If Books Could Kill

Written by: Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri
  • Summary

  • The airport bestsellers that captured our hearts and ruined our minds
    © 2024 If Books Could Kill
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Episodes
  • Sam Harris's "The End of Faith"
    Nov 4 2024

    Peter and Michael discuss the book that launched the phenomenon of New Atheism and asked the question: What if we hated Muslims, but in a secular way?

    Where to find us:

    • Peter's other podcast, 5-4
    • Mike's other podcast, Maintenance Phase

    Sources:

    • Views of Violence
    • Carnival Booth: An Algorithm for Defeating the Computer-Assisted Passenger Screening System
    • The same motive for anti-US 'terrorism' is cited over and over
    • Does intuitive mindset influence belief in God?
    • Terrorism science: 5 insights into jihad in Europe
    • Analytic cognitive style predicts religious and paranormal belief
    • What Is "Islamophobia"?
    • Essays In Defense of Profiling
    • To Profile or Not to Profile
    • Chapter 2 The Making of Jihadist Social Actors in Europe in
    • Who are the new jihadis?
    • Disbelief - Prometheus Books
    • God and the Ivory Tower
    • Religion’s evolutionary landscape: Counterintuition, commitment, compassion, communion
    • The Evolution of Religion: How Cognitive By-Products, Adaptive Learning Heuristics, Ritual Displays, and Group Competition Generate
    • Talking to the Enemy

    Thanks to Mindseye for our theme song!

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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Who Moved My Cheese?
    Oct 10 2024

    What should workers do when they get laid off? In 1998 a bleak, asinine bestseller told them to find another whey.

    Where to find us:

    • Peter's other podcast, 5-4
    • Mike's other podcast, Maintenance Phase

    Sources:

    • Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America
    • Downsizing in America
    • Temp: How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporary
    • The Disposable American
    • Spencer Johnson, ‘Who Moved My Cheese?’ Author, Dies at 78
    • What was the New Economy?
    • Boss, Employees Share Large Cheese Platter
    • Tarpon's big cheese has aides reading
    • Why doesn’t downsizing deliver?
    • On the Battlefields of Business, Millions of Casualties
    • Shareholder Value and Workforce Downsizing, 1981-2006
    • Long-Term Earnings Losses Due to Job Separation During the 1982 Recession
    • Does Employee Downsizing Really Work?
    • Layoffs, Top Executive Pay, and Firm Performance
    • Emerging Conceptions of Work, Management and the Labor Market
    • A Conceptual Framework for Analyzing Why Organizations Downsize
    • Organizational Downsizing: Constraining, Cloning, Learning
    • The Decline and Fall of the Conglomerate Firm in the 1980s

    Thanks to Mindseye for our theme song!

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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • UNLOCKED: Eric Adams
    Sep 26 2024

    New York’s favorite criminal is in the news, so here is our episode about his ridiculous life.

    To hear all of our bonus episodes, support us on Patreon:
    https://www.patreon.com/IfBooksPod

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    59 mins

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Always enjoyable.

I love the way the differerent perspectives make me think of things differently. Fast paced and thoughtful.

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Good in Theory

These two have a good idea, Someone should review the self- help books. I'm sure there are a lot good criticism and some good humor, but that person should be someone we can learn from.

These two are not that person. They swear constantly. They show you nothing to be admired. They go out of their way to show that they are no better than the average man in the street. (Perhaps more like the man in the gutter. )

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