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Demis Hassabis Recommended Books
Demis Hassabis has recommended 23 books. Browse the complete reading list with quotes and sources below.
Demis Hassabis is the CEO and co-founder of DeepMind.
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Game Changer
AlphaZero's Groundbreaking Chess Strategies and the Promise of AI
by Matthew Sadler
"If you want to find out more [about] AlphaZero, I recommend checking out [this great book]." - Demis Hassabis (Source)
Sapiens
A Brief History, Book 1
by Yuval Noah Harari
"There's not many times where I read a book and come out with 20 new ideas I hadn't thought about before, and [this book] made me think like that." - Demis Hassabis (Source)
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Joe Rogan recommended this bookJoe Rogan
"It really puts in perspective how bizarre human beings are. It’s an awesome overview of our species." - Joe Rogan
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Bill Gates recommended this bookBill Gates
"I would recommend this book to anyone interested in a fun, engaging look at early human history." - Bill Gates
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Naval Ravikant recommended this bookNaval Ravikant
"Best book I've read in [2015]." - Naval Ravikant
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Lex Fridman recommended this bookLex Fridman
"Basically one of the things we've created here is we've imagined ideas that we all share." - Lex Fridman
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Mark Zuckerberg recommended this bookMark Zuckerberg
"A big history narrative of human civilization." - Mark Zuckerberg
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Peter Attia recommended this bookPeter Attia
One of Peter Attia's answers to "any books you feel would make your reading list?"
Peter Attia's recommendation of this book +25
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- Ashton Kutcher
"The brainy book I seem to be sharing or talking about the most lately." - Ashton Kutcher
- Whitney Cummings
"A great book about [how] we’ve evolved and why we have anxiety." - Whitney Cummings
- Richard Branson
"I just love the style of his writing." - Richard Branson
- Ray Dalio
Ray Dalio mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.
- Vinod Khosla
"A previous favorite." - Vinod Khosla
- James Cameron
"It explains human behavior and why we are the way we are in human civilization from soup to nuts. And I’ve read it now a couple of times. It’s a pretty astonishing book." - James Cameron
- Keith Rabois
Keith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post.
- Daniel Ek
"Both sobering and conservatively optimistic in equal measure." - Daniel Ek
- Reid Hoffman
"A grand theory of humanity." - Reid Hoffman
- Sam Kass
Sam Kass recommended this book in the "Tools of Titans" book.
- Sebastian Junger
"I’m going to give [this book] over and over again to everyone I know." - Sebastian Junger
- Kishore Biyani
"Fascinating because of its multi-disciplinary approach towards understanding human society, our behaviour and our future." - Kishore Biyani
- Ryan Shea
One of Ryan Shea's 4 answers to "what is the book (or books) you’ve given most as a gift?"
- Melinda Gates
Melinda Gates recommended this book on Likewise.com.
- Bill Gurley
"I really enjoyed [this book]." - Bill Gurley
- Karlie Kloss
"An amazing book on the beginning of humanity." - Karlie Kloss
- Anthony Pompliano
"[One of the] best books I read in 2017." - Anthony Pompliano
- Changpeng Zhao
"Gives me a greater perspective about how humans emerged and why we behave the way we do." - Changpeng Zhao
- PewDiePie
"Tells the major revolutions of human history." - PewDiePie
- Patrick O'Shaughnessy
"Provides a concise history of humankind and outlines why we have the psychology we do today." - Patrick O'Shaughnessy
- Chris Evans
"Truly mind-blowing. It’s changed the way I look at almost everything. I can’t endorse it enough." - Chris Evans
- Simon Mayo
"Love this book still." - Simon Mayo
- Penn Jillette
Penn Jillette mentioned this book in a New York Times interview.
- Mark Manson
Mark Manson recommended this book on his website.
- James Clear
"[One of] the 10 best nonfiction books of all-time." - James Clear
- Ashton Kutcher
Dreams of a Final Theory
The Scientist's Search for the Ultimate Laws of Nature
by Steven Weinberg
"All about a physicist struggling to find a final theory of everything." - Demis Hassabis (Source)
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David Deutsch recommended this bookDavid Deutsch
David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Fabric of Reality."
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Creativity, Inc.
Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
by Ed Catmull
"About Pixar." - Demis Hassabis (Source)
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Ezra Klein recommended this bookEzra Klein
"An amazing, amazing book." - Ezra Klein
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Mark Zuckerberg
"I love reading first-hand accounts about how people build great companies like Pixar and nurture innovation and creativity." - Mark Zuckerberg
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Jason Calacanis recommended this bookJason Calacanis
"Pixar has made some of the greatest stories of our time, but [the author]’s personal story, is perhaps the greatest story that has come out of Pixar." - Jason Calacanis
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Alexis Ohanian recommended this bookAlexis Ohanian
"Must read." - Alexis Ohanian
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Michael Mauboussin recommended this bookMichael Mauboussin
"Best business book I've read in a long time." - Michael Mauboussin
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Patrick O'Shaughnessy recommended this bookPatrick O'Shaughnessy
"One of the most entertaining and useful business books I’ve ever read." - Patrick O'Shaughnessy
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- Trung Phan
"About the Animation industry." - Trung Phan
- Trung Phan
Gödel, Escher, Bach
An Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
"Tying together Gödel's incompleteness theory with mathematics, with Escher's drawings, and Bach's fugues. And showing they're all related in some way." - Demis Hassabis (Source)
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Kevin Kelly recommended this bookKevin Kelly
"Over the years, I kept finding myself returning to its insights, and each time I would arrive at them at a deeper level." - Kevin Kelly
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Steve Jurvetson recommended this bookSteve Jurvetson
Steve Jurvetson mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.
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Naval Ravikant
"Amazing book, but good luck finishing it." - Naval Ravikant
Naval Ravikant's recommendation of this book - David Deutsch recommended this book
David Deutsch
David Deutsch recommended this book in his book "The Beginning of Infinity."
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Sahil Lavingia recommended this bookSahil Lavingia
Sahil Lavingia recommended this book on Notion.
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Chris Hayes recommended this bookChris Hayes
"Changed my life!" - Chris Hayes
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Foundation (7 books)
"One of the best science fiction series ever written." - Demis Hassabis (Source)
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Adam Gazzaley, Elon Musk, Lex Fridman, Naval Ravikant, Ryan Shea, Sam Altman, Stewart Brand, Austen Allred, Cameron Winklevoss, Sahil Lavingia
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