#258 – Yann LeCun

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #258:

1. The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
2. Language and Learning: The Debate between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky by Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini (Editor)

#257 – Brian Keating

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #257:

1. Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science’s Highest Honor by Brian Keating
2. Into the Impossible: Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner: Lessons from Laureates to Stoke Curiosity, Spur Collaboration, and Ignite Imagination in Your Life and Career by Brian Keating
3. The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe by Steven Weinberg
4. The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
5. Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican by Galileo Galilei
6. Operations of The Geometric and Military Compass by Galileo Galilei
7. The Assayer by Galileo Galilei
8. Animal Farm by George Orwell
9. The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything by Michio Kaku

Brian Gregory Keating is an American cosmologist. He works on observations of the cosmic microwave background, leading the BICEP, POLARBEAR2 and Simons Array experiments. He received his PhD in 2000, and is a Distinguished Professor of Physics at University of California, San Diego since 2019. Wikipedia

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#256 – Yaron Brook and Yoram Hazony

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #256:

1. Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government by Yaron Brook, Don Watkins
2. Equal Is Unfair: America’s Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality by Don Watkins, Yaron Brook
3. The Virtue of Nationalism by Yoram Hazony
4. Conservatism: A Rediscovery by Yoram Hazony
5. Edmund Burke: The First Conservative by Jesse Norman
6. The Age Of Reason by Thomas Paine
7. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

#255 – Mark Normand

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #255:

1. The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker

#254 – Jay Bhattacharya

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #254:

No books mentioned.

Jayanta “Jay” Bhattacharya is an Indian American professor of medicine, economics, and health research policy at Stanford University. He is the director of Stanford’s Center for Demography and Economics of Health and Aging. His research focuses on the economics of health care. Wikipedia

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#253 – Michael Malice

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #253:

1. Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il by Michael Malice
2. The Anarchist Handbook by Michael Malice
3. The White Pill: A Tale of Good and Evil by Michael Malice
4. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
5. Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure by Rachel Fershleiser, Larry Smith
6. The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom by James Burnham
7. What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era by Peggy Noonan
8. The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
9. The Plague by Albert Camus
10. The Guillotine At Work Vol 1: The Leninist Counter-Revolution by Gregory Petrovich Maximoff
11. The Virtue of Nationalism by Yoram Hazony

#252 – Elon Musk

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #252:

1. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore
2. Britannica Concise Encyclopedia by Britannica Editors
3. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

#251 – Ray Dalio

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #251:

1. Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail by Ray Dalio

#250 – Peter Wang

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #250:

1. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
2. Lila by Robert M. Pirsig
3. Death from a Distance and the Birth of a Humane Universe: Human Evolution, Behavior, History, and Your Future by Paul M. Bingham, Joanne Souza
4. Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: Practical Programming for Total Beginners by Al Sweigart

#249 – Albert Bourla

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #249:

No books mentioned.

Albert Bourla is a Greek-American veterinarian and the chairman and chief executive officer of Pfizer, an American pharmaceutical company. He joined the company in 1993 and has held several executive roles across Pfizer’s divisions. Prior to becoming chief executive officer, Bourla served as chief operating officer. Wikipedia

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