book / likes
Vikings
“I really love Vikings. This is a Viking myth and history book, and it looks at a number of questions.”
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Ada Palmer
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What Ada said.
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01 / preference
You need to buy it in a big lot so that it matches, because people don’t want the paper to suddenly be a different color within their book.
“You need to buy it in a big lot so that it matches, because people don’t want the paper to suddenly be a different color within their book.”
- Speaker
- Ada Palmer
- Publisher
- Dwarkesh Podcast
02 / preference
Instead of feeling that reading about good men will make us good, we read about wise choices, and we imitate those choices.
“Instead of feeling that reading about good men will make us good, we read about wise choices, and we imitate those choices.”
- Speaker
- Ada Palmer
- Publisher
- Dwarkesh Podcast
03 / preference
I love bringing people to think about those contingent moments when a tiny decision, made by somebody often unfamous — and Voltaire’s father is not famous the way Voltaire is — nonetheless shapes enormous amounts of what comes after.
“I love bringing people to think about those contingent moments when a tiny decision, made by somebody often unfamous — and Voltaire’s father is not famous the way Voltaire is — nonetheless shapes enormous amounts of what comes after.”
- Speaker
- Ada Palmer
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
04 / preference
The Spanish Inquisition is a very separate thing from the other inquisitions that I work on in other regions. And I like to avoid using the word inquisition ever in the singular because it creates the illusion that there was an actual unified .
“The Spanish Inquisition is a very separate thing from the other inquisitions that I work on in other regions. And I like to avoid using the word inquisition ever in the singular because it creates the illusion that there was an actual unified .”
- Speaker
- Ada Palmer
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler