#398 – Mark Zuckerberg

28 Sep 2023

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #398:

No books mentioned.

#397 – Greg Lukianoff

25 Sep 2023

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #397:

The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All―But There Is a Solution by Greg Lukianoff, Rikki Schlott
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt
Freedom from Speech by Greg Lukianoff
Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate by Greg Lukianoff
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
The Qur’an
The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ by Joseph Smith
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution by Francis Fukuyama
Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter
Racial Paranoia: The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness by John L. Jackson Jr.
Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment by Robert Wright
Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide Us by Evan Mandery

Gregory Christopher Lukianoff is an American lawyer, journalist, author and activist who serves as the president of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. He previously served as FIRE’s first director of legal and public advocacy until he was appointed president in 2006. Wikipedia

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#396 – James Sexton

18 Sep 2023

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #396:

How to Stay in Love: A Divorce Lawyer’s Guide to Staying Together by James J. Sexton

James J. Sexton is a divorce attorney and author known for his work in the field of family law.

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#395 – Walter Isaacson

10 Sep 2023

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #395:

The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson
All the President’s Men by Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
Kissinger: A Biography by Walter Isaacson
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson
Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson

Walter Seff Isaacson is an American author, journalist, and professor. He has been the President and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C., the chair and CEO of CNN, and the editor of Time. Wikipedia

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#394 – Neri Oxman

01 Sep 2023

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #394:

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Neri Oxman is an American–Israeli designer and professor at the MIT Media Lab, where she led the Mediated Matter research group. She is known for art and architecture that combine design, biology, computing, and materials engineering. Wikipedia

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#393 – Andrew Huberman

17 Aug 2023

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #393:

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
Fighter’s Heart (Crown MMA Romance) by A. Rivers, Alexa Rivers
Projections: A Story of Human Emotions by Karl Deisseroth

Andrew D. Huberman is an American podcaster and neuroscientist. He is an associate professor of neurobiology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is best known for hosting the Huberman Lab podcast, which he started in 2021. Wikipedia

Other appearances: #139, #164, #277, #435

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#392 – Joscha Bach

01 Aug 2023

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #392:

Sacred And Terrible Air by Robert Kurvitz

Joscha Bach is a German artificial intelligence researcher and cognitive scientist focusing on cognitive architectures, mental representation, emotion, social modeling, and multi-agent systems. Wikipedia

Other appearances: #101, #212

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#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd

24 Jul 2023

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #391:

Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd
Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
Books by by Ghassan Kanafani

Mohammed el-Kurd is a Palestinian writer and poet. He is currently based out of Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem. Prior to the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis, he was pursuing a master’s degree in the United States, but returned to protest Israel’s eviction of Palestinians from their homes in East Jerusalem. Wikipedia

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#390 – Yuval Noah Harari

17 Jul 2023

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #390:

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
Books by Albert Camus

Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli public intellectual, historian and professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of the popular science bestsellers Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. Wikipedia

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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu

12 Jul 2023

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #389:

Bibi: My Story by Benjamin Netanyahu
Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War by P. W. Singer, August Cole

Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu is an Israeli politician who has been serving as the prime minister of Israel since December 2022, having previously held the office from 1996 to 1999 and again from 2009 to 2021. He is the chairman of the Likud party. Wikipedia

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