#141 – Erik Brynjolfsson

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #141:

  1. The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies by Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee
  2. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
  3. The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers by Robert L. Heilbroner
  4. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark
  5. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
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#140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #140:

  1. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
  2. Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
  3. At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays by Anne Fadiman
  4. The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment by Richard Lewontin
  5. Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA by Richard Lewontin
  6. Naming the Mind: How Psychology Found Its Language by Kurt Danziger
  7. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
  8. The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner
  9. The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World – and Us by Richard O. Prum
  10. Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand: A Novel by Helen Simonson
  11. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
  12. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
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#139 – Andrew Huberman

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #139:

  1. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
  2. How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan
  3. Winston Churchill’s Afternoon Nap: A Wide-Awake Inquiry Into the Human Nature of Time by Jeremy Campbell
  4. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
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#138 – Yaron Brook

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #138:

  1. We the Living by Ayn Rand
  2. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
  3. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
  4. The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand
  5. Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal by Ayn Rand
  6. Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology by Ayn Rand
  7. Animal Farm by George Orwell
  8. 1984 by George Orwell
  9. The Ominous Parallels: The End of Freedom in America by Leonard Peikoff
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#137 – Alex Filippenko

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #137:

  1. Books by Brian Greene
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#136 – Dan Carlin

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #136:

  1. Stalin by Stephen Kotkin
  2. From Here to Eternity by James Jones
  3. The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century by George Friedman
  4. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer
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#135 – Charles Isbell

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #135:

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#134 – Eric Weinstein

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #134:

  1. Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta
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#133 – Manolis Kellis

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #133:

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#132 – George Hotz

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #132:

  1. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
  2. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
  3. Permutation City by Greg Egan
  4. The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect by Roger Williams
  5. The Foundation series by Isaac Asimov
  6. Dune by Frank Herbert
  7. A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
  8. Neuromancer by William Gibson
  9. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
  10. Bronze Age Mindset by Bronze Age Pervert
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