Welcome to the archive of book mentions from Lex Fridman’s podcast.
Explore the philosophical, technical, and deeply human themes covered in his conversations.
Welcome to the archive of book mentions from Lex Fridman’s podcast.
Explore the philosophical, technical, and deeply human themes covered in his conversations.
Sundar Pichai is CEO of Google and Alphabet. 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 The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
James Holland is a historian specializing in World War II. He hosts a podcast called WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books No books extracted yet.
Oliver Anthony is singer-songwriter who first gained worldwide fame with his viral hit Rich Men North of Richmond. He became a voice for many who are voiceless, with many of his songs speaking to the struggle of the working class in modern American life. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books No books extracted yet. ...
Janna Levin is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist specializing in black holes, cosmology of extra dimensions, topology of the universe, and gravitational waves. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books How the Universe Got Its Spots by Janna Levin A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines by Janna Levin Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space by Janna Levin Black Hole Survival Guide by Janna Levin Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Tim Sweeney is a legendary video game programmer, founder and CEO of Epic Games that created the Unreal Engine, Fortnite, Gears of War, Unreal Tournament, and many other groundbreaking and influential video games. Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books No books extracted yet.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom is a historian of modern China. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China’s Great Firewall – Margaret E. Roberts The Origins of Totalitarianism – Hannah Arendt Brave New World – Aldous Huxley (thematically referenced)
Robert Rodriguez is a legendary filmmaker and creator of Sin City, El Mariachi, Desperado, Spy Kids, Machete, From Dusk Till Dawn, Alita: Battle Angel, The Faculty, and his newest venture Brass Knuckle Films. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books No books extracted yet.
Dave Smith is a comedian, libertarian, political commentator, and the host of Part of the Problem podcast. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books The Revolution: A Manifesto** by Ron Paul End the Fed** by Ron Paul Liberty Defined** by Ron Paul A Foreign Policy of Freedom** by Ron Paul
Douglas Murray is the author of On Democracies and Death Cults, The War on The West, and The Madness of Crowds. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books The War in the West by James Holland The War on the West by Douglas Murray Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman The Tragic Sense of Life by Miguel de Unamuno The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie The Triumph of Stupidity by Bertrand Russell (Essay)
Ezra Klein is one of the most influential voices representing the left-wing of American politics. He is a columnist for the NY Times and host of The Ezra Klein Show. Derek Thompson is a writer at The Atlantic and host of the Plain English podcast. Together they have written a new book titled Abundance that lays out a set of ideas for the future of the Democratic party. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our ...