Book · recommended on 2 episodes
The Ancient City
Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
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Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
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This book by Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges has come up 2 times on Lex Fridman. 2 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Marc Andreessen. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2023-06-22 and the most recent from 2025-01-26. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“You've mentioned in the past the book "The Ancient City." ... this is an important book to understand who we are and where we come from.”— Marc Andreessen
The guest here is Marc Andreessen: Visionary tech leader and investor who co-created Mosaic, the first widely used web browser, and co-founded Netscape and the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is an influential voice at the intersection of technology and politics. Marc Andreessen on a coming American boom, censorship, university rot, the iron law of oligarchy, immigration, DOGE, and AI's trillion-dollar questions.
“the single best book I have found on who we are and how we got here is the ancient city uh by Numa Dennis FAL de kulanis”— Marc Andreessen
The guest here is Marc Andreessen: Co-creator of Mosaic, the first widely used web browser, and co-founder of Netscape. He is also co-founder of the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and one of the most outspoken voices on technology and AI. Marc Andreessen makes the optimistic case for AI, argues against AI doom as a quasi-religious cult, and traces the future of the internet.
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