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#255 – Mark Normand

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #255:

1. The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker

#254 – Jay Bhattacharya

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #254:

No books mentioned.

Jayanta “Jay” Bhattacharya is an Indian American professor of medicine, economics, and health research policy at Stanford University. He is the director of Stanford’s Center for Demography and Economics of Health and Aging. His research focuses on the economics of health care. Wikipedia

• https://x.com/DrJBhattacharya
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/jbhattacharya

Watch or listen to episode #254

#253 – Michael Malice

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #253:

1. Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il by Michael Malice
2. The Anarchist Handbook by Michael Malice
3. The White Pill: A Tale of Good and Evil by Michael Malice
4. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
5. Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure by Rachel Fershleiser, Larry Smith
6. The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom by James Burnham
7. What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era by Peggy Noonan
8. The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
9. The Plague by Albert Camus
10. The Guillotine At Work Vol 1: The Leninist Counter-Revolution by Gregory Petrovich Maximoff
11. The Virtue of Nationalism by Yoram Hazony

#252 – Elon Musk

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #252:

1. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore
2. Britannica Concise Encyclopedia by Britannica Editors
3. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

#251 – Ray Dalio

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #251:

1. Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail by Ray Dalio

#250 – Peter Wang

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #250:

1. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
2. Lila by Robert M. Pirsig
3. Death from a Distance and the Birth of a Humane Universe: Human Evolution, Behavior, History, and Your Future by Paul M. Bingham, Joanne Souza
4. Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: Practical Programming for Total Beginners by Al Sweigart

#249 – Albert Bourla

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #249:

No books mentioned.

Albert Bourla is a Greek-American veterinarian and the chairman and chief executive officer of Pfizer, an American pharmaceutical company. He joined the company in 1993 and has held several executive roles across Pfizer’s divisions. Prior to becoming chief executive officer, Bourla served as chief operating officer. Wikipedia

• https://x.com/AlbertBourla
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/albert-bourla

Watch or listen to episode #249

#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