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The Russo-Ukrainian War
Serhii Plokhy
“If forced to recommend two... I would say”
“If forced to recommend two, at this moment, I would say the Russo-Ukrainian War by Serhii Plokhy and The Showman by Simon Schuster”— Lex Fridman
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The Showman
Simon Shuster
“If forced to recommend two... I would say”
“and The Showman by Simon Schuster, which is a good personal behind-the-scenes biography of the President focused on 2022”— Lex Fridman
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Starlink
SpaceX (inferred)
“We are very grateful for Starlink... it helped us very much”
“We are very grateful for Starlink. It has helped. We used it after Russian missile attacks on the energy infrastructure”— Volodymyr Zelenskyy
ProductRecommended
Eleven Labs
ElevenLabs
“Please go support Eleven Labs. They are a great company”
“Please go support Eleven Labs. They are a great company and great people.”— Lex Fridman
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Story of Human Language (lecture series)
John McWhorter
“I recommend John McWhorter's books, and especially his lecture series”
“I recommend John McWhorter's books, and especially his lecture series for the great courses on language”— Lex Fridman
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Gulag
Anne Applebaum
“Both, I think, are extremely valuable”
“Anne Applebaum's book, Gulag, is very different from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago... Both, I think, are extremely valuable.”— Lex Fridman
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The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“Both, I think, are extremely valuable”
“the Gulag Archipelago. The latter is a literary, psychological, and personal portrait of Soviet society. Both, I think, are extremely valuable.”— Lex Fridman
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
William Shirer
“probably one of the greatest, if not the greatest, book on the Third Reich ever”
“he has written probably one of the greatest, if not the greatest, book on the Third Reich ever”— Lex Fridman
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Cursor
Anysphere (inferred)
“switched to... Cursor. And never looked back”
“in a single week recently, switched to VS Code. And then Cursor. And never looked back.”— Lex Fridman
Also referenced (named, not recommended)
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Animal Farm
George Orwell (inferred)
“chanting the latest slogans of the mass hysteria machine like sheep in Animal Farm”— Lex Fridman
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Diia
Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine (inferred)
“we also have our Diia, this is the name for all of these services... I think that is the most important”— Volodymyr Zelenskyy
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Red Famine
Anne Applebaum
“I read Red Famine by Anne Applebaum. It's about Holodomor. Does it directly relate to Zelenskyy? Not on the surface”— Lex Fridman
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Notion
Notion Labs (inferred)
“I'll write it down in Google Doc, sometimes use Notion or Obsidian. If I'm not on my computer, I'll use Google Keep.”— Lex Fridman
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Obsidian
Obsidian (inferred)
“I'll write it down in Google Doc, sometimes use Notion or Obsidian. If I'm not on my computer, I'll use Google Keep.”— Lex Fridman
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Hurt
Johnny Cash
“listening to hundreds of songs he produced and even learning some on guitar, like Hurt by Johnny Cash”— Lex Fridman
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Microsoft Surface
Microsoft
“Microsoft Surface propped up at eye level... The ergonomics of the setup, Surface at eye level, means that Lex cares about his health.”— Lex Fridman
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Adobe Premiere
Adobe
“lots of memory, good CPU, good GPU. All of that helps with video editing on Adobe Premiere.”— Lex Fridman
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