#462 - Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #462:

  1. Abundance by Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson
  2. Why We’re Polarized by Ezra Klein
  3. Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction by Derek Thompson
  4. On Work: Money, Meaning, Identity by Derek Thompson
  5. Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer by Kamala Harris, Joan O’C. Hamilton
  6. The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities by Mancur Olson
  7. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt

Ezra Klein is an American liberal political commentator and journalist. He is currently a New York Times columnist and the host of The Ezra Klein Show podcast. He is a co-founder of Vox and formerly was the website’s editor-at-large. Wikipedia

Derek Kahn Thompson is an American podcaster and journalist. A self-described progressive, he is a staff writer at The Atlantic, the author of Hit Makers: How to Succeed in an Age of Distraction, and the co-author of Abundance. Wikipedia


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