While reading The Maniac, I realized that this book was already on my reading list thanks to a recommendation from Christopher Nolan, who himself had been introduced to it by Alejandro González Iñárritu.
Nolan’s recommendation:
It’s a fabulous book that deals with a lot of the things that Oppenheimer deals with. It deals with these brilliant minds and all sorts of extraordinary things in history. Very readable. I highly recommend it.
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The MANIAC
I picked up The Maniac after Austin Kleon called it one of the best things he read in 2024. It’s “a fictionalized biography of John von Neumann, focused on the rise of artificial intelligence, the atomic bomb, and …