89 Books Recommended by Eric Weinstein
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
Rene Girard
Source: "We [followers of Girard], had sort of a sense that we had figured out the truth about the world in a way that nobody else did." - Peter Thiel
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.
Zero to One
Peter Thiel
Source: Keith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post.
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: "I too enjoyed [this book]." - Jeff Dean
Science Since Babylon
Derek De Solla Price
Source: Eric Weinstein recommended this book at a Sam Harris event in Boston.
Save The Cat!
Blake Snyder
Source: "Smart in a lot of ways, but also, with all due respect to the smart guy who wrote it, sort of cynical and off-putting at times." - Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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: "This, to me, is one of the true classics of all time." - George Raveling
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
36 Lectures in Biology
S.E. Luria
Source: Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
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
The 4-Hour Workweek
Tim Ferriss
Source: "I was very affected by [this book]. I was like this guy has it figured out." - Jason Silva
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Elements of Information Theory
Thomas M. Cover
Source: "The BEST book [on information theory]." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
