essays Part III
- ▶ 16:49 David Senra Benjamin Franklin learned to write by summarizing the points in the essays of Addison and Steele and then trying to reproduce them.
The Biography of Vannevar Bush (Engineer of the American Century)
- ▶ 4:40 David Senra It says he was the most politically powerful inventor in America since Benjamin Franklin. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:53 David Senra Remember this part because he's going to contrast the way people are being taught with what the education, the self-education from Leonardo da Vinci and Ben Franklin. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:26 David Senra Perhaps no inventor since Benjamin Franklin had exerted such a direct effect on American political life.
The Autobiography of Vannevar Bush
- ▶ 40:55 David Senra The whole history of the United States has been marked by that fact, from the days of Benjamin Franklin or Eli Whitney to our own.
The Biography of Thomas Edison
- ▶ 1:07:50 David Senra The reason he is important to study is because he was called the 20th century's Ben Franklin.