Eric Weinstein is a mathematician and physicist who serves as managing director at Thiel Capital. He developed geometric unity, a proposed unified theory of physics, and hosts The Portal, a long-form interview podcast exploring unconventional ideas across science, mathematics, and culture.
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The 4-Hour Workweek
27 people recommendedrecommended 2xEric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
Also recommended by: Eric Jorgenson, Ev Williams, Marc Andreessen, Tim Draper, Aj Jacobs, Blake Mycoskie, Caterina Fake, Charles Poliquin, Brian Dean, Daniel Pink, David Heinemeier Hansson, Derek Sivers, Gary Keller, Jason Silva, Jodie Cook, Laura R Walker, Lewis Howes, Marc Goodman, Mark Bell, Maurice Ashley, Michael Hyatt, Mike Maples Jr, Mike Shinoda, Rolf Potts, Tristan Harris, Walter Isaacson
Zero to One
24 people recommendedrecommended 2xIf you really understand something that the rest of the world is confused about, and itβs an important truth, [this book] says here are all the ways you might want to make that work.
If you really understand something that the rest of the world is confused about, and itβs an important truth, [this book] says here are all the ways you might want to make that work.
Also recommended by: Elon Musk, Eric Jorgenson, Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Kishore Biyani, Marc Andreessen, Rupert Murdoch, Sam Altman, Andrew Ng, Ben Horowitz, Bryan Johnson, Brian Dean, Chris Dixon, Keith Rabois, Lee Stranahan, Luis Von Ahn, Matt Mullenweg, Max Levchin, Nassim Taleb, Patrick Oshaughnessy, Ryan Petersen, Tom Bilyeu, Derek Sivers
The True Believer
8 people recommendedrecommended 2xEric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
Also recommended by: Mark Cuban, Marc Andreessen, Patrick Bet David, George Raveling, Mark Manson, Patrick Oshaughnessy, Seth Godin
The Denial of Death
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Also recommended by: Darren Aronofsky, Jason Silva, Jordan Peterson, Marc Maron, Mark Manson, Shay Carl, Tai Lopez
Save The Cat!
5 people recommendedEric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
Also recommended by: Donald Miller, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Neville Medhora, Tim Ferriss
Daemon
3 people recommendedEric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
Also recommended by: Elon Musk, Alexis Ohanian
Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
Also recommended by: Ev Williams, Patrick Oshaughnessy
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
3 people recommendedrecommended 2xEric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
Also recommended by: Warren Buffett, Brad Delong
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
2 people recommendedrecommended 2xEric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
Also recommended by: Peter Thiel
The Strangest Man
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Also recommended by: Jeff Dean
Elements of Information Theory
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Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
Also recommended by: Nassim Taleb
Bloodlands
2 people recommendedrecommended 2xEric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
Also recommended by: Peter Thiel
More Heat than Light
2 people recommendedEric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
Also recommended by: Michael Mauboussin
The Theoretical Minimum
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Necessary Illusions
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A History of Economic Theory
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I Always Look Up the Word Egregious
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Science Since Babylon
Eric Weinstein recommended this book at a Sam Harris event in Boston.
Accounting for Tastes
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Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
Eat the Rich
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Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
Heraclitean Fire
recommended 2xWhen 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.
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.
All the Trouble in the World
recommended 2xPolitics aside, I envy more of his sentences than of anyone else writing today.
Politics aside, I envy more of his sentences than of anyone else writing today.
36 Lectures in Biology
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Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
Basic Algebra I
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Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
The Loom of Language
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Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
An Elementary Primer For Gauge Theory
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Father to Son
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Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
Symmetry
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Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
The Jazz of Physics
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The Geometric Universe
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Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
The Emperor of Scent
recommended 2xA wonderful introduction to how the dissident voice is marginalized.
A wonderful introduction to how the dissident voice is marginalized.
Peddling Prosperity
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A Guide to LATEX
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Pattern Classification
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Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
A Literary Companion to Science
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Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
The Penguin Russian Course
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Age and Guile
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Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
Introduction to Econometrics
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The Beat of a Different Drum
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The Annotated Alice
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Calculus On Manifolds
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QED and the Men Who Made It
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Out of My Later Years
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Elements of the Theory of Computation
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Concepts of Particle Physics
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Introductory Econometrics
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Encyclopedia of Physics
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The Diary of Anais Nin
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Grand Unified Theories
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Topics in Advanced Scientific Computation
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The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time
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100 Great Operas And Their Stories
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Introduction to Linear Algebra
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Differential Topology
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Essential Relativity
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Teach Yourself Hindi
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Analysis, Manifolds and Physics, Part 1
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Everyday Indonesian
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Modern Elementary Particle Physics
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Encyclopedia of Cosmology
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General Relativity for Mathematicians
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Introduction to Superstrings
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Modern Geometry β Methods and Applications
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Spoken and Written Hindi
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Topology and Analysis
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Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology
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Gauge Theories Of Strong, Weak, And Electromagnetic Interactions
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Principles of Quantum Mechanics
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Quantum Field Theory and Topology
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Aspects of Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime
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Lie Algebras In Particle Physics
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Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
The Ideas of Particle Physics
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Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
Prison Diary
recommended 2xI suggest [this book] for this moment in our democracy.
I suggest [this book] for this moment in our democracy.
