Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away

This book by Annie Duke was genuinely recommended once in the episodes we index, on Tim Ferriss. The people who vouched for it on air: Ev Williams. It comes up in conversations about consciousness, meditation & mindfulness, psychedelics. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

• “There's a great book by the way by Andy Duke called quit which I highly recommend. Um and it's actually was part of the reason a couple years ago I stepped down from Medium”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “There's a great book by the way by Andy Duke called quit which I highly recommend”
  Ev Williams · The Tim Ferriss Show · Mar 202500:11:28

  Said during "Co-Founder of Blogger, Twitter, Medium, and Mozi, The Art of Pivoting, Strategic Quitting, and More". The episode features Ev Williams: Co-founder of Blogger, Twitter, Medium, and his current company Mosy; partner at Obvious Ventures. Started with a 1994 VHS tape teaching people how to use the internet. Ev Williams on strategic quitting, why greatness can't be planned, and building Mosy as an actual social network.