#276 – Michael Saylor

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #276:

  1. The Mobile Wave: How Mobile Intelligence Will Change Everything by Michael Saylor
  2. The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking by Saifedean Ammous
  3. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Michael J. Saylor is an American entrepreneur and business executive. He is the executive chairman and a co-founder of MicroStrategy, a company that provides business intelligence, mobile software, and cloud-based services. Saylor served as MicroStrategy’s chief executive officer from 1989 to 2022. Wikipedia


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#275 – Rick Rubin

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #275:

  1. Slow Burn: Burn Fat Faster by Exercising Slower by Stu Mittleman, Katherine Callan
  2. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall

Frederick Jay Rubin is an American record executive and record producer. He is the co-founder of Def Jam Recordings, founder of American Recordings, and former co-president of Columbia Records. Wikipedia


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#274 – Karl Deisseroth

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #274:

  1. Projections: A Story of Human Emotions by Karl Deisseroth
  2. Karamazov Brothers by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  3. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  4. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
  5. Two English Poems by Jorge Luis Borges

Karl Alexander Deisseroth is an American scientist. He is the D.H. Chen Professor of Bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University. Wikipedia


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#273 – Chris Blattman

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #273:

  1. Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace by Christopher Blattman

Christopher Blattman is a Canadian-American economist and political scientist working on conflict, crime, and international development. Wikipedia


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#272 – Brett Johnson

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #272:

  1. Holy Bible, King James Version

Brett Johnson was a US Most Wanted cybercriminal, called the Original Internet Godfather by US Secret Service for building the first organized cybercrime community called ShadowCrew, which was the precursor to today’s darknet and darknet markets.


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#271 – Ariel Ekblaw

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #271:

  1. Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
  2. Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery by Scott Kelly
  3. The New Breed: What Our History with Animals Reveals about Our Future with Robots by Kate Darling
  4. Into the Anthropocosmos: A Whole Space Catalog from the MIT Space Exploration Initiative by Ariel Ekblaw
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#270 – David Wolpe

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #270:

  1. The Torah
  2. Why Faith Matters by David J. Wolpe
  3. The Exodus by Richard Elliott Friedman
  4. The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
  5. Middlemarch by George Eliot
  6. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  7. Herzog by Saul Bellow
  8. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
  9. The Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel
  10. Books by Bertrand Russell
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#269 – Lee Cronin

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #269:

No books mentioned.

Lee Cronin is a chemist at the University of Glasgow.


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#268 – Robert Proctor

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #268:

  1. Racial Hygiene: Medicine under the Nazis by Robert N. Proctor
  2. The Nazi War on Cancer by Robert N. Proctor
  3. Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance by Robert N. Proctor, Londa Schiebinger
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#267 – Mark Zuckerberg

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #267:

No books mentioned.

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American business magnate, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is known for co-founding the social media website Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms, of which he is the executive chairman, chief executive officer, and controlling shareholder. Wikipedia

Other appearances: #383, #398


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