Welcome to the archive of book mentions from Lex Fridman’s podcast.
Explore the philosophical, technical, and deeply human themes covered in his conversations.
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Welcome to the archive of book mentions from Lex Fridman’s podcast.
Explore the philosophical, technical, and deeply human themes covered in his conversations.








Andrew Scull is a historian of psychiatry. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books Fat and Blood by Silas Weir Mitchell“your system and went you know bankrupt so wear and tear that was the problem and the solution was fat and blood that was the title of the other book so you got scrawny and all nervous and twitchy and what you really needed was to build back up your strength including your nervous strength” ▶ Play at 2:14:44 Amazon Madness in Civilization by Andrew Scull“The following is a conversation with Andrew Skull, a historian of psychiatry and mental health. He has authored many books that I highly recommend, including Madness in Civilization, a cultural history of insanity from the Bible to Freud, from the Mad House to Modern Medicine,” ▶ Play at 0:05 Amazon Studies in Hysteria Studies in Hysteria by Josef Breuer and Sigmund Freud“in the world that were disruptive Freud of course developed a much more elaborate theory of this in years to come. Breuer collaborate on a book called studies in hysteria and there are series of case vignettes in there of patients Freud is treated and he develops the notion that people have these” ▶ Play at 2:25:31 Amazon The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud“and once he's abandoned that he goes on to develop increased and increasingly elaborate theory. He writes the interpretation of dreams for example because he begins to read God dreams as an arena where these hidden memories he suppressed things reemerge in disguised form in your dream life and” ▶ Play at 2:28:32 Amazon Wear and Tear by Silas Weir Mitchell“popular best sellers self-help books I suppose you'd call them in the modern genre one was called wear and tear so the pace of modern life the telegraph the railway was all too much and your nervous system was overstressed either your batteries ran down that was one analogy or you overtaxed” ▶ Play at 2:14:21 Amazon
DHH is the creator of Ruby on Rails, Omarchy Linux, CTO of 37signals, and a racecar driver. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke Amazon
Gary Gallagher is a historian of the American Civil War. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainAdventures of Huckleberry Finn or as it is known in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is a novel by American author Mark Twain, which was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and… ...
Anthony Kaldellis is a historian of the Roman Empire and author of “The New Roman Empire”, a comprehensive history of the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire). Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books Politics Politics by Aristotle“is the best way to make the rhetoric powerful and effective. Yeah. This is sort of what Aristotle says about tyrants. In the politics, Aristotle is giving essentially advice to tyrants on how to protect themselves because tyrants are usually hated and are killed in coups. And he says,” ▶ Play at 3:39:22 Amazon
Lars Brownworth is a historian, teacher, podcaster, and author specializing in Viking history, medieval Europe, and the Byzantine Empire. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books Meditations Meditations by Marcus Aurelius“a few of them in history that rise to the very top. And they're still able to maintain humility. Yeah. Marcus Arrelez is in the Roman Empire is an example that, you know, reading meditations is also just an insight into the mind of a man who's to himself because meditations is not supposed” ▶ Play at 1:39:43 Amazon· mentioned in 5 episodes
Jensen Huang is the co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA, the world’s most valuable company and the engine powering the AI computing revolution. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson
Jeff Kaplan is a legendary Blizzard game designer of World of Warcraft and Overwatch, now preparing to launch a new game, The Legend of California, from his new studio Kintsugiyama – available to wishlist on Steam today, with alpha later in March. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce Post Office by Charles Bukowski Selected Poems by Emily Dickinson The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway The Road by Jack Kerouac Zork by Infocom
