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Reading List 📚

Society and Sovereignty

  • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg
  • The Network State by Balaji Srinivasan
  • A Lodging of Wayfaring Men by Paul Rosenberg

History and Philosophy

  • Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
  • Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse

Technology and Innovation

  • Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel
  • Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet by Chris Dixon
  • Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages by Carlota Perez

Product and Growth

  • Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth by Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares
  • The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
  • The Mom Test: How to talk to customers and learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you by Rob Fitzpatrick
  • Do Things that Don't Scale by Paul Graham
  • 1,000 True fans by Kevin Kelly
  • Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source SOftware by Nadia Eghbal
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