Books Recommended by Eric Weinstein
Heraclitean Fire
Erwin Chargaff
Source: "When I heard that there was somebody who bet against Watson and Crick, I thought, 'well, this is just gonna be the laugh of the century.' But it turned out, just to short those guys required another genius." - Eric Weinstein
Zero to One
Peter Thiel
Source: "If you really understand something that the rest of the world is confused about, and it’s an important truth, [this book] says here are all the ways you might want to make that work." - Eric Weinstein
All the Trouble in the World
P. J. O'Rourke
Source: "Politics aside, I envy more of his sentences than of anyone else writing today." - Eric Weinstein
Science Since Babylon
Derek De Solla Price
Source: Eric Weinstein recommended this book at a Sam Harris event in Boston.
The Emperor of Scent
Chandler Burr
Source: "A wonderful introduction to how the dissident voice is marginalized." - Eric Weinstein
Prison Diary
Jayaprakash Narayan
Source: "I suggest [this book] for this moment in our democracy." - Eric Weinstein
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
Rene Girard
Source: Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
The Theoretical Minimum
Leonard Susskind
Source: Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
Daemon
Daniel Suarez
Source: Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
Not Even Wrong
Peter Woit
Source: Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
Necessary Illusions
Noam Chomsky
Source: Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
A History of Economic Theory
Jürg Niehans
Source: Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
I Always Look Up the Word Egregious
Maxwell Nurnberg
Source: Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
The Strangest Man
Graham Farmelo
Source: Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
Save The Cat!
Blake Snyder
Source: Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
The Whole Shebang
Timothy Ferris
Source: Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
Accounting for Tastes
Gary S. Becker
Source: Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
Eat the Rich
P. J. O'Rourke
Source: Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
The True Believer
Eric Hoffer
Source: Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
36 Lectures in Biology
S.E. Luria
Source: Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
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