The End of October

This book by Lawrence Wright was genuinely recommended once in the episodes we index, on Tim Ferriss. The people who vouched for it on air: Brad Feld. It comes up in conversations about depression & mood, relationships. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

"IAt an internment camp in Indonesia, within one week, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When the microbiologist and epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will soon have staggering repercussions across the globe: an infected man is on his way to join the millions of worshippers in the annual Hajj to Mecca. Now, Henry joins forces with a Saudi doctor and prince in an attempt to quarantine the entire host of pilgrims in the holy city. Matilda Nachinsky, deputy director of U. S.

• “it's a book called the end of october it's written by a guy named lawrence wright and it came out in april of this year ... it is so good”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “it is so good and so terrifying and so real on so many levels”
  Brad Feld · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jul 202001:48:21

  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.