#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
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#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
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#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
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#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
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#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

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #235:

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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
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#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
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#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
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#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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