#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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#333 – Andrej Karpathy

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #333:

  1. The Vital Question: Why Is Life The Way It Is by Nick Lane
  2. Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution by Nick Lane
  3. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  4. Contact by Carl Sagan

Andrej Karpathy is a computer scientist, engineer and AI researcher. He is the former Sr. Director of AI and Autopilot Vision at Tesla. He teaches at Stanford an a founding member of OpenAI.


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#332 – Kanye 'Ye' West

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #332:

  1. The Bible

Ye formerly known as Kanye West is a musician, rapper, producer, and designer.


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#331 – Balaji Srinivasan

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #331:

  1. The Network State: How To Start a New Country by Balaji Srinivasan
  2. Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA by Daniel Carpenter
  3. Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States by Albert O. Hirschman
  4. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott

Balaji Srinivasan is an entrepreneur and angel investor, co-founder of Counsyl, former the CTO of Coinbase.


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#330 – Hikaru Nakamura

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #330:

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Hikaru Nakamura chess grandmaster, one of the top chess streamers on Twitch and YouTube.


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#329 – Kate Darling

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #329:

  1. The New Breed: What Our History with Animals Reveals about Our Future with Robots by Kate Darling

Kate Darling is a researcher at MIT Media Lab interested in legal and ethical implications of technology.

Other appearances: #98


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#328 – John Danaher

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #328:

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John Danaher is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu and mixed martial arts instructor and coach from New Zealand. He is widely regarded as one of the best instructors and coaches in these sports. Wikipedia)

Other appearances: #182, #260


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#327 – GothamChess

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #327:

  1. Game Changer: AlphaZero’s Groundbreaking Chess Strategies and the Promise of AI by Matthew Sadler, Natasha Regan
  2. Playing the Caro-Kann: A Counter-Attacking Repertoire by Lars Schandorff

Levy Rozman aka Gotham Chess is a professional chess player, chess teacher and streamer.


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#326 – Annaka Harris

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #326:

  1. Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind by Annaka Harris
  2. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer
  3. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
  4. The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  5. Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
  6. The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes by Donald Hoffman
  7. Spooky Action at a Distance: The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time—and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everything by George Musser

Annaka Harris is an author, editor and consultant for science writers, specializing in neuroscience, meditation, mind, consciousness andphysics.


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