What Do You Care What Other People Think
by Richard Feynman
Mentioned once across 1 show · first heard Jan 2026 on Huberman Lab.
The general take
Andrew Huberman considers this Feynman book wonderful, highlighting it as one of the great reads about Feynman alongside "Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman." He illustrates his appreciation by sharing an amusing anecdote about Feynman's mischievous nature, showing the book captures his unconventional personality and curious approach to the world.
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The New York Times best-selling sequel to "Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!" Like the "funny, brilliant, bawdy" ( The New Yorker ) "Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!" this book’s many stories―some funny, others intensely moving―display Richard P. Feynman’s unquenchable thirst for adventure and unparalleled ability to recount important moments from his life. Here we meet Feynman’s first wife, Arlene, who taught him of love’s irreducible mystery as she lay dying in a hospital bed while he worked on the atomic bomb at nearby Los Alamos. We listen to the fascinating narrative of the investigation into the space shuttle Challenger ’s explosion in 1986 and relive the moment when Feynman revealed the disaster’s cause through an elegant experiment: dropping a ring of rubber into a glass of cold water and pulling it out, misshapen. In "What Do You Care What Other People Think?"
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…referencing richard feynman autobiography about playful tinkering
“If you read any of the books about Feynman or by Feynman, surely you're joking Mr. Feynman, or what do you care what other people think? These are wonderful short stories, mostly about Feynman doing things like picking all the locks at the Los Alamos laboratory and putting all the top secret documents out on the floor of the office so that when people came in in the morning, they were all out there.”
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