Lex Fridman

Lex Fridman's Book Recommendations

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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.

61 books recommended

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Life 3.0

Life 3.0

by Max Tegmark

"I recommend people read Life 3.0."

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Essential Bukowski

Essential Bukowski

by Charles Bukowski

"Because I've been doing the startup, I've been suffering so I'm reading a lot of Bukowski."

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I, Robot

I, Robot

by Isaac Asimov

"[My] previous favorite [book by this author]."

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The Stranger

The Stranger

by Albert Camus

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The Metamorphosis

The Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka

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A Hunger Artist

A Hunger Artist

by Franz Kafka

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Animal Farm

Animal Farm

by George Orwell

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Siddhartha

Siddhartha

by Hermann Hesse

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The Player of Games

The Player of Games

by Iain M Banks

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On the Road

On the Road

by Jack Kerouac

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Super Sad True Love Story

Super Sad True Love Story

by Gary Shteyngart

"@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 Changing World Order

by Ray Dalio

"The fascinating thing about The Changing World Order is there's philosophy, there's wisdom, but there's plots."

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The Idiot

The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

"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

A New Kind of Science

by Stephen Wolfram

"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

Artificial Intelligence

by Melanie Mitchell

"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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The Toyota Way, Second Edition

by Jeffrey Liker

"@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

Sapiens

by Yuval Noah Harari

"Basically one of the things we've created here is we've imagined ideas that we all share."

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