
Wrote The Network State: How to Start a New Country and founded the Network School, a retreat for entrepreneurs and technicians; earlier worked at Coinbase and Andreessen Horowitz.
1 book of their own · 75 articles · 87 books they recommend · 65 appearances
Argument that online communities can become sovereign; crypto-native politics
Recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, Brian Armstrong and 4 others
The Network State | Argument that online communities can become sovereign; crypto-native politics | 2022 | T3 | Balaji S. Srinivasan, Brian Armstrong, Eric Jorgenson and 3 others |
Why large state plans fail when they override local, practical knowledge.
Also recommended by: Nat Eliason
Asia as one order from Saudi Arabia to Japan, linking five billion people by trade.
Argument that online communities can become sovereign; crypto-native politics
Also recommended by: Brian Armstrong, Eric Jorgenson and 3 others
1997 forecast of digital money weakening the nation state
Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Patrick Collison, Shane Parrish and 9 others
American history as a repeating cycle of four generational turnings, each 20 years.
Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Packy McCormick, Raoul Pal and 1 other
Innovation is gradual, collective and bottom-up, not the work of lone inventors.
Source: Network School Curriculum — balajis.com ('Topics, reading, and speakers')
Also recommended by: Naval Ravikant
The knowledge survivors would need to rebuild technological society after a collapse.
Source: Network School Curriculum — balajis.com ('Topics, reading, and speakers')
Also recommended by: Patrick Collison
How ancient DNA has rewritten the story of human prehistory and migration.
Source: Network School Curriculum — balajis.com ('Topics, reading, and speakers')
Also recommended by: Marc Andreessen, Michael Mauboussin and 1 other
How Bitcoin works underneath: keys, addresses, transactions, mining and the network.
How the internet changed politics and economies in Iran, Estonia, Korea and Senegal.
Also recommended by: Patrick Collison
Also recommended by: Patrick Collison
How open-source software is really made and maintained, often by a few people.
Also recommended by: Delian Asparouhov
The emptying of America's mental hospitals, told through one mentally ill brother.
The 1918 Spanish flu, which killed 50 to 100 million, through history and science.
The 1918 flu: how it spread from a Kansas army camp and killed up to 100 million.
Also recommended by: Bill Gates
Sound money must hold value over time, and Bitcoin's fixed supply makes it such.
Source: Network School Curriculum — balajis.com ('Topics, reading, and speakers')
Also recommended by: Alex Lieberman, Raoul Pal
Eight centuries of price revolutions and what ended each one.
Also recommended by: Ryan Peterson
Also recommended by: David Friedberg, Jamie Dimon, Sarah Pritula
The Great Depression told through the stories of the common people who endured it.
What Germany's 1921 to 1923 hyperinflation did to ordinary people's lives.
Build habits by making them obvious, attractive, easy and satisfying.
Source: Network School Curriculum — balajis.com ('Topics, reading, and speakers')
Also recommended by: Ali Abdaal, Nat Eliason, Ana Fabrega and 19 others
Distraction comes from escaping discomfort, not technology, and how to manage it.
Also recommended by: Nir Eyal, Alexis Ohanian, Allen Gannett and 3 others
How Singapore's leaders chose policies, from courting multinationals onward.
Source: Network School Curriculum — balajis.com ('Topics, reading, and speakers')
Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Patrick Collison
How a New York Times reporter's coverage of Castro shaped American views of Cuba.
Management as production: a manager's output is the output of the team they lead.
Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Tim Ferriss, Andrew Chen and 23 others
How to spot a strategic inflection point, when a tenfold force changes a business.
Also recommended by: Charlie Munger, Mohnish Pabrai and 10 others
Netflix from its 1997 founding to Qwikster in 2011, and its war with Blockbuster.
Subtitled 'Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers'
Source: Network School Curriculum — balajis.com ('Topics, reading, and speakers')
Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Nat Eliason, Alfred Lin and 32 others
Why Israel produces so many tech start-ups, from military service to immigration.
Source: Network School Curriculum — balajis.com ('Topics, reading, and speakers')
Also recommended by: Bill Gates
How an unelected official amassed power and used it to rebuild New York.
Source: Network School Curriculum — balajis.com ('Topics, reading, and speakers')
Also recommended by: Jim Collins, Nat Eliason, Ryan Holiday and 6 others
A thriller about a computer program that runs on after its creator's death.
Source: Network School Curriculum — balajis.com ('Topics, reading, and speakers')
Also recommended by: Alexis Ohanian, Elon Musk, Eric Weinstein
A novel: a mathematician foresees an empire's fall and plans to shorten the dark age.
Source: Network School Curriculum — balajis.com ('Topics, reading, and speakers')
Also recommended by: Adam Gazzaley, Austen Allred and 10 others
History told through energy, from muscle and fire to coal, oil and electricity.
Source: Network School Curriculum — balajis.com ('Topics, reading, and speakers')
Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Nat Eliason
Recurring patterns drawn from world history: biology, morals, religion, economics.
Source: Network School Curriculum — balajis.com ('Topics, reading, and speakers')
Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Nat Eliason and 11 others
Writing advice focused on the fears and habits that stop people writing.
Also recommended by: Maria Popova, Matt Mullenweg, Morgan Housel and 6 others
Also recommended by: Patrick Collison, Audrey Gelman
Source: Network School Curriculum — balajis.com ('Topics, reading, and speakers')
Also recommended by: Ryan Holiday
Drawn reconstructions of buildings that open up two ancient cities and their people.
Source: Network School Curriculum — balajis.com ('Topics, reading, and speakers')
Also recommended by: Paul Graham
Why China may match the US in AI now that applying it matters more than research.
Also recommended by: Alfred Lin, Arianna Huffington and 1 other
Selection acts on genes; bodies are vehicles that genes build to copy themselves.
Source: Network School Curriculum — balajis.com ('Topics, reading, and speakers')
Also recommended by: Charlie Munger, Mohnish Pabrai, Bob Metcalfe and 8 others
Naval Ravikant's ideas on building wealth and being happy, gathered from his talks.
Source: Network School Curriculum — balajis.com ('Topics, reading, and speakers')
Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Alex and Books, Ana Fabrega and 7 others
How scientists came to know what they know, from cosmology and geology to biology.
Source: Network School Curriculum — balajis.com ('Topics, reading, and speakers')
Also recommended by: Jim Collins, Mohnish Pabrai, Jamie Dimon and 3 others
An operating manual for founders scaling from a few people to a few hundred.
Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Alexis Ohanian, Ali Abdaal and 3 others
Nearly 200 entries by leading mathematicians on modern maths and its core ideas.
Also recommended by: Patrick Collison
Operating manual for scaling a company from fifty to thousands
Source: Network School Curriculum — balajis.com ('Topics, reading, and speakers')
Also recommended by: Matt Mullenweg, Aaron Levie, Alexis Ohanian and 8 others
Why startups should build something new and own a small market before growing.
Source: Network School Curriculum — balajis.com ('Topics, reading, and speakers')
Also recommended by: Eric Weinstein, Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason and 34 others
| The Tech Baron Seeking to Purge San Francisco of "Blues" | The New Republic | 2024 |
| Would You Ditch All This Chaos for a Country in the Cloud? Paywall | Wired | 2022 |