#199 – Roger Reaves

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #199:

  1. Smuggler by Roger Reaves
  2. The Big White Lie: The Deep Cover Operation That Exposed the CIA Sabotage of the Drug War by Michael Levine, Laura Kavanau-Levine
  3. Kings of Cocaine: Inside the Medellain Cartel, an Astonishing True Story of Murder, Money, and International Corruption by Guy Gugliotta
  4. Journeys Out of the Body by Robert Monroe
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#198 – Sara Walker

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #198:

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Sara Imari Walker is an American theoretical physicist and astrobiologist with research interests in the origins of life, astrobiology, physics of life, emergence, complex and dynamical systems, and artificial life. Wikipedia


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#197 – Jocko Willink

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #197:

  1. About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior by Colonel David H. Hackworth, Julie Sherman
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#196 – Yeonmi Park

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #196:

  1. In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park, Maryanne Vollers
  2. Animal Farm by George Orwell
  3. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
  4. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson
  5. Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il by Michael Malice
  6. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
  7. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
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#195 – Clara Sousa-Silva

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #195:

  1. Contact by Carl Sagan
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#194 – Bret Weinstein

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #194:

  1. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
  2. A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life by Heather Heying, Bret Weinstein
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#193 – Rob Reid

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #193:

  1. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
  2. A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka
  3. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer
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#192 – Charles Hoskinson

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Charles Hoskinson is an American entrepreneur who is a co-founder of the blockchain engineering company Input Output Global, Inc., and the Cardano blockchain platform, and was a co-founder of the Ethereum blockchain platform. Wikipedia


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#191 – Daniel Schmachtenberger

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #191:

  1. Free Will by Sam Harris
  2. The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph Tainter
  3. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
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#190 – Jordan Ellenberg

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #190:

  1. How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg
  2. Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else by Jordan Ellenberg
  3. Duel at Dawn: Heroes, Martyrs, and the Rise of Modern Mathematics by Amir Alexander
  4. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott
  5. Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays by Elwyn R. Berlekamp, John H. Conway
  6. Books by Martin Gardner
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