#120 – François Chollet

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #120:

1. On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent by Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee
2. Books by Jean Piaget

#119 – David Eagleman

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #119:

1. Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain by David Eagleman
2. Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman
3. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer
4. The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
5. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
6. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
7. The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
8. Cosmos by Carl Sagan

#118 – Grant Sanderson

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #118:

1. Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Anders Ericsson, Robert Pool
2. Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Avis Lang
3. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport

#117 – Sheldon Solomon

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #117:

1. Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes From and Why by Ellen Dissanayake
2. Dreamthorp by Alexander Smith
3. The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
4. Escape from Evil by Ernest Becker
5. The Birth and Death of Meaning: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Problem of Man by Ernest Becker
6. The Worm at the Core: On the role of Death in Life by Sheldon Solomon
7. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
8. False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism by John Gray
9. The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
10. Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life by Sherwood Anderson
11. Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society by David Wilson
12. History Of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Karen Armstrong
13. In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong by Amin Maalouf
14. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
15. Consciousness regained: Chapters in the Development of Mind by Nicholas Humphrey
16. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
17. Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm
18. The Dead by James Joyce
19. The Plague by Albert Camus
20. Clock Without Hands by Carson McCullers
21. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
22. The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
23. Books by Richard D. Wolff
24. Books by Adam Smith
25. Books by Malcolm Gladwell

#116 – Sara Seager

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #116:

1. The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir by Sara Seager
2. The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
3. The Giver by Lois Lowry
4. Sleeping Island: The Story of One Man’s Travels in the Great Barren Lands of the Canadian North by Prentice G. Downes

#115 – Dileep George

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #115:

1. On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines by Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee
2. The Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude E. Shannon, Warren Weaver
3. Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems: Networks of Plausible Inference by Judea Pearl
4. Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference by Judea Pearl
5. The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect by Judea Pearl
6. The Mind’s I: Fantasies And Reflections On Self & Soul by Douglas R. Hofstadter, Daniel C. Dennett
7. The Bishop’s Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright by Tom D. Crouch

#114 – Russ Tedrake

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #114:

1. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
2. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
3. Barefoot Running Step by Step: Barefoot Ken Bob, the Guru of Shoeless Running, Shares His Personal Technique for Running with More Speed, Less Impact, Fewer Injuries and More Fun by Roy M. Wallack, Barefoot Ken Bob Saxton
4. Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us by Rodney Brooks
5. Ai Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee
6. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
7. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
8. How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren
9. I, Asimov: A Memoir by Isaac Asimov
10. Animal Farm by George Orwell

#113 – Manolis Kelliss

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #113:

No books mentioned.

#112 – Ian Hutchinson

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #112:

1. Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles?: An MIT Professor Answers Questions on God and Science by Ian Hutchinson
2. Monopolizing Knowledge by Ian Hutchinson

#111 – Richard Karp

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #111:

No books mentioned.