Books About Building for the Age of AI
Happy summer! In this episode, we share our favorite books on building, generalism, and AI's future — plus a candid take on the recent Anthropic jailbreak controversy and what Christians should bring to the table as AI development accelerates. Hope you enjoy!
Chapters
0:00 - Intro
04:47 - Why builders > consumers
11:02 - The case for being a generalist
17:41 - Lean Startup: still relevant?
31:58 - Understanding AI through an evolutionary lens
39:00 - Leadership lessons worth your time
Andrew's Books:
The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
Culture Making by Andy Crouch
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John C. Maxwell
(Bonus: Remaking the World by Andrew Wilson)
Joel's Books:
Range by David Epstein
$100M Offers by Alex Hormozi
His third "slot" is actually a pair — How to Create a Mind by Ray Kurzweil and A Brief History of Intelligence by Max Bennett, which he introduces together as one topic ("there's two books here that I've been looking at")
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Cohosted by Andrew Noble, Joel Jacob, and Austin Gravley. Original Music by Abigail Neale.
