Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2021-04-17
Books mentioned on #176 – Robert Breedlove: Philosophy of Bitcoin from First Principles
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Robert Breedlove recommended Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, Zen by Robert Linssen, Gold Wars by Ferdinand Lips, Human Action by Ludwig von Mises and others, and The Constitution of the United States and related documents by United States, and discussed Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning by Victor Frankl, The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous and others, The Case Against Reality by Donald David Hoffman, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig, Lila by Robert Pirsig, The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and others, Honest Money by Gary North, Maps of Meaning by Jordan B. Peterson, and The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E.
Recommended“and as I argue in a lot of my writing actually think that sovereignty inheres within the individual and that we each have our own interiorized space of choice which is something like Victor Frankle called the final human freedom and that we no matter what our circumstances are no matter what exogenous situation we Face we always have this”
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Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning
Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning by Viktor Frankl is a profound psychological and philosophical work by a Holocaust survivor that explores how human beings can confront extreme suffering and find profound purpose in life.
Discussed“That's one of my favorite books is U man for meeting maybe we can break that apart a little bit”
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The Bitcoin Standard
Saifedean Ammous's "The Bitcoin Standard" offers a detailed exploration of the history of money and argues for the economic necessity of a hard, decentralized currency rooted in Austrian economic principles.
Discussed“but he had written um the forward to a really important book in Bitcoin called the Bitcoin standard for safety in a moose and then I think they had a little Twitter beef because safe was is very much against covid mask and state intervention whereas tb's on the other side of the fence”
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The Case Against Reality
The Case Against Reality by Donald David Hoffman is a scientific exploration arguing that human perception is an evolutionary interface rather than a direct window into objective truth.
Discussed“most of my thinking is shaped by a book I read recently called the case against reality um which introduced me to this concept”
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M.
Discussed“but this dovetailed nicely with another book called Leela um the the author is Robert perig so he wrote Zen In The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance which is a very popular book book 20 years later he wrote Leela which no one's heard of”
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Lila
Lila is a philosophical novel written by Robert Pirsig that explores the concepts of dynamic quality versus static quality and a metaphysics centered on value.
Discussed“but this dovetailed nicely with another book called Leela um the the author is Robert perig so he wrote Zen In The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance which is a very popular book book 20 years later he wrote Leela which no one's heard of which is crazy and he basically says he was wrong about his first book and he”
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Zen
Zen by Robert Linssen is a philosophical book that explores Eastern spiritual traditions and their practical applications to everyday human consciousness.
Recommended“Robert perig so he wrote Zen In The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance which is a very popular book book 20 years later he wrote Leela which no one's heard of”
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The Sovereign Individual
The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg is a provocative economic and political study exploring how the shift toward a digital information economy empowers individuals at the expense of the nation-state.
Discussed“so I've written a lot about this uh in a new series called sovereignism which is based Loosely on a book called The sovereign individual and that's the general thesis is that microprocessing technology would devour our organizational models uh the most important of which is the nation state”
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Gold Wars
Gold Wars by Ferdinand Lips is an investigative book that examines the historical and financial conflicts surrounding precious metals.
Recommended“There's a great book on this called the gold Wars um that that outlines how governments have been waging a cold war against gold for the past 50 years”
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Human Action
Human Action by Ludwig von Mises is a foundational and dense treatise on Austrian economics, methodological individualism, and human decision-making.
Recommended“I would challenge them to read the book Human Action WR by written by misus I think in 1949 he published the English version it's essential essentially the the Bible of Austrian economics”
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Honest Money
Discussed“so there's a great book on this called honest money by Gary North and in that book he gives the parable of the wine maker”
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Maps of Meaning
Maps of Meaning by Jordan B.
Discussed“we did a a book club on his book maps of meaning and he engaged with us about it so hoping to deliver the orange pill to Mr Peterson”
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The Constitution of the United States and related documents
The Constitution of the United States and related foundational documents establish the legal framework, separation of powers, and structural limitations of the American federal government.
Recommended“and then the last one would be I think I mentioned this at the beginning was that book Leela by Robert pers where he's you know making the case that value is fundamental”
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The Book of Five Rings
The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi is a classic treatise on strategy, tactics, and philosophy written by a legendary seventeenth-century Japanese swordsman.
Discussed“uh who wrote Masashi wrote the book of five rings”
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