Atlas Shrugged

This book by Ayn Rand has been genuinely recommended 2 times on Lex Fridman. The people who vouched for it on air: George Hotz, Yaron Brook. It comes up in conversations about consciousness, productivity & performance. The earliest recommendation we indexed is from Oct 2020 and the most recent from Nov 2020. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

The year 2005 marks Ayn Rand's Centennial Year.The astounding story of a man that said that he would stop the motor of the world-and did. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged is unlike any other book you have ever read.“A writer of great power. She has a subtle and ingenious mind and the capacity of writing brilliantly, beautifully, bitterly.”-The New York Times

• “so I would recommend everybody read Fountain Head and Atlas Shrugged”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “I would recommend everybody read”
  Yaron Brook · Lex Fridman Podcast · Nov 202001:15:31

  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.

• “the second book which is pornography it's called atlas shrugged it is a great book for a kind of framework of human relations”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “it is a great book for a kind of framework of human relations”
  George Hotz · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 202002:51:57

  Said during "George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets | Lex Fridman Podcast #132". The episode features George Hotz: Hacker known as geohot, famous for jailbreaking the iPhone and PlayStation 3. Founder of comma ai, which sells the $1,000 comma two device and open-source openpilot software for semi-autonomous driving. George Hotz riffs on hacking the simulation, crypto, immortality, and why end-to-end neural nets beat Tesla's task-by-task approach to self-driving.