On the Road

This book by Jack Kerouac was genuinely recommended once in the episodes we index, on Lex Fridman. The people who vouched for it on air: Lex Fridman. It comes up in conversations about consciousness, psychedelics, trauma & ptsd. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

Described as everything from a "last gasp" of romantic fiction to a founding text of the Beat Generation movement, this story amounts to a nonfiction novel (as critics were later to describe some works). Unpublished writer buddies wander from coast to coast in search of whatever they find, eager for experience. Kerouac's spokesman is Sal Paradise (himself) and real-life friend Neal Casady appears as Dean Moriarty.

• “I'm currently reading on the road by Jack Kerouac and uh would be remiss if I didn't mention one of my favorite quotes from that book”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “one of my favorite quotes from that book”
  Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 202300:01:02

  Said during "Aella: Sex Work, OnlyFans, Porn, Escorting, Dating, and Human Sexuality | Lex Fridman Podcast #358". The episode features Aella: A data-driven sex researcher and writer (blog knowinglust.com) who runs some of the largest human-sexuality surveys in the world. She is also a former cam girl and escort and a prolific creator of provocative Twitter polls. Sex researcher Aella tells Lex Fridman how a repressive homeschooling led to sex work and the world's largest fetish survey.