Collection
Summer Reads
Some summer reads from a16z crypto — covering everything from algorithms, cryptography, markets, and system design to time travel, space, food, and philosophy. Reading for education or entertainment, non-fiction or fiction, there’s something on this list for everyone. 📚🧵👇
- Curated in Summer Reads
You will love this book. It applies famous algorithms and data structures to things we do in life everyday.
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- Curated in Summer Reads
Relevant to what crypto addresses today: the characters get screwed out of ownership as creators.
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- Curated in Summer Reads
Read these, and in this order, to experience the brilliant ‘multiverse’ realities that Mandel stitches together across several characters and time periods.
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- Curated in Summer Reads
This collects many of the all-time great time-travel short stories, a great way to discover authors you might not have heard of before.
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- Curated in Summer Reads
A fantastic overview of humanity’s relationship with the stars, and how that relationship has affected society throughout time.
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- Curated in Summer Reads
The world has dwelt on the science that Einstein pioneered, yet is largely unaware of his good works to help others; this short book shows another side to him.
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- Curated in Summer Reads
After chronicling the long arc of human history in Sapiens, Harari casts his gaze forward to the as-yet-unwritten future of our species. He puts into perspective just how epochal a time it is to be alive today.
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- Curated in Summer Reads
Gathering IRL is a fundamental human need, but too often gatherings are wasted. This book provides approaches for how to gather more meaningfully.
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- Curated in Summer Reads
Flush with secretive letters, nostalgic analogies, and alter egos, this exploration into fantasy is both lighthearted and substantive.
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- Curated in Summer Reads
This classic and vivid work of sociology explores how auctions have emerged throughout society as a way of establishing community consensus around value.
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- Curated in Summer Reads
An amazing modern sci-fi novel that partly inspired @VitalikButerin's ideas of DAOs.
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- Curated in Summer Reads
If you aren’t already intimately familiar with chaos theory, it may reshape how you see the world today.
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