#343 – Roger Gracie

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #343:

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Roger Gracie is a Brazilian retired mixed martial artist and former professional Brazilian jiu-jitsu competitor. Wikipedia

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#342 – Todd Howard

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #342:

1. The Tetris Effect: The Game that Hypnotized the World by Dan Ackerman

Todd Andrew Howard is an American video game designer, director, and producer. He serves as director and executive producer at Bethesda Game Studios, where he has led the development of the Fallout and The Elder Scrolls series. Wikipedia

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#341 – Guido van Rossum

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #341:

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Guido van Rossum is a Dutch programmer best known as the creator of the Python programming language, for which he was the “benevolent dictator for life” until he stepped down from the position on 12 July 2018. Wikipedia

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#340 – Chris Tarbell

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #340:

1. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder

Christopher Tarbell is a Former FBI agent and cyber security expert who took on Anonymous and Silk Road.

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#339 – Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #339 Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin:

1. False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet by Bjorn Lomborg
2. The Human Planet: Earth at the Dawn of the Anthropocene by George Steinmetz, Andrew Revkin
3. The North Pole Was Here: Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World by Andrew Revkin
4. Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast by Andrew Revkin
5. The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels by Alex Epstein
6. Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas – Not Less by Alex Epstein
7. The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

Bjørn Lomborg is a Danish author and president of the think tank Copenhagen Consensus Center. He is former director of the Danish government’s Environmental Assessment Institute in Copenhagen. He became internationally known for his best-selling and controversial book The Skeptical Environmentalist. Wikipedia

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Andrew C. Revkin is an American science and environmental journalist, author and educator. He has written on a wide range of subjects including destruction of the Amazon rain forest, the 2004 Asian tsunami, sustainable development, climate change, and the changing environment around the North Pole. Wikipedia

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#338 – Chamath Palihapitiya

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #338:

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Chamath Palihapitiya (@chamath) is a venture capitalist, engineer, SPAC sponsor, founder and CEO of Social Capital. Palihapitiya was an early senior executive at Facebook, working at the company from 2007 to 2011. Wikipedia

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#337 – Destiny

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #337:

1. The Humans by Matt Haig

Steven Kenneth Bonnell II, known online as Destiny, is an American live-streamer and political commentator. He was among the first people to stream video games online full-time and received attention as a pioneer of the industry. Wikipedia

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#336 – Ben Shapiro

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #336:

1. The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America’s Institutions Against Dissent by Ben Shapiro
2. The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, Clinton Rossiter, Charles R. Kessler
3. Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics by Henry Hazlitt
4. Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
5. The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution by Carl R. Trueman

#335 – Fiona Hill

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #335:

1. Young James Herriot by John Lewis-Stempel
2. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
3. Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union by Vladislav Zubok

Fiona Hill is a foreign affairs specialist specializing in Russian and European affairs and author.

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#334 – Abbas Amanat

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #334:

1. Iran: A Modern History by Abbas Amanat

Abbas Amanat is a historian, author and professor. He serves as the William Graham Sumner Professor of History at Yale University and specializing in the modern history of Iran.

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