Season of the Witch

This book by David Talbot has been genuinely recommended 2 times across 2 different shows: Andrew Huberman, Lex Fridman. The people who vouched for it on air: Nathan Lambert, Rick Rubin. It comes up in conversations about exercise & strength, meditation & mindfulness. The earliest recommendation we indexed is from Jan 2023 and the most recent from Jan 2026. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

Salon founder David Talbot chronicles the cultural history of San Francisco and from the late 1960s to the early 1980s when figures such as Harvey Milk, Janis Joplin, Jim Jones, and Bill Walsh helped usher from backwater city to thriving metropolis.

• “It's a great book, Season of the Witch. I recommend it. A bunch of my SF friends who get out recommended it to me.”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “It's a great book, Season of the Witch. I recommend it”
  Nathan Lambert · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 202602:28:01

  Said during "State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #490". The episode features Sebastian Raschka and Nathan Lambert: Sebastian Raschka is a machine learning researcher and author of 'Build a Large Language Model from Scratch' and 'Build a Reasoning Model from Scratch.' Nathan Lambert is the post-training lead at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) and author of a definitive book on Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback. Lex Fridman, Sebastian Raschka, and Nathan Lambert survey the 2026 state of AI: LLMs, scaling, open models, China, agents, and AGI.

• “Did you read Season of the Witch. It's about San Francisco in the '60s. It's great. You'll love it. Great book.”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “It's great. You'll love it. Great book.”
  Rick Rubin · Huberman Lab · Jan 202302:24:50

  Said during "How to Access Your Creativity | Rick Rubin". The episode features Rick Rubin: One of the most prolific music producers of all time, having worked with artists from LL Cool J and Beastie Boys to Johnny Cash, Adele, and Metallica. Author of the book on creativity, The Creative Act: A Way of Being. Legendary producer Rick Rubin and neuroscientist Andrew Huberman explore where creativity comes from and how to access it.