Achim triumphantly returns from holiday and brings with him a 17yo LinkedIn celebrity and entrepreneur prodigy who loves reading, Yurui Zi. He then drops his take on The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K, while BFL disagrees (yet again) with Goodreads reviewers on Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. Yurui bravely states his preference for non-fiction over fiction in the same room as Achim and BFL who are both avid fiction readers. Before the conversation turns into a fistfight, they find some common ground talking about Dune, stoicism, and high school English classes.

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Books mentioned

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness by Eric Jorgenson

On Women by Susan Sontag

More To That by Lawrence Yeo (blog)

Dune by Frank Herbert

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

The Sandman by Neil Gaiman

Chapters

00:00 Intro

01:00 Yurui intro

02:05 Achim reading update

10:25 BFL reading update

19:05 Yurui prefers non-fiction

29:47 Dune

37:05 Marcus Aurelius and stoicism

39:30 How Yurui got into business

44:20 High school English

51:05 Bloopers

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