Profits, Prophets, Coaches, and Kings
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Profits, Prophets, Coaches, and Kings has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including The Joe Rogan Experience. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
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Jared DiamondAmerican geographer, historian and author of "Guns, Germs, and Steel" and "Profits, Prophets, Coaches, and Kings"
Diamond says he writes his books by hand in pencil and finds his typed prose wordier than his handwritten prose.
“When I type it, I notice that my style is more wordy, whereas if I write it down, my style is more simplified and compressed”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2549 - Jared Diamond (Sep 3, 2026) · Listen from 48:40
Diamond says he is a lifelong technophobe who chose to study the gallbladder because it required no technical apparatus.
“I made my reputation as a physiologist with a gallbladder precisely because I could not build the ham radio”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2549 - Jared Diamond (Sep 3, 2026) · Listen from 42:05
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- The Joe Rogan Experience · 1 episode
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#2549 - Jared DiamondThe Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 3, 2026 · 2 h 34 min
Jared Diamond talks with Joe Rogan about leadership, the rise of world religions, the origins of writing, language, and cannibalism and Kuru in New Guinea.