Sam Schillace: recommendation

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…Great answer. Sam. What are two or three books that you've recommended most to other people? I like weird book. There's this book called Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, which is this very beautiful meditation on the nature of cities and the nature of Venice. And I read it the first time I was in Italy right after college, and it just blew all the circuits in my brain when I went to Venice, and so that was pretty cool. The other one I recommend to people with some caution is this very intense and disturbing book called The Wasp Factory by Ian Banks, which is probably the creepiest and hardest book I've ever read, but it's a very interesting psychological deep dive. So those are both fiction. If you're looking for business advice, I think the business advice one is probably, Where Good Ideas Come From, Steven Johnson. I really like that book. I think some of the stuff about the adjacent possible. I think it's an old book now, but I think it's pretty timely still. I think he had some good stuff in there. What is a favorite recent movie or TV show that you really enjoyed?…

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