Charles Duhigg
Guest on My First Million · Guest on This American Life
Charles Duhigg is an American journalist and bestselling non-fiction author known for his work on the science of habits, productivity, and communication. He is the author of The Power of Habit, Smarter Faster Better, and Supercommunicators, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for a series on Apple and other technology companies. A former New York Times reporter, he currently writes for The New Yorker and speaks widely on behavior change and performance.
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In Cold Blood👍 Recommends
…charles duhigg discussing his practice of buying classic literature and journalism
“So I buy old copies of magazines. I just bought In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, right? Which kind of created the true crime genre. Yeah. One of my favorites. Yeah. It's wonderful. I found a copy of the original New Yorker magazine that it was printed in and I bought it online from eBay.”
on My First Million
Inside the Box👍 Recommends
…charles duhigg recommending david epstein's book on how constraints enhance creativity
“So David Epstein, as I mentioned, he has a new book coming out called Inside the Box, which is about how constraints actually make us better. That like when we have constraints around us, when we have fewer resources than we need, when we create artificial limits for ourselves, it actually pushes us to be more creative, to be more productive.”
on My First Million
Voidstar👍 Recommends
…charles duhigg recommending voidstar as a novel exploring artificial intelligence
“So there's a couple of them. There's this book named Voidstar. It's actually a novel and it came out like seven or eight years ago and it's written by a computer scientist. It's about AI. And first of all, it's just a great novel. It's like, it's just fun to read, particularly because we're living through this age of AI. He is the first writer I've encountered who tries to actually get inside an AI's head.”
on My First Million