Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2019-12-21

Books mentioned on Sebastian Thrun: Flying Cars, Autonomous Vehicles, and Education

4 books · With Sebastian Thrun · Listen · Watch on YouTube

Sebastian Thrun is one of the greatest roboticists, computer scientists, and educators of our time. He led development of the autonomous vehicles at Stanford that won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge and placed second in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge.

Sebastian Thrun recommended How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie, HOW TO STOP WORRYING & START LIVING by Dale Carnegie, and Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker, and discussed Probabilistic Robotics by Sebastian Thrun and others.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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1. 

   How to Win Friends and Influence People

   Dale Carnegie · at 23:42 · mentioned 2 times

   How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie is a classic self-help book focused on interpersonal communication, empathy, and building genuine human connections.

   Recommended

   “by the way there's a no-fail carnegie 1936 how to make friends and how to influence others has the entire pipe or just read it and you're done”

   Sebastian Thrun Sebastian Thrun: Flying Cars, Autonomous Vehicles, and Education 2019-12-21 Listen at 23:42

   Where to get it

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2. 

   HOW TO STOP WORRYING & START LIVING

   Dale Carnegie · at 23:51

   HOW TO STOP WORRYING & START LIVING by Dale Carnegie is a classic practical guide designed to help readers overcome chronic anxiety, master emotional control, and build a more peaceful, fulfilling life.

   Recommended

   “by the way there's a no-fail carnegie 1936 how to make friends and how to influence others has the entire pipe”

   Sebastian Thrun Sebastian Thrun: Flying Cars, Autonomous Vehicles, and Education 2019-12-21 Listen at 23:51

   Where to get it

   AmazonListen on Audible
3. 

   Enlightenment Now

   Steven Pinker · at 25:09 · mentioned 2 times

   Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker is a data-driven defense of reason, science, humanism, and progress that argues humanity is living in an era of unprecedented health, prosperity, and safety.

   Recommended

   “Steven Pinker who as a very famous author and philosopher whom I really adore wrote a great book called enlightenment now and that's maybe the one book I would recommend”

   Sebastian Thrun Sebastian Thrun: Flying Cars, Autonomous Vehicles, and Education 2019-12-21 Listen at 25:09

   Where to get it

   AmazonListen on Audible
4. 

   Probabilistic Robotics

   Sebastian Thrun, Wolfram Burgard, Dieter Fox · at 31:42

   Discussed

   “um prior to me working on self-driving cars I was a roboticist in a machine learning expert and I wrote books on robotics something called probabilistic robotics the survey methods driven kind of viewpoint of the world”

   Sebastian Thrun Sebastian Thrun: Flying Cars, Autonomous Vehicles, and Education 2019-12-21 Listen at 31:42

   Where to get it

   AmazonListen on Audible