#243 – Kevin Systrom

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #243:

1. Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice by Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, David S. Duncan

#242 – Ben Askren

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #242:

1. The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How. by Daniel Coyle

#241 – Boris Sofman

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #241:

No books mentioned.

Boris Sofman is the Senior Director Of Engineering and Head of Trucking at Waymo, formerly the Google Self-Driving Car project. He was also the CEO and co-founder of Anki, a home robotics company.

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#240 – Neal Stephenson

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #240:

1. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
2. The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson
3. Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson
4. The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
5. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
6. Have Space Suit, Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein
7. Gravitation by Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, John Archibald Wheeler
8. The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe by Roger Penrose
9. The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch

#239 – Niall Ferguson

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #239:

1. The Age of AI: And Our Human Future by Henry A Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Daniel Huttenlocher
2. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
3. Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society by Nicholas A. Christakis
4. Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson
5. The Pity Of War: Explaining World War I by Niall Ferguson
6. The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Battle to End the Great War, 1916-1917 by Philip D. Zelikow
7. Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist by Niall Ferguson
8. Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic by Scott Gottlieb
9. The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook by Niall Ferguson
10. The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz

#238 – Francis Collins

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #238:

1. The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief by Francis S. Collins

#237 – Steve Viscelli

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #237:

1. The Big Rig: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream by Steve Viscelli

#236 – Jimmy Pedro

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #236:

No books mentioned.

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

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #235:

No books mentioned.

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