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Barefoot Running (by Barefoot Ken Bob Saxton)
Ken Bob Saxton
“his book captured the right way to describe barefoot running better than any other i've seen”
“ken bob barefoot ken bob saxton he's an interesting guy but i think his book captured the right way to describe barefoot running better than any other i've seen”— guest
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Fooled by Randomness
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“highly recommend them”
“there's a great book by the way a series of books by nicholas taleb about fooled by randomness and black swan highly recommend them”— guest
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The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“highly recommend them”
“a series of books by nicholas taleb about fooled by randomness and black swan highly recommend them”— guest
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Skydio R1
Skydio
“love it”
“and i have a skydio r1 love it so no i would i would absolutely be a customer”— guest
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Big Hero 6
Walt Disney Animation Studios (inferred)
“baymax is just awesome”
“i think baymax is just awesome that's just like the movie of big hero 6 and the concept of baymax that's just awesome”— guest
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AI Superpowers
Kai-Fu Lee
“is just a fantastic read you must read that”
“like ai superpowers by kaifuli is just a fantastic read you must read that”— guest
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Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
“that can open your mind”
“yuval harari is just i think that can open your mind sapiens sapiens as the first one homo deuce is the second”— guest
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Homo Deus
Yuval Noah Harari
“that can open your mind”
“yuval harari is just i think that can open your mind sapiens sapiens as the first one homo deuce is the second”— guest
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How to Read a Book
Mortimer Adler
“some people hate that book i loved it”
“i actually recently read mortimer adler's how to read a book some people hate that book i loved it”— guest
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Animal Farm
George Orwell
“for me like that book it connects deeply somehow”
“i've read animal farm by george orwell a ridiculous number of times so for me like that book it connects deeply somehow”— Lex Fridman
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The Office (UK)
BBC (inferred)
“not to steer up trouble but i personally think the british version is actually more brilliant than the american one but both are amazing”— Lex Fridman
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Born to Run
Christopher McDougall (inferred)
“so i did eventually read born to run most people read born to run in the first thing right”— guest
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Black Mirror
Charlie Brooker (inferred)
“i don't know if you've seen the black mirror it's funny i never watched the episode i know when it happened though”— Lex Fridman
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The Terminator
James Cameron (inferred)
“i think in my age in the u.s we grew up watching terminator right if i had grown up at the same time in japan”— guest
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Astro Boy
Osamu Tezuka (inferred)
“if i had grown up at the same time in japan i probably would have been watching astro boy and there's a very different reaction to robots”— guest
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Flesh and Machines
Rodney Brooks
“he's got a book flesh and machines i believe it's not going to be the robots versus the people we're all going to be robot people”— guest
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