#298 – Susan Cain

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #298:

  1. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
  2. Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain
  3. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  4. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

Susan Horowitz Cain is an American writer and lecturer. She is the author of the 2012 non-fiction book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, which argues that modern Western culture misunderstands and undervalues the traits and capabilities of introverted people. Wikipedia


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#297 – Jonathan Reisman

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #297:

  1. The Unseen Body: A Doctor’s Journey Through the Hidden Wonders of Human Anatomy by Jonathan Reisman
  2. Mountains Beyond Mountains: Healing the World: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer by Tracy Kidder

Jonathan Reisman is a physician and author of The Unseen Body who has practiced medicine in some of the most remote places in the world.


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#296 – Douglas Murray

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #296:

  1. The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam by Douglas Murray
  2. The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murray
  3. The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason by Douglas Murray
  4. The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
  5. Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
  6. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer
  7. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  8. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  9. The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley
  10. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  11. September 1, 1939 by W. H. Auden
  12. High Windows by Philip Larkin
  13. The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig

Douglas Kear Murray is a British author and political commentator. He founded the Centre for Social Cohesion in 2007, which became part of the Henry Jackson Society, where he was associate director from 2011 to 2018. Wikipedia


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#295 – Richard Wolff

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #295:

  1. Economics by Paul A. Samuelson
  2. Class Theory and History: Capitalism and Communism in the USSR by Stephen A. Resnick, Richard D. Wolff

Richard David Wolff is an American Marxian economist known for his work on economic methodology and class analysis. He is a professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a visiting professor in the graduate program in international affairs of the New School. Wikipedia


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#294 – Tony Fadell

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #294:

  1. Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell
  2. Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting by Robert McKee

Anthony Michael Fadell is an American engineer, designer, entrepreneur, and investor. He was senior vice president of the iPod division at Apple Inc. and founder and former CEO of Nest Labs. Fadell joined Apple Inc. in 2001 and oversaw all iPod hardware, software, and accessories development. Wikipedia


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#293 – Donald Hoffman

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #293:

  1. The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes by Donald D. Hoffman
  2. Vision: A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information by David Marr

Donald David Hoffman is an American cognitive psychologist and popular science author. He is a professor in the Department of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine Wikipedia


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#292 – Robin Hanson

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #292:

  1. The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life by Kevin Simler, Robin Hanson
  2. The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth by Robin Hanson

Robin Hanson is a professor at George Mason University and researcher at Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford.


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#291 – Jonathan Haidt

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #291:

  1. The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Jonathan Haidt
  2. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
  3. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt
  4. iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy — and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood and What That Means for the Rest of Us by Jean M. Twenge
  5. Free-Range Kids: How Parents and Teachers Can Let Go and Let Grow by Lenore Skenazy
  6. The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure by Yascha Mounk
  7. The Turner Diaries by Andrew Macdonald
  8. The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium by Martin Gurri

Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist at NYU and author of The Coddling of the American Mind, The Righteous Mind, and The Happiness Hypothesis.


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#290 – Dan Reynolds

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #290:

  1. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer

Daniel Coulter Reynolds is an American singer and songwriter. He is the lead vocalist of the pop rock band Imagine Dragons. Reynolds also released an EP in 2011, titled Egyptian – EP, as a duo with his former wife Aja Volkman under the moniker Egyptian. Wikipedia


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#289 – Stephen Kotkin

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #289:

  1. Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 by Stephen Kotkin
  2. Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 by Stephen Kotkin

Stephen Mark Kotkin is an American historian, academic, and author. He is currently the Kleinheinz Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Wikipedia

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