#236 – Jimmy Pedro

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #236:

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James A. Pedro is an American retired World Championship and Olympic judoka and current judo coach. Pedro currently holds a 7th degree black belt in judo. He is the coach of Kayla Harrison, the first American ever to win an Olympic gold medal in judo. Wikipedia

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#235 – Michael Mina

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Michael Mina is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author. He is the founder of the Mina Group, a restaurant management company operating over 40 restaurants worldwide. Wikipedia

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#234 – Stephen Wolfram

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #234:

1. A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram
2. Postsingular by Rudy Rucker

#233 – Carl Hart

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #233:

1. Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear by Carl Hart
2. High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society by Carl Hart

#232 – Brian Greene

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #232:

1. Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe by Brian Greene
2. What is Life? by Erwin Schrodinger
3. The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
4. On the Road by Jack Kerouac

#231 – Alex Gladstein

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #231:

1. The Case For Democracy: The Power Of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny And Terror by Natan Sharansky, Ron Dermer
2. The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen
3. The Fear by Peter Godwin
4. The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 by Lionel Shriver
5. The Internet of Money by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
6. The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking by Saifedean Ammous
7. The Little Bitcoin Book: Why Bitcoin Matters for Your Freedom, Finances, and Future by Timi Ajiboye, Luis Buenaventura, Lily Liu, Alexander Lloyd, Alejandro Machado, Jimmy Song, Alena Vranova, Alex Gladstein
8. The Blocksize War: The Battle Over Who Controls Bitcoin’s Protocol Rules by Jonathan Bier
9. Saturday by McEwan Ian

#230 – Kelsi Sheren

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #230:

1. Do the F*cking Work: Lowbrow Advice for High-Level Creativity by Brian Buirge, Jason Bacher, Jason Richburg
2. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

#229 – Richard Wrangham

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #229:

1. On Aggression by Konrad Lorenz
2. Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
3. The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution by Richard Wrangham
4. Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham

#228 – RZA

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #228:

1. The Qur’an

#227 – Sean Kelly

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #227:

1. Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
2. The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
3. All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age by Hubert Dreyfus
4. Parallel Models of Associative Memory: Updated Edition by Geoffrey E. Hinton, James A. Anderson
5. Moby-Dick: The Whale by Herman Melville
6. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
7. The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway