Entrepreneur and essayist; worked at Palantir on health and biology projects, and was a Visiting Scholar in AI at the Mercatus Center.
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maybe Shakespeare's uh history plays, uh there's a there's a set of them called the Henriad. Um so like Henry the fourth, Henry the 5th, Henry the 6th. I find most people don't read these. So, you know, they'll read Hamlet or McBth or whatever, but the Henry is absolutely incredible.
Lenny's Podcast, "How Palantir built the ultimate founder factory", lightning round, asked for the books they recommend most; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions).
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