Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2019-08-01

Books mentioned on Kevin Scott: Microsoft CTO

2 books · With Kevin Scott · Listen · Watch on YouTube

Kevin Scott is the CTO of Microsoft. Before that, he was the Senior Vice President of Engineering and Operations at LinkedIn.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

  1. Radical Markets

    Eric A. Posner; Eric Glen Weyl · at 4:01

    Discussed
    “like he's written an entire entire technical book about about this whole notion of a radical market”
    Where to get it
  2. Sapiens

    Yuval Noah Harari · at 51:40

    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari explores the sweeping trajectory of human history, from the cognitive evolution of early hominids to the complex social and economic structures of the modern era.

    Discussed
    “you've all re book sapiens one of the central ideas and in his book is that like storytelling is like the quintessential thing for coordinating the activities of large groups of people”
    Where to get it