Brave New World

This book by Aldous Huxley has been genuinely recommended 3 times across 2 different shows: Lex Fridman, Tim Ferriss. The people who vouched for it on air: Dan Kokotov, Yuval Noah Harari. It comes up in conversations about meditation & mindfulness, productivity & performance. The earliest recommendation we indexed is from Jun 2020 and the most recent from Jan 2021. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

Originally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before. Cloning, feel-good drugs, antiaging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media -- has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a storyteller's genius, he weaves these ethical controversies in a compelling narrative that dawns in the year 632 AF (After Ford, the deity). When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity.

• “one is brave new world by aldous huxley um and it's kind of incredible how prescient he was”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “that's the book that's i think a worthwhile read for everyone”
  Dan Kokotov · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 202101:09:56

  Said during "Dan Kokotov: Speech Recognition with AI and Humans | Lex Fridman Podcast #151". The episode features Dan Kokotov: VP of Engineering at Rev.ai, the speech-to-text company behind Rev.com's human captioning/transcription and its ASR engine. A programmer-turned-manager who immigrated from Russia in 1991. Rev's VP of engineering explains how AI and human transcribers combine to build the world's best speech-to-text engine.

• “the aldous huxley and brave new world yeah brave the world i it really had really really deep impact on me um because i think he really got it”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “it really had really really deep impact on me um because i think he really got it”
  Yuval Noah Harari · The Tim Ferriss Show · Oct 202000:55:35

  Said during "Yuval Noah Harari on The Story of Sapiens, The Power of Awareness, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show". The episode features Yuval Noah Harari: Historian and best-selling author of Sapiens, Homo Deus, and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, considered one of the world's most influential public intellectuals. A longtime Vipassana meditation practitioner who has now adapted Sapiens into a graphic novel series. Yuval Noah Harari on meditation, the fictional stories that bind humanity, suffering as a test of reality, and the existential risks ahead.

• “Aldous Huxley's brave new world I think it is the most prophetic book of the 20th century and the most profound discussion of happiness in modern Western philosophy”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “I think it is the most prophetic book of the 20th century and the most profound discussion of happiness in modern Western philosophy”
  Yuval Noah Harari · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 202000:42:11

  Said during "Tribe of Mentors, Naval Ravikant, Susan Cain, and Yuval Noah Harari | The Tim Ferriss Show". The episode features Naval Ravikant, Susan Cain, and Yuval Noah Harari: A compilation of three Tribe of Mentors profiles. Naval Ravikant is CEO and co-founder of AngelList and a prolific angel investor; Susan Cain is the bestselling author of Quiet and co-founder of Quiet Revolution; Yuval Noah Harari is a historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and author of Sapiens and Homo Deus. Tim Ferriss introduces Tribe of Mentors, then shares profiles of Naval Ravikant, Susan Cain, and Yuval Noah Harari.