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

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Shane Parrish
Founder of Farnam Street (fs.blog) and host of The Knowledge Project podcast.
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And there’s one book called The Stopwatch Gang. And I was like, what’s this about? I pick it up and it’s about a bunch of bank robbers. And I was like, oh, this is awesome. This is my kind of book.

The Tim Ferriss Show, "Shane Parrish on Wisdom from Warren Buffett, Rules for Better Thinking, How to Reduce Blind Spots, The Dangers of Mental Models, and More (#695)"; asked why The Stopwatch Gang mattered to them; the book that got them reading as a child. The guest's own words in the transcript Tim Ferriss published on tim.blog.

2023-09-29·tim.blog ↗

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