Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2020-09-20
Books mentioned on #125 – Ryan Hall: Martial Arts and the Philosophy of Violence, Power, and Grace
Ryan Hall is a jiu jitsu black belt, UFC fighter, and a philosopher of the martial arts. Please check out our sponsors to get a discount and to support this podcast: – PowerDot, use code LEX: https://powerdot.
Ryan Hall discussed Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer, Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler and others, Dune by Frank Herbert, and Foundation by Isaac Asimov. Lex Fridman discussed Rise by Brigitte Gabriel and Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Ender's Game
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card is a classic science fiction novel about a gifted young boy recruited into an elite military academy to prepare for an impending alien invasion through intense tactical simulations.
Discussed“in fact i think actually orson scott card you know who's the writer of a great book called anders game”
Where to get it
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Rise
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L.
Discussed“i've been reading the rise and fall of the third reich”
Where to get it
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L.
Discussed“i've been reading uh the rise and fall of the third reich”
Where to get it
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Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler is a notorious autobiographical manifesto outlining the author's political ideology and anti-Semitic worldview.
Discussed“i don't know because hitler wrote all about it in mineconf”
Where to get it
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Dune
Frank Herbert’s classic science fiction masterpiece Dune is widely celebrated as an epic space opera exploring ecology, religion, and political power on a desert planet.
Discussed“the books on my list are the foundation series by isaac asimov dune snow crash by neil stephenson and ender's game like you mentioned”
Where to get it
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Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson's groundbreaking cyberpunk novel Snow Crash immerses readers in a chaotic future America defined by corporate franchising, hyper-inflation, and a virtual reality network known as the Metaverse.
Discussed“the books on my list are the foundation series by isaac asimov dune snow crash by neil stephenson and ender's game like you mentioned”
Where to get it
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Foundation
Foundation by Isaac Asimov is a classic science fiction masterpiece that follows a visionary mathematician who establishes a refuge to preserve human knowledge and shorten a dark age following the collapse of a galactic empire.
Discussed“the books on my list are the foundation series by isaac asimov dune snow crash by neil stephenson and ender's game like you mentioned”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“i'm aware through wikipedia and uh through through surface reading of things that like a book called the republic was written once”
“i'm aware through wikipedia and through surface reading of things that like a book called the republic was written once”
“and actually that brings me to another dune”