Rick Beato is a music educator, interviewer, producer, songwriter, and a true multi-instrument musician, playing guitar, bass, cello & piano. His incredible YouTube channel celebrates great musicians & musical ideas, and helps millions of people fall in love with great music all over again. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath Amazon Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen“that came from. They're channeling some deeper thing. When I interviewed Brian May, he told me, I can't remember if this was if we talked about it on camera or not, but we talked about Bohemian Rhapsody. At the very end, there was a thing where he was depressing his whammy bar a little bit. And” ▶ Play at 1:15:21 Amazon Europa Europa by Santana“that because of the sound is so unique and his interest improvised. It's so cool. Yeah. There's certain songs like Europa by Santana, Santana can have that tone too. Yeah, that Mark Nothler makes me really, just how clean it is. I think he beats BB King in my book on terms of” ▶ Play at 1:07:19 Amazon Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen“it's like there's a meta aspect to it. But the nenders also like we're talking about this guitar stuff, but Leonard Cohen, hallelujah, and Leonard Cohen in general, like these songwriters that go super simple in guitar. And there is just what's that called singer songwriter type. I told you off my” ▶ Play at 1:35:08 Amazon Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl Amazon· mentioned in 28 episodes Master of Puppets by Metallica“into that moment in time. Listen to the set list. Enter Sandman, creeping death, Harvester Sara, fate to black, sad but true, master of puppets, seek and destroy for whom the belt holds one and whiplash. Look at that. How is that? That just got the fuck out of here. That's amazing.” ▶ Play at 1:43:12 Amazon Money for Nothing Money for Nothing by Dire Straits“the interesting instrumentation of La Romeo and Juliet, just so, so many is truly one of the greats. Now, obviously, the intro to money for nothing is one of the greatest, almost impossible to recreate that because of the sound is so unique and his interest improvised. It's so cool. Yeah.” ▶ Play at 1:07:04 Amazon Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin“to the fact there's the, if you're ready, there's a right hand, you can use your fingers or you can use a pick. Correct. That's the choice you make. And sometimes you use both. Because in stairway to heaven, you're using the fingers at the beginning or fingers and pick, hybrid, they call hybrid” ▶ Play at 29:50 Amazon Star Wars theme by John Williams“maybe we could have done that. We were that age. So a couple of years ago, it was about, well, he was about three and a half. And I'm in the car. I was like, Dylan, sing the Star Wars theme. And he sings it. And I'm like, that's in the right key. And I checked. I played on my phone.” ▶ Play at 33:28 Amazon Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits1 score (152 p.) ; 31 cm ...
Peter Steinberger is the creator of OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent framework that’s the fastest-growing project in GitHub history. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl Amazon· mentioned in 28 episodes
Nathan Lambert and Sebastian Raschka are machine learning researchers, engineers, and educators. Nathan is the post-training lead at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) and the author of The RLHF Book. Sebastian Raschka is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) and Build a Reasoning Model (From Scratch). Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books Apple in China by Patrick McGee“I think I've tried it in and out of this myself especially trying to like be a manager full-mode training it's a crazy job doing this the book apple in china by Patrick McGee he talked about the how hard the apple engineers work to set up the supply chains in china and he was like they had” ▶ Play at 2:38:08 Amazon Build a Large Language Model from Scratch Build a Large Language Model from Scratch by Nathan Lambert“Sebastian is the author of two books, I highly recommend for beginners and experts alike. First is build a large language model from scratch and build a reasoning model from scratch. I truly believe in the machine learning computer science world, the best way to learn and” ▶ Play at 0:57 Amazon Build a Reasoning Model from Scratch Build a Reasoning Model from Scratch by Nathan Lambert“Sebastian is the author of two books, I highly recommend for beginners and experts alike. First is build a large language model from scratch and build a reasoning model from scratch. I truly believe in the machine learning computer science world, the best way to learn and” ▶ Play at 0:57 Amazon Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback by Nathan Lambert“Nathan is the post-training lead at the Allen Institute for AI and author of the definitive book on reinforcement learning from human feedback. Both of them have great ex-accounts, great sub-stacks, Sebastian has courses on YouTube, Nathan” ▶ Play at 1:22 Amazon Season of the Witch by David TalbotSalon founder David Talbot chronicles the cultural history of San Francisco and from the late 1960s to the early 1980s when figures such as Harvey Milk, Janis Joplin, Jim Jones, and Bill Walsh helped usher from backwater… ...