Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos

This book by M. Mitchell Waldrop has been genuinely recommended 2 times on Tim Ferriss. The people who vouched for it on air: Brad Feld, Tim Ferriss. It comes up in conversations about brain health, depression & mood, relationships. The earliest recommendation we indexed is from Jul 2020 and the most recent from Mar 2023. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

• “The other is Complexity by Mitchell Waldrip, if I'm getting that pronunciation right.”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “why this book is so I think still to this day kind of exhilarating”
  Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Mar 202300:44:14

  Said during "Michael Mauboussin, How Great Investors Make Decisions | The Tim Ferriss Podcast". The episode features Michael Mauboussin: Head of Consilient Research on Counterpoint Global at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, longtime Columbia Business School adjunct finance professor, and author of investing classics including Think Twice, The Success Equation, More Than You Know, and Expectations Investing. Michael Mauboussin breaks down how great investors decide: base rates, wisdom of crowds, decision biases, and complex adaptive systems.

• “i read a book a book called complexity ... i remember laying on my couch ... reading that book and just sort of ... having my mind blown”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “reading that book and just sort of ... having my mind blown”
  Brad Feld · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jul 202002:10:40

  Said during "Brad Feld, The Art of Unplugging, Carving Your Own Path, and More! | The Tim Ferriss Show". The episode features Brad Feld: Early-stage investor and entrepreneur since 1987, co-founder of Foundry Group and Techstars, and author of multiple books in the Startup Revolution series. He is also an OCD/depression mental-health advocate, art collector, and 50-state marathon runner based in Boulder, Colorado. VC Brad Feld tells Tim Ferriss how unplugging rituals, therapy, and openness about depression sustained him through entrepreneurial chaos.