#475 - Demis Hassabis

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #475:

  1. Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions Of Evolution by Nick Lane
  2. The MANIAC by Benjamin Labatut
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#474 - DHH

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #474:

  1. Rework by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
  2. Remote: Office Not Required by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
  3. Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson, Matthew Linderman
  4. It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
  5. Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler
  6. Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  7. Learn to Program by Chris Pine
  8. Books by Yoshitake Shinsuke
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#473 - Mark Dubowitz and Scott Horton

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #473:

  1. By Way of Deception : The Making and Unmaking of a Mossad Officer by Victor Ostrovsky, Claire Hoy
  2. Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism by Scott Horton
  3. Iran’s Perilous Pursuit of Nuclear Weapons by David Albright, Sarah Burkhard
  4. Peddling Peril: How the Secret Nuclear Trade Arms America’s Enemies by David Albright
  5. Plutonium and Highly Enriched Uranium 1996: World Inventories, Capabilities, and Policies by David Albright, Frans Berkhout, William Walker
  6. Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare by Gareth Porter
  7. Perfect Soldiers: The 9/11 Hijackers: Who They Were, Why They Did It by Terry McDermott
  8. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
  9. Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror by Michael Scheuer
  10. The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda by Ali Soufan, Daniel Freedman
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#472 - Terence Tao

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #472:

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#471 - Sundar Pichai

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #471:

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#470 - James Holland

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #470:

  1. The War in the West by James Holland
  2. Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
  3. Munich by Robert Harris
  4. KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann
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#469 - Oliver Anthony

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #469:

  1. Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win by Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
  2. The History of One Tough Motherfucker (poem) by Charles Bukowski
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#468 - Janna Levin

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #468:

  1. How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space by Janna Levin
  2. A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines by Janna Levin
  3. Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space by Janna Levin
  4. Black Hole Survival Guide by Janna Levin
  5. The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics by Leonard Susskind
  6. The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? by Leon Lederman, Dick Teresi
  7. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
  8. Never Let Me G by Kazuo Ishiguro
  9. Time’s Arrow by Martin Amis
  10. Animal Farm by George Orwell
  11. Why Orwell Matters by Christopher Hitchens
  12. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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#467 - Tim Sweeney

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #467:

  1. Michael Abrash’s Graphics Programming Black Book by Michael Abrash
  2. The Metaverse: Fully Revised and Updated Edition: Building the Spatial Internet by Matthew Ball
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#466 - Jeffrey Wasserstrom

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #466:

  1. Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China’s Great Firewall by Margaret E. Roberts
  2. The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
  3. 1984 by George Orwell
  4. Animal Farm by George Orwell
  5. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  6. Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley
  7. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  8. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
  9. Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy by Shibani Mahtani, Timothy McLaughlin
  10. The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia’s Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing by Jeffrey Wasserstrom
  11. Neuromancer by William Gibson
  12. Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet’s Memoir of China’s Genocide by Tahir Hamut Izgil
  13. The Xi Jinping Effect by Ashley Esarey, Rongbin Han
  14. Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping’s China by Emily Feng
  15. No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain by Rebecca Solnit
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