Lex FridmanRecommended Books
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“Definitely in my top 5 of most influential books.”
“You're welcome! Shirer does an excellent job of unpacking the Soviets' reversal and why it happened. It's one of my favorite books. Let me know what you think if you give it a try.”
“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.”
“Because I've been doing the startup, I've been suffering so I'm reading a lot of Bukowski.”
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“Here's my conversation with Peter Norvig, research director at Google and coauthor 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”
“My obsession with Native American history books continues, and with Black Elk I’ve found my favorite one yet.”
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