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Harvey Firestone: Men and Rubber [Outliers]
- ▶ 1:12:40 Shane Parrish You can go on Amazon now and look up Men in Rubber, Harvey Firestone, and you can get a copy in hardcover, in softcover, Audible, and in Kindle.
Charlie Hoehn: Write Something People Want to Read
- ▶ 20:38 Shane Parrish We're constantly doing Kindle revisions. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:55 Shane Parrish It's like they read 15% of a book, maybe 16% of a book, and they get all the stats from Kindle.
#197 Michaeleen Doucleff: The 4 Biggest Mistakes Parents Make
- ▶ 52:33 Shane Parrish And Kindle, like, he's on the Kindle all the time and it's attached to my account. 2 times in the scene
Morgan Housel: Get Rich, Stay Rich
- ▶ 1:17:34 Morgan Housel By the way, Kindle samples are free. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:34:46 Morgan Housel There was a mathematician who looked at Kindle highlight data, and he used highlights as a proxy for how far people make it in a book. 2 times in the scene
Tom Gayner: Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 1:31:56 Tom Gaynor I have a Kindle. 3 times in the scene
Blake Eastman: Learn to Read Anyone
- ▶ 1:12:23 Blake Eastman So I still try to like, I have like a Kindle connection where I just like highlight certain things because you highlight so much 2 times in the scene
TKP Insights: Learning and Thinking
- ▶ 53:49 Shane Parrish Do you read mostly in Kindle or physical books? 6 times in the scene
#88 Derek Sivers: Innovation Versus Imitation
- ▶ 43:30 Derek Sivers Tried getting it on Kindle, and I looked through it again, and it was just, it was like somebody telling you that water is wet and the sky is blue.
#63 Hugh Howey: Winning at the Self-publishing Game
- ▶ 58:10 Hugh Howey I finished my first novel, I think in, like, 2008 or 2009, and I think the Kindle came out the same year, just a bit after I'd written a book. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:42 Shane Parrish So any book, basically any Kindle 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:06 Shane Parrish What have you learned about pricing, uh, on the Kindle or electronic pricing in terms of selling books?
#39 Tyler Cowen: Thinking About Thinking
- ▶ 31:57 Shane Parrish Do you read mostly in Kindle or physical books? 7 times in the scene
#18 Naval Ravikant: The Angel Philosopher
- ▶ 6:06 Shane Parrish Is most of what you read today physical or on a computer or Kindle? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:15 Naval Ravikant Uh, I'll pull up my Kindle app as we talk. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:29 Naval Ravikant Uh, and then with the Kindle and iBooks coming along, that allowed me to start treating books like I treat blogs, which is, uh, when I go to a blog, I'll actually skim through lots of articles until I find one that looks really interesting.
- ▶ 1:13:38 Naval Ravikant So one thing I don't like to do, by the way, when I do my books on the Kindle, I skip two thirds of them.
#15 Samuel Arbesman: Future-Proof Your Knowledge
- ▶ 15:54 Shane Parrish While you were saying that, I had an interesting question pop in my mind, which is, as an author, you deliver ebooks, Kindle books. 2 times in the scene
#14 Morgan Housel: Reading, Writing, and Lifelong Learning
- ▶ 36:06 Morgan Housel Also, so I do all my reading in Kindle and I highlight passages that I think are interesting. 5 times in the scene
#4 Jason Zweig: Elevate Your Financial IQ
- ▶ 16:06 Shane Parrish Are you reading mostly on Kindle, or physical, or do you mix them?
#3 Sanjay Bakshi: Why Mental Models
- ▶ 0:55 Shane Parrish In this interview, we talk about a host of things, including why he prefers to read on a Kindle,
- ▶ 2:43 Sanjay Bakshi I have to persuade you to get into Kindle then. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:30 Shane Parrish So you, you, you purchase a Kindle book, you get it to your Kindle.
- ▶ 37:46 Shane Parrish Do you also integrate it into your courses, and how do you go about connecting the different ideas other than, um, you mentioned the Kindle search earlier, but how do you go about adding or refining, I guess, the mental models that you…
#1 Michael Mauboussin: When To Trust Your Gut
- ▶ 3:56 Shane Parrish And do you read on a Kindle? 2 times in the scene