Recommends Mike Shellenberger's San Fransicko.

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…My quick one is the second book that I read on vacation, which is Open by Andre Agassi. His co-writer or ghostwriter, I don't know the right term, but it's the same Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who helped Phil Knight with Shoe Dog, and it is written on that same page-turning thriller-style. Andre Agassi had an unbelievable career—ups, downs. Shout out to friends of the show, Jeremy over at Tiny and David [...] who at Capital Camp recommended the book to me, but it was just awesome. I highly recommend it. I've not been reading enough and I owe a friend at Apple a read of his new book, which is this first novel. This is kind of negative, but I think it's important. Mike Shellenberger's San Fransicko is worth reading if you're from the Bay Area longtime like I've been because it ain't good. I remember much better decades in San Francisco and help come back somehow, but Mike diagnoses it pretty directly. I also would recommend an old book that a friend, who only reads old books, recommended to me which you can find a free copy online like LibGen, you can get it, it's called Dynamic Economics by Burton Klein. If you've never heard of Burton Klein, Burton Klein looked at how firms grow and how they start. [...] the skunkworks projects, he actually looked at Kelly Martin's team. He looked at the traitorous eight at Fairchild. He looked at the China Lake Sidewinder, the first practical heat-seeking missile development. He made some killer observations about structure, sociology, anthropology, hierarchy, about how firms go from innovation, to rent-seeking, to outright vampiric badness. He had four kinds of firms. Anyway, Burton Klein, Dynamic Economics. It's an oldie, but underappreciated and still very much relevant. I wonder if I should give Elon Musk a pointer. Brendan, thank you so much for the time. We're going to let you run. Where can listeners find you on the internet and Brave on the internet?…

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