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Roll, Jordan, RollBook

by Eugene D. Genovese

Who uses, recommends or left Roll, Jordan, Roll, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Dean W. Ball
Writes Hyperdimensional, a newsletter on AI policy and governance. A White House AI policy adviser in 2025; joined OpenAI on 6 July 2026 to lead its Strategic Futures team.
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Uh Empire of Liberty by Gordon Wood, the book about the first uh uh 30 or so years of our republic, and Roll, Jordan, Roll by Eugene Genovese. Dean Ball, thank you very much. Thank you.

Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “Why the Pentagon Wants to Destroy Anthropic” (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-dean-ball.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.

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Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.