The fourth turning

William Strauss

Recommended on Lex Fridman Podcast, most recently on 2026-08-26.

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Where it came up

• Lex Fridman Podcast · DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501 · at 4:12:00 · 2026-08-26

  “I read this book The Fourth Turning. You check that out. It talks about this notion of history working in cycles, and there are these, phases to history, and they name them and so forth.”Recommended

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