The Checklist Manifesto

This book by Atul Gawande has been genuinely recommended 2 times on Tim Ferriss. The people who vouched for it on air: Jason Calacanis, Sam Corcos. It comes up in conversations about addiction & recovery, consciousness, productivity & performance, psychedelics. The earliest recommendation we indexed is from Nov 2022 and the most recent from Sep 2023. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

Reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist now being used in medicine, aviation, the armed services, homeland security, investment banking, skyscraper construction, and businesses of all kinds.

• “Something like The Checklist Manifesto would be a really good choice for that, where it's just thinking about process.”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “Something like The Checklist Manifesto would be a really good choice for that”
  Sam Corcos · The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 202300:08:18

  Said during "Ultimate Guide to Managing Executive Assistants and Delegating Like a Pro, Sam Corcos (4K)". The episode features Sam Corcos: Co-founder and CEO of Levels (continuous glucose monitoring company); remote-first operator who has worked with the same executive assistant, Lori, for 10 years and now uses four EAs personally. Levels CEO Sam Corcos gives Tim Ferriss a tactical guide to delegation, async work with EAs, and calendar-based time management.

• “there's this book, The Checklist Manifesto, you and I are obsessed with, probably part of our kinship”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “you and I are obsessed with; And I make everybody read it, I'm obsessed with checklists”
  Jason Calacanis · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 202200:02:19

  Said during "Jason Calacanis on Brooklyn Grit, Big Asks, The Magic of Thinking Big, and More". The episode features Jason Calacanis: Angel investor (300+ startups), Sequoia's first scout, author of Angel, and host of the This Week in Startups and All-In podcasts. Jason Calacanis tells Tim Ferriss his rise from a Brooklyn bar to media and venture success, plus the craft behind All-In.