Neuromancer

This book by William Gibson has been genuinely recommended 2 times on Tim Ferriss. The people who vouched for it on air: Brad Feld, Eric Schmidt. It comes up in conversations about depression & mood, productivity & performance, relationships. The earliest recommendation we indexed is from Jul 2020 and the most recent from Oct 2021. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

The first of William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy, Neuromancer is the classic cyberpunk novel. The winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer was the first fully-realized glimpse of humankind’s digital future, a shocking vision that has challenged our assumptions about our technology and ourselves, reinvented the way we speak and think, and forever altered the landscape of our imaginations. Henry Dorsett Case was the sharpest data-thief in the business, until vengeful former employees crippled his nervous system. But now a new and very mysterious employer recruits him for a last-chance run.

• “well, Neuromancer is particularly good. If you look at Seveneves, a Neal Stephenson book, it's an extraordinary composition”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “Neuromancer is particularly good”
  Eric Schmidt · The Tim Ferriss Show · Oct 202101:05:50

  Said during "Eric Schmidt, The Promises and Perils of AI, the Future of Warfare, Profound Revolutions, and More". The episode features Eric Schmidt: Former Google CEO and chairman (2001-2011) who scaled the company from startup to global leader. Technologist, philanthropist, former chair of the National Security Commission on AI, and co-author with Henry Kissinger and Daniel Huttenlocher of The Age of AI and Our Human Future. Eric Schmidt explains why AI rivals the Renaissance, the perils of AGI and AI-driven warfare, and how to coexist with machine intelligence.

• “neuromancer was first it was written in 1984 and if you read it today you kind of go ah whatever but if you read it ... it will blow your mind”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “these two books are important books ... it will blow your mind”
  Brad Feld · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jul 202001:41:06

  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.