#248 – Norman Naimark

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #248:

1. The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
2. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

#247 – Jamie Metzl

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #247:

1. Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity by Jamie Metzl
2. Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19 by Matt Ridley, Alina Chan
3. The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order by Rush Doshi
4. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
5. Thanks A Thousand: A Gratitude Journey by A. J. Jacobs

#246 – Peter Woit

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #246:

1. Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law by Peter Woit
2. Quantum Theory, Groups and Representations: An Introduction by Peter Woit
3. Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality by Edward Frenkel
4. The Second Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics by Robert P. Crease, Charles C. Mann
5. Books by Werner Heisenberg

#245 – Tom Brands

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #245:

1. Wrestling Tough by Mike Chapman

#244 – Robert Crews

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #244:

1. For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia by Robert D. Crews
2. Afghan Modern: The History of a Global Nation by Robert D. Crews
3. Icons of Dissent: The Global Resonance of Che, Marley, Tupac and Bin Laden by Jeremy Prestholdt

#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.

• https://x.com/bsofman
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/bsofman

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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