#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
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#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
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#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
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#228 – RZA

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #228:

  1. The Qur’an
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#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
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#226 – Jo Boaler

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #226:

  1. Limitless Mind: Learn, Lead, and Live Without Barriers by Jo Boaler
  2. Elastic: Unlocking Your Brain’s Ability to Embrace Change
  3. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
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#225 – Jeffrey Shainline

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #225:

  1. Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum by Lee Smolin
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#224 – Travis Oliphant

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #224:

  1. Guide to NumPy by Travis E. Oliphant
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#223 – Travis Stevens

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #223:

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Travis Stevens is an American judoka and Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner who competed in the 2008, 2012, and 2016 Summer Olympics. He competes in the men’s half-middleweight division. On August 9, 2016, Stevens became the third American male judoka to win a silver medal in the Olympics. Wikipedia


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#222 – Jay McClelland

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #222:

  1. Parallel Distributed Processing by David E. Rumelhart, James L. Mcclelland
  2. Explorations in Cognition by Donald A. Norman, David E. Rumelhart
  3. Cognitive Psychology by Ulric Neisser
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