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The Jesse Mecham Show

Books I've Read - The "General" Shelf

The Jesse Mecham Show

YNAB

Kids & Family, Education

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

By popular request, Jesse scans though his office bookshelf and discusses the books he's read recently... and, well, some that he hasn't but is getting around to!

 

This week he covers books in the "general" category, basically anything that isn't specifically about business. Next week he will cover the books on his business shelf.

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, Wineabers. My name is Jesse Meekim and this is podcast number 442 for Wineb,

0:09.4

where we teach you full rules to help you stop them paycheck to paycheck, get out of debt and save more money.

0:13.8

Today I'm going to take a slight diversion because I've been asked more often recently,

0:20.0

maybe because people have been shut inside and they're reading more.

0:24.0

But I've been asked what books I'd recommend.

0:26.6

And so I thought I would do two episodes, one today, one next week.

0:30.0

Books I've read and I'm looking to my right, so I got to make sure I stay on the mic a little bit but I'm looking to my right

0:36.2

at what I call the general shelf and of course it's in alphabetical order because I'm not insane

0:41.4

okay and if you have it in any other way, it's weird.

0:45.0

I'm not the weird one, you're the weird one.

0:47.0

Who would have their books just randomly strewn about?

0:50.0

So I'm here at the general shelf. We'll start with A because that's where you would start at the far left because I read left to right.

0:57.0

So my first book and I've talked about this one a lot before so we won't talk about it too much at all. These books are the

1:03.9

books that I want to read think I should read or have read and think are worth

1:07.8

keeping. I read mostly you know books I can hold my hand but if I'm traveling I'll pick up

1:13.9

Kindle versions so I can carry him then of course I don't travel anymore so who cares

1:18.3

about that anyway so I'm looking at my heart you you know, my actual shelf here.

1:22.6

Okay, antifragual by Nacim Tuleb,

1:26.2

one of my favorite books that I've read in the last decade,

1:28.6

teaches you about how to think through systems that get stronger because they're stressed, not just that

1:35.6

they're strong and don't break. A fragile thing breaks when it's stressed. A strong

1:39.7

thing maybe doesn't break when it's stressed, but an anti-f fragile thing gets stronger

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