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Every book Charles Hoskinson recommended on podcasts
Key facts
- Charles Hoskinson has recommended or discussed 9 books on podcasts, as of July 7, 2025.
- Charles Hoskinson has talked about books on 2 podcasts, as of July 7, 2025.
- Those books came up in 2 episodes, as of July 7, 2025.
- The 3 books Charles Hoskinson has mentioned in the most episodes, as of July 7, 2025: How to Change Your Mind, How to Take Smart Notes and Irreducible.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Charles Hoskinson aired on July 7, 2025.
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Across 2 podcasts. Every show Charles Hoskinson appears on, in one place, not just one.
Charles Hoskinson’s most recommended books
- How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
- How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens
- Irreducible by Federico Faggin
- The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin
- Treasury's War by Juan Zarate
Charles Hoskinson is an American entrepreneur who is a co-founder of the blockchain engineering company IOHK, and the Cardano blockchain platform, and was a co-founder of the Ethereum blockchain platform. He has recommended several books on podcasts regarding consciousness, productivity, and personal development. On The Shawn Ryan Show, Hoskinson recommended Federico Faggin's Irreducible while exploring the boundaries of physics and consciousness, and he suggested Sönke Ahrens's How to Take Smart Notes when explaining personal knowledge management strategies. During an appearance on the Lex Fridman Podcast, Hoskinson recommended Michael Pollan's How to Change Your Mind, highlighting Pollan's journalistic exploration of Johns Hopkins studies regarding the medicinal and psychological value of psychedelics. In the same interview, he suggested Josh Waitzkin's The Art of Learning as valuable reading for young people seeking to master the process of learning. Alongside these recommendations, Hoskinson discussed several other works, including George Church and Edward Regis's Regenesis while talking about synthetic biology, Juan Zarate's Treasury's War in the context of financial warfare, and Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell's massive foundational mathematical treatise Principia Mathematica, using the latter to illustrate late nineteenth-century efforts to formalize mathematical logic.
Books Charles Hoskinson recommended or discussed
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How to Change Your Mind
Discussed“So after I started noticing that, I read Michael Polland's book, you know, how to change your mind and he's a great guy and I said, 'Wow, there's a there there's something interesting.'”
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How to Take Smart Notes
Recommended“There's a lovely book how to take smart notes that talks about it.”
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Irreducible
Recommended“So, there's great books like one is irreducible from Federico Fagen and then ... where they're kind of exploring the art of the possible”
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The Art of Learning
Recommended“You know, Josh Waitzkin wrote this beautiful book, The Art of Learning, if you ever read it.”
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Treasury's War
Recommended“There's this wonderful book from Ron Sarat called Treasuries War, and it says, 'Hey, the Giwa wasn't just fought on a battlefield. It was fought by accountants.'”
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Freakonomics
Discussed“And there's even I think there was a book Freakonomics, and there's a few of these things where you just shows again and again where people behave in ways that are against their best interest.”
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Principia Mathematica
Discussed“And Russell and Whitehead wrote this huge set of of books, like two big books, Principia Mathematica, a thousand pages and the conclusion 1 + 1 = 2.”
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Regenesis
Discussed“George Church, the guy that started Colossal with him, like was an expert in this area. He he wrote all the books on synthetic biology, like Regenesis was one book and over a thousand papers and these things.”
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Why I Am Not a Christian
Discussed“You know, if you read Why I'm Not a Christian or any of his other attacks on on metaphysics, you know, he said, "Look, I can only deal with the world I'm in in the senses that I have, and if I can deduce it, I believe it. If it's outside of that, I really can't make meaningful statements about”
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Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
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| #215 Charles Hoskinson - Cardano Founder on the Secret DARPA AI Project That Became Siri | The Shawn Ryan Show | 2025-07-07 | 5 |
| #192 – Charles Hoskinson: Cardano | Lex Fridman Podcast | 2021-06-16 | 5 |