Lex Fridman's Book Recommendations
Lex Fridman is an AI researcher at MIT and host of the Lex Fridman Podcast, where he interviews scientists, technologists, philosophers, and historians. Based on his book recommendations, he seems to have wide-ranging interests in philosophy, science fiction, and sociopolitical themes.
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The War of Art
"Beautiful book."
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Empire of the Summer Moon
"I admire the purity of that way of life."
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
"Encouraged the better side of ourselves."
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Life 3.0
"I recommend people read Life 3.0."
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Essential Bukowski
"Because I've been doing the startup, I've been suffering so I'm reading a lot of Bukowski."
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Love and Math
"Amazing book I recommend to everybody."
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I, Robot
"[My] previous favorite [book by this author]."
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How Emotions Are Made
"A great read."
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The Stranger
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The Metamorphosis
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The Road
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Beyond Good And Evil
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A Hunger Artist
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Animal Farm
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The Old Man and the Sea
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Siddhartha
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The Player of Games
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On the Road
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The Book of Five Rings
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Man's Search for Meaning
"I reread Man's Search for Meaning quite often."
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Principles
"A book I highly recommend."
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Super Sad True Love Story
"@WhitneyCummings PS: Thanks Whitney for sending me Super Sad True Love Story and introducing me to the work of Gary Shteyngart. Great book, great writer."
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The Changing World Order
"The fascinating thing about The Changing World Order is there's philosophy, there's wisdom, but there's plots."
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
"I've read it twice."
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The Idiot
"For the longest time, The Idiot was my favorite book of all because I identified with the ideas represented by Prince Myshkin."
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A New Kind of Science
"Here's my conversation with @stephen_wolfram, computer scientist and physicist, who has inspired a generation of researchers with the beauty & power of computation and whose book A New Kind of Science first led me to fall in love with cellular automata:"
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Artificial Intelligence
"Here's my conversation with Peter Norvig, research director at Google and co-author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, a seminal book in the field of AI that educated and inspired an entire generation of AI researchers, including myself:"
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Meditations
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The Art Of War
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book list View source βThe Toyota Way, Second Edition
"@danielfpas I've read it, it's very good. I like Jeffrey Liker's writing. In general, I like books about big engineering efforts. I'm currently reading the biography of Henry Ford by Richard Snow."
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Sapiens
"Basically one of the things we've created here is we've imagined ideas that we all share."
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Machines Who Think
"I really like Machines Who Think."
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Foundation (7 books)
"My new favorite."
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The Three-Body Problem (3 books)
"Lex Fridman mentioned this series on Instagram."
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