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Amazon
Amazon
“has done remarkably well they upped their delivery game more or less overnight with very few hitches”
“amazon has done remarkably well they upped their delivery game more or less overnight with very few hitches i've ordered hundreds of amazon packages”— guest
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Zoom
Zoom
“their performance rate has been remarkably high”
“switching over our entire higher educational system basically within two weeks to zoom zoom did it”— guest
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“twitter has enabled an incredible platform of communication”
“jack dorsey with twitter you know to me twitter has enabled an incredible platform of communication”— Lex Fridman
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Clubhouse
Alpha Exploration Co. (inferred)
“to me it's a great service”
“look at clubhouse right it's to me it's a great service may or may not be like my thing but gives people this opportunity”— guest
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Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
Ayn Rand
“the book that really mattered for me”
“the book that really mattered for me was capitalism the unknown ideal the notion that wealth creates opportunity and good lives”— guest
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The Life of Samuel Johnson
James Boswell
“it's one of the greatest philosophy books ever”
“boswell's life of johnson 18th century british biography it's in essence a co-authored work boswell and johnson it's one of the greatest philosophy books ever”— guest
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Plato's Dialogues
Plato
“maybe the three i would cite”
“one is plato's dialogues which i started reading when i was like 13. another is iran capitalism the unknown ideal”— guest
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Individualism and Economic Order (incl. 'The Use of Knowledge in Society')
Friedrich Hayek
“those are maybe the three i would cite”
“the friedrich hayek essay the use of knowledge in society which is about how decentralized mechanisms can work also why they might go wrong”— guest
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The Beatles (White Album)
The Beatles
“the best half like dear prudence sounds perfect”
“white album like the best half like dear prudence sounds perfect sounds simple cry baby cry it's not simple back in the ussr super complex”— guest
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Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen
“the quality of the songs to be born to run is just far and away the best”
“i think the album born to run has actually held up the best though it's very fashionable to think the earlier or later works are actually better”— guest
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Darkness on the Edge of Town
Bruce Springsteen
“those are still my favorites”
“the best then darkness on the edge of town yeah and those are still my favorites is an incredible song”— guest
The guest's own work
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Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero
Tyler Cowen
“author of many books including the great stagnation average is over and his most recent big business a love letter to an american anti-hero”— Lex Fridman
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The Great Stagnation
Tyler Cowen
“author of many books including the great stagnation average is over and his most recent big business a love letter to an american anti-hero”— Lex Fridman
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Average Is Over
Tyler Cowen
“author of many books including the great stagnation average is over and his most recent big business a love letter to an american anti-hero”— Lex Fridman
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Star Trek
Gene Roddenberry (inferred)
“we have spock from star trek who is still a big deal but look at it this way which country is most comfortable with inegalitarian rewards”— guest
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Discord
Discord
“i used to use discord which is another service where people use voice so the only thing you do is just hear each other”— Lex Fridman
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Bitcoin
Bitcoin
“crypto per se i think bitcoin has taken over a lot of the space held by gold that to me seems sustainable”— guest
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Ethereum
Ethereum
“ether has some chance at that i would bet against it but i wouldn't give you a definitive no”— guest
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Dogecoin
Dogecoin
“deutsche coin which is basically by a single human being elon musk has been created you know it's like these celebrities can have a huge ripple effect”— Lex Fridman
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We the Living
Ayn Rand
“she mostly never talked about after writing we the living and she is much more russian than she seems at first”— guest
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The Essential Stalin
Bruce Franklin (inferred)
“he edited the book called the essential stalin brilliant guy i learned a tremendous amount from him”— guest
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Jiro Dreams of Sushi
David Gelb (inferred)
“you've written about giro dreams of sushi um it's just a really clean good example that people are aware of of mastery”— Lex Fridman
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The Sopranos
David Chase (inferred)
“when you see like russian characters on the sopranos yeah it totally makes sense even though they're these complete outlines”— guest
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams (inferred)
“it's almost like the hitchhiker's guide they kind of have what is it they have a one or two sentence description of the human”— Lex Fridman
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