📚 3 Books mentioned in "Natalya Bailey: Rocket Engines and Electric Spacecraft Propulsion | Lex Fridman Podcast #157" of Lex Fridman Podcast

and okay the third uh series is it's just it's harry potter um of course which somehow connects to i haven't read harry potter i'm really sorry forgive me forgive me uh but uh i've read tolkien but just harry potter just haven't haven't gone to it but your company name is somehow i think connect with harry potter right

Natalya mentions the Harry Potter series as the third recommendation, highlighting its importance in keeping her reading and its connection to her company's name.

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um so i think the first one that stands out to me is um 10 it's a novel um tender is the knight by fitzgerald and i i read it when i was much younger but i went back and read it recently and it's not that good so i'm not sure why it has like such an important place um in my literary history but um i love fitzgerald as an author because he's very he's very like flowery prose um that i can just picture what he's saying but he does it in a such a creative way i remember that one in particular because it you know i read a ton as a kid too but it kind of set me it was like the beginning of my adult reading life and um getting into classics and um i kind of i do feel like i they seem intimidating maybe and then i realize that they're all just like love stories

Natalya mentions this novel by Fitzgerald as the first book that stands out to her, marking the beginning of her adult reading life and getting into classics.

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um changing gears quite a bit um the beginning of infinity do you know what by david deutsch um so he's a physicist um i think at cambridge or oxford and so i was introduced like more formally to a lot of the ideas like a lot of the things we've talked about he um has a lot more like formalism and physics rigor around and so i got introduced to you know more like jargon of how to think about some of these ideas um you know like memes and you know dna as as ultimate meme um the concept of infinity and um objective beauty um but he has a really strong grounding in in physics um and then there's a rigorous way of talking about these like big yeah so that was very mind opening to me to read that but it also i think is probably part of why i ended up marrying my husband is related to that book and then i've had some other really great connections with people because i had read it and so had they

Natalya mentions this book by David Deutsch as mind-opening, introducing her to formal ideas related to physics and philosophy, and even connecting her to her husband.

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