
Founding president and CEO of New York Public Radio, which won ten Peabody Awards under her and took up podcasting early, then president of Bennington College; earlier at Sesame Workshop, NPR and Carnegie Hall.
Bennington College
New York Public Radio
6 books they recommend · 2 appearances
Twenty-six imaginative maps of New York City and the lives lived within it.
A novel setting Anna's ruinous affair against Levin's search for how to live.
Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Austen Allred, Sam Altman and 2 others
A biography of cancer, by a physician and oncologist.
Also recommended by: Andrew Chen, Bill Gates, Peter Attia
Tim Ferriss's book belongs on a personal-finance list not for its investment advice but for its income argument: the fastest way to reach financial independence may be redesigning how and where you work rather than cutting spending to the bone. The 'new rich' framework is deliberately provocative, and the specific tactics age poorly, but the income-side case remains underweighted in most FIRE writing.
Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Ev Williams and 19 others
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