Guest on Lenny's Podcast
2 books recommended · 1 episode
Books they recommend that someone else wrote.
“One I read recently and is A Brief History of Intelligence. It's this really cool book that walks through the history of basically brains and five key moments in our evolution that sort of bootstrapped these brain systems on top of one another.”
Why: It is super accessible and you do not need any neuroscience knowledge.
A Brief History of Intelligence by Max Bennett
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“Another one is Story of Your Life and Others. This is Ted Chiang. This is maybe my favorite sci-fi book of all time. It's a bunch of short stories. It does what I think is the like high art version of sci-fi…”
Why: It takes one weird idea and writes a story of what the world would look like if that happened.
Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang
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