#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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#131 – Chris Lattner

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #131:

  1. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer
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#130 – Scott Aaronson

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #130:

  1. Books by Roger Penrose
  2. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer
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#129 – Lisa Feldman Barrett

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #129:

  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. The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World – and Us by Richard O. Prum
  4. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
  5. The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan
  6. Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain by David Eagleman
  7. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
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#128 – Michael Malice

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #128:

  1. The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics by Michael Malice
  2. Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il by Michael Malice
  3. Ostracism: The Power of Silence by Kipling D. Williams
  4. The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind by Gustave Le Bon
  5. The Idea of Decline in Western History by Arthur Herman
  6. The Red Decade: The Classic Work on Communism in America During the Thirties by Eugene Lyons
  7. Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire by Victor Sebestyen
  8. A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles by Marianne Williamson
  9. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  10. The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom by James Burnham
  11. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
  12. A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell
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#127 – Joe Rogan

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #127:

  1. The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life by Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski
  2. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield
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#126 – James Gosling

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #126:

  1. The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers by David Wells
  2. The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth
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#125 – Ryan Hall

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #125:

  1. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
  2. The Foundation series by Isaac Asimov
  3. Dune by Frank Herbert
  4. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
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#124 – Stephen Wolfram

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #124:

  1. A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram
  2. A Project to Find the Fundamental Theory of Physics by Stephen Wolfram
  3. The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson
  4. Euclid’s Elements by Euclid
  5. Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray by Sabine Hossenfelder
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#123 – Manolis Kellis

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #123:

  1. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
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