📚 4 Books mentioned in "Sergey Nazarov: Chainlink, Smart Contracts, and Oracle Networks | Lex Fridman Podcast #181" of Lex Fridman Podcast

um i think biographies have had a very large impact on me um you know plutarch's greek and roman lives after i read plato i started reading a bunch of stuff greek stuff

Sergey mentions reading Plutarch's Greek and Roman Lives after reading Plato, as part of reading Greek literature, and notes the value of intellectual ideas that survive the test of time.

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um i think biographies have had a very large impact on me um you know plutarch's greek and roman lives after i read plato i started reading a bunch of stuff greek stuff

Sergey mentions reading Plutarch's Greek and Roman Lives after reading Plato, as part of reading Greek literature, and notes the value of intellectual ideas that survive the test of time.

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um so i think one of the things that had a very big impact on me were plato's dialogues and particularly protagoras and gorgeous as as as some of the two initial ones i i think what plato's dialogues do very well is they give people a clear picture of what dialogue looks like and what the assessment of information um probably should look like

Sergey mentions Plato's dialogues, specifically Protagoras and Gorgias, as having a big impact on him in his early teenage years, teaching him about dialogue and evaluating information.

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i think that um probably one of the most impactful ones that i can remember recently is around uh vanderbilt and so vanderbilt was these uh was this guy who basically without that much of an education he would invent or work with people to make these steamboats and then he had a lot of acumen around creating certain monopolies regardless of you know what was um right or wasn't right

Sergey mentions a biography about Vanderbilt (likely Cornelius Vanderbilt) as one of the most impactful ones he's read recently, discussing his life, steamboats, and monopolies.

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