Animal Farm

This book by George Orwell has been genuinely recommended 3 times on Lex Fridman. The people who vouched for it on air: Lex Fridman. It comes up in conversations about consciousness, productivity & performance. The earliest recommendation we indexed is from Aug 2020 and the most recent from Dec 2020. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

Animal Farm is a brilliant political satire and a powerful and affecting story of revolutions and idealism, power and corruption. 'All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.' Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon and Snowball leads to the animals taking over the farm. Vowing to eliminate the terrible inequities of the farmyard, the renamed Animal Farm is organised to benefit all who walk on four legs. But as time passes, the ideals of the rebellion are corrupted, then forgotten.

• “i'm a huge fan of animal farm which is a kind of friendly as a friend of 1984 by orwell”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “i'm a huge fan of animal farm”
  Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 202002:14:57

  Said during "Dmitri Dolgov: Waymo and the Future of Self-Driving Cars | Lex Fridman Podcast #147". The episode features Dmitri Dolgov: CTO of Waymo, the autonomous driving company that began as Google's self-driving car project in 2009. He has worked on the project since the DARPA Urban Challenge era and helped lead it to the first at-scale public driverless ride-hailing deployment. Waymo CTO Dmitri Dolgov on building a truly driverless car, scaling beyond Phoenix, and why aggression isn't the same as good driving.

• “just the small Side Animal Farm is probably top I mean it's weird to say but I would say it's my favorite book”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “my favorite book”
  Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Nov 202000:32:05

  Said during "Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand and the Philosophy of Objectivism | Lex Fridman Podcast #138". The episode features Yaron Brook: Chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute, host of The Yaron Brook Show, and one of the world's best-known objectivist thinkers. He co-authored Free Market Revolution and Equal Is Unfair. Objectivist philosopher Yaron Brook makes the full case for Ayn Rand's reason, rational selfishness, and unbridled capitalism.

• “i've read animal farm by george orwell a ridiculous number of times so for me like that book it connects deeply somehow”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “that book it connects deeply somehow”
  Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 202002:42:56

  Said during "Russ Tedrake: Underactuated Robotics, Control, Dynamics and Touch | Lex Fridman Podcast #114". The episode features Russ Tedrake: Roboticist, MIT professor, and VP of robotics research at Toyota Research Institute. Known for underactuated robotics, control theory, MIT's DARPA Robotics Challenge team, and the Drake simulator. MIT roboticist Russ Tedrake on why robots should embrace contact, softness, and physics instead of fighting gravity.