Book · recommended on 2 episodes
Season of the Witch
David Talbot ISBN 1439108218
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David Talbot ISBN 1439108218
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This book by David Talbot has come up 2 times across 2 different shows: Andrew Huberman, Lex Fridman. 2 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Nathan Lambert, Rick Rubin. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2023-01-16 and the most recent from 2026-01-31. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
Salon founder David Talbot chronicles the cultural history of San Francisco and from the late 1960s to the early 1980s when figures such as Harvey Milk, Janis Joplin, Jim Jones, and Bill Walsh helped usher from backwater city to thriving metropolis.
“It's a great book, Season of the Witch. I recommend it. A bunch of my SF friends who get out recommended it to me.”— Nathan Lambert
The guest here is Sebastian Raschka and Nathan Lambert: Sebastian Raschka is a machine learning researcher and author of 'Build a Large Language Model from Scratch' and 'Build a Reasoning Model from Scratch.' Nathan Lambert is the post-training lead at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) and author of a definitive book on Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback. Lex Fridman, Sebastian Raschka, and Nathan Lambert survey the 2026 state of AI: LLMs, scaling, open models, China, agents, and AGI.
“Did you read Season of the Witch. It's about San Francisco in the '60s. It's great. You'll love it. Great book.”— Rick Rubin
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