📚 6 Books mentioned in "Marc Andreessen: Trump, Power, Tech, AI, Immigration & Future of America | Lex Fridman Podcast #458" of Lex Fridman Podcast

This is sort of the big breakthrough that Clay Christensen had in "The Innovator's Dilemma," which is sometimes when big companies don't do things, it's because they're screwing up.

Marc Andreessen mentions this book by Clay Christensen as explaining why big companies sometimes fail to adapt to new technologies because it would disrupt their existing business.

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By the way, you know, these were very, very smart people, right? And so they knew tremendous amounts of like Greek and Roman history. They knew the Renaissance history, you know, "The Federalist Papers," they argue this a great length.

Marc Andreessen mentions this collection of essays as something the US founders studied and discussed extensively.

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If we can draw parallels to the Hobbit or whatever.

Lex Fridman suggests drawing parallels to this book in the context of the "ring of power" discussion.

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And for people who don't catch the reference, that's "Lord of the Rings."

Marc Andreessen mentions this book/series to explain the reference to "the ring of power".

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I learned about it through a famous book on politics, probably the best book on politics written in the 20th century called "The Machiavellians" by this guy James Burnham,

Marc Andreessen mentions this book by James Burnham as the best book on politics written in the 20th century, introducing the concept of the iron law of oligarchy.

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And here the best book is called "The True Believer," which is the Eric Hoffer book.

Marc Andreessen mentions this book by Eric Hoffer as the best book on politics written in the 20th century, discussing the distinction between elites and masses.

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