Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2021-06-16
Lex Fridman & Charles Hoskinson: books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #192
#192 – Charles Hoskinson: Cardano
Charles Hoskinson is the founder of Cardano, co-founder of Ethereum, a mathematician, and a farmer.
Charles Hoskinson recommended How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan and The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin, and discussed Principia Mathematica by Alfred North Whitehead and others, Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell, and Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and others. Lex Fridman recommended The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Principia Mathematica
Discussed“And Russell and Whitehead wrote this huge set of of books, like two big books, Principia Mathematica, a thousand pages and the conclusion 1 + 1 = 2.”
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Why I Am Not a Christian
Discussed“You know, if you read Why I'm Not a Christian or any of his other attacks on on metaphysics, you know, he said, "Look, I can only deal with the world I'm in in the senses that I have, and if I can deduce it, I believe it. If it's outside of that, I really can't make meaningful statements about”
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Freakonomics
Discussed“And there's even I think there was a book Freakonomics, and there's a few of these things where you just shows again and again where people behave in ways that are against their best interest.”
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How to Change Your Mind
Recommended“There's a great book called from Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind, where he was really the first journalist in a long time to go and roll up his work his way through the Johns Hopkins studies.”
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The Art of Learning
Recommended“You know, Josh Waitzkin wrote this beautiful book, The Art of Learning, if you ever read it.”
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The Old Man and the Sea
Recommended“And one of my favorite books is Old Man and the Sea.”
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