“"The Ancient City." - Yes. - By, if I could only pronounce the name,”
Books mentioned in Marc Andreessen: Trump, Power, Tech, AI, Immigration & Future of America | Lex Fridman Podcast #458
From Lex Fridman Podcast · 2025-01-26
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“"The Diversity Myth." - Yeah. - And he literally looked like he'd swallowed”
“of our time is the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski. And amidst his madness,”
“So it's called "Private Truths, Public Lies." And it's written”
“which is "The Power of the Powerless," you know, who is an anti-communist resistance fighter”
“"The True Believer," which is the Eric Hoffer book. And so the nuance you have to put on this”
“like it becomes the ring of power, right? Which is like, okay, now anybody in that company”
“like the Emperor's wearing no closed things where he said, "It's just not plausible”
“- If we can draw parallels to the Hobbit or whatever. (laughs)”
“called "The Machiavellians" by this guy James Burnham, who has had a big impact on me.”
“"The Federalist Papers," they argue this a great length. You can read it all.”
“And so again, if the, the Machiavellian's mindset on this is like, okay, how is power actually exercised here?”
“the "Decline and Fall of the American Programmer," you know, that predicted that these new coding systems”
“that Clay Christensen had in "The Innovator's Dilemma," which is sometimes when big companies don't do things,”