Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2023-09-01
Lex Fridman & Neri Oxman: books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #394
#394 – Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature
Neri Oxman is a designer, engineer, scientist, and artist working on computational design, synthetic biology and digital fabrication, previously at MIT, and now at OXMAN.
Lex Fridman recommended The Idiot by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, and discussed The Alchemist Graphic Novel by Paulo Coelho and War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. Neri Oxman recommended Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, and discussed Moby Dick by Herman Melville.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Idiot
Recommended“Dostoyevski said, "Beauty will save the world" in "The Idiot," one of my favorite books of his. What is beauty to you?”
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The Alchemist Graphic Novel
Discussed“Do you think there's something to this whole manifestation thing, like focusing on a vision of what you want the world to become, and in that focusing you manifest it, like Paolo Coelho said in "The Alchemist," "When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it"?”
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Man's Search for Meaning
Recommended“I also think that another kind of way of being or a modality of being that I found helpful is Viktor Frankl wrote this incredible book, "Man's Search for Meaning" after the Holocaust.”
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Moby Dick
Discussed“I remember when we did the Mandela Pavilion, we read 'Moby Dick,' the whiteness of the whale, the albino, the different, the other. And that got us to work on melanin.”
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War and Peace
Discussed“Lenny Bernstein, "War and Peace," Tolstoy. You tweeted a Tolstoy quote from "War and Peace," as of course you would: "Everything I know, I know because of love."”
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Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Meditations
“Oh, and she also brought me a present, "War and Peace" by Tolstoy, and "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius. It doesn't get better than that.”
Passing War and Peace
“Oh, and she also brought me a present, "War and Peace" by Tolstoy, and "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius. It doesn't get better than that.”
Passing War and Peace
“It's reading a Nature paper, it's "War and Peace."”