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Every book Mark Zuckerberg recommended on podcasts
Key facts
- Mark Zuckerberg has recommended or discussed 6 books on podcasts, as of March 24, 2022.
- Mark Zuckerberg has talked about books on 2 podcasts, as of March 24, 2022.
- Those books came up in 2 episodes, as of March 24, 2022.
- The 3 books Mark Zuckerberg has mentioned in the most episodes, as of March 24, 2022: Way of the Warrior Kid, Why We're Polarized and Genesis.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Mark Zuckerberg aired on March 24, 2022.
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Across 2 podcasts. Every show Mark Zuckerberg appears on, in one place — not just one.
Mark Zuckerberg’s most recommended books
- Way of the Warrior Kid by Jocko Willink
- Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein
- Genesis by Bernard Beckett
- Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American businessman and programmer who co-founded the social media service Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms, serving as its chairman, chief executive officer, and controlling shareholder. During podcast appearances on The Tim Ferriss Show and the Lex Fridman Podcast, Zuckerberg recommended and discussed several books related to technology, politics, and parenting. He recommended Jocko Willink's children's book The Way of the Warrior Kid, noting that he reads it with his children during bedtime. He also recommended Ezra Klein's Why We're Polarized, using its historical analysis to argue that political polarization is driven by deeper societal forces rather than solely by social media. In discussions regarding virtual and augmented reality, Zuckerberg cited Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, Ernest Cline's Ready Player One, and Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End as foundational or equivalent works in the space. Additionally, he mentioned studying Genesis with a rabbi to explore philosophical perspectives on creation and the meaning of human life.
Books recommended by Mark Zuckerberg
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Way of the Warrior Kid
Way of the Warrior Kid by Jocko Willink is an empowering children's book that follows a struggling youngster who learns essential lessons in resilience, discipline, and physical fitness from his uncle, a former Navy SEAL.
Recommended“So, that's maybe one silver lining of the of the pandemic the last couple of years, but it's but basically, you know, I I just take an hour every day and you know, we we read, we like sing, we you know, it's um you know, I'm I'm reading this book with them now, The Way of the Warrior Kid,”
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Why We're Polarized
Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein is a deep dive into the structural forces driving American political division.
Recommended“and um you know it's a a bunch of books by you know political scientists ezra klein and folks why we're polarized basically goes through this decades-long analysis in the u.s before i was born basically talking about some of the forces and kind of partisan politics and fox news and different things that predate the internet in a lot”
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Genesis
Genesis is the opening book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament, detailing foundational narratives of creation, early human history, the patriarchs, and the symbolic introduction of moral and spiritual concepts to humanity.
Discussed“we were talking through genesis and the the bible and the torah and um and they're basically walking through”
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Rainbows End
Discussed“I think Rainbows End is one that is maybe not as commonly cited, but I think is is maybe the augmented reality sort of equivalent of some of the the seminal works that talk about virtual reality.”
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Ready Player One
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline is a dystopian science fiction novel set in a near-future virtual reality world filled with nostalgic pop culture references from the 1980s.
Discussed“There are some that are just classics around this, right? So I don't think at this point anyone who's in this space would read Ready Player One and Snow Crash.”
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Snow Crash
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson is a classic cyberpunk science fiction novel that famously anticipated the metaverse, modern social media, and digital currencies.
Discussed“There are some that are just classics around this, right? So I don't think at this point anyone who's in this space would read Ready Player One and Snow Crash.”
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Appearances
Other mentions (2: passing, ad reads, own books)
“I did write a one-page version of The Future Is Asian, too. Yeah, well, I published it in the Wall Street Journal. Oh, that's right.”
“so I kind of think like after having gone through that whole exercise it um I don't know it's something out of like you know 1984 one of these books where it's just like it really is a slippery slope”