James Joyce
Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)
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Videos Mentioning James Joyce
Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #484
Lex Fridman
Author referenced in the discussion of literary influence and writing craft.
Glenn Loury: Race, Racism, Identity Politics, and Cancel Culture | Lex Fridman Podcast #285
Lex Fridman
The great Irish writer of the 20th century whose work 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' is quoted by Loury to advise young people against being limited by their ethnic inheritance.
Sean Kelly: Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #227
Lex Fridman
An Irish novelist, mentioned in discussion about the importance of deeply knowing a culture and language to understand literature, drawing on the host's experience with Joyce's works.
Barry Barish: Gravitational Waves and the Most Precise Device Ever Built | Lex Fridman Podcast #213
Lex Fridman
An Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, and literary critic, widely considered one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, whose short stories were good but whose longer works like 'Ulysses' and 'Finnegans Wake' were challenging for Lex Fridman.
Joyce Carol Oates — A Writing Icon on Creative Process and Creative Living | The Tim Ferriss Show
Tim Ferriss
A writer mentioned as an example of surrealist writing who nonetheless believed in the beauty of the actual, allowing readers to walk through Dublin and experience the day of 'Ulysses'.
Bret Weinstein: Truth, Science, and Censorship in the Time of a Pandemic | Lex Fridman Podcast #194
Lex Fridman
Author of complex literary works; Lex Fridman mentions taking a course on James Joyce as an example of a 'useless' but valuable course.
Tyler Cowen on Rationality, COVID-19, Talismans, and Life on the Margins | The Tim Ferriss Show
Tim Ferriss
Irish novelist, whose 'Ulysses' is recommended by Tyler Cowen as a writer to read periodically to avoid taking rules too seriously.
Sheldon Solomon: Death and Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #117
Lex Fridman
Irish novelist, author of 'Ulysses' and 'Finnegans Wake', mentioned in the context of difficult literature, and also for his short stories like 'The Dead'.
Productivity Toolkit: How To Achieve Any Goal, Focus & Enter Flow State On Command | Cal Newport
Cal Newport
Author whose challenging work 'Ulysses' is used as an example of engaging with difficult material that requires a shift in mental mode and leads to profound learning.
Ben Shapiro: Politics, Kanye, Trump, Biden, Hitler, Extremism, and War | Lex Fridman Podcast #336
Lex Fridman
Irish novelist, mentioned as someone Andrew Miller, Shapiro's 11th-grade English teacher, studied with at Trinity College Dublin.
Debbie Millman Returns | The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast)
Tim Ferriss
The author of 'Ulysses', a line from which Debbie Millman uses as a personal quote about worthwhile endeavors taking time.
Cheryl Strayed Interview | The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast)
Tim Ferriss
Author of 'Ulysses', a line from which ('the longest way round is the shortest way home') Debbie Millman finds poetic and relates to her mantra that worthwhile things take time.
Jeff Kaplan: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard, and Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #493
Lex Fridman
A writer who, at a young age, declared he would be the greatest writer of the 20th century, inspiring discussion about ego in creative pursuits.