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Marc Lowell Andreessen (born July 9, 1971) is an American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer. He is the co-author of Mosaic, the first widely used web...

Marc Lowell Andreessen (born July 9, 1971) is an American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer. He is the co-author of Mosaic, the first widely used web browser; co-founder of Netscape; and co-founder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He founded and later sold the software company Opsware to Hewlett-Packard. Andreessen is also a co-founder of Ning, a company that provides a platform for social networking websites. He sits on the board of directors of Facebook. Andreessen was one of six inductees in the World Wide Web Hall of Fame announced at the First International Conference on the World-Wide Web in 1994.

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Ben's book choice #1 by @JoHenrich, which I also highly recommend: https://t.co/ZvVjYjHmG9
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The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
A bold, epic account of how the co-evolution of psychology and culture created the peculiar Western mind that has profoundly shaped the modern world. Perhaps you are WEIRD: raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. If so, you’re rather psychologically pecu
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On morality and politics, and on the two kinds of fairness, I can't recommend this book by @JonHaidt too highly: https://t.co/1cMGkWbdGq
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Why can’t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual
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Curated in "Books to Complement "It's Time to Build" Essay"
by @stewartbrand on why even environmentalists should be pro building, pro cities, pro nuclear, and pro genetic engineering.
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Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto
Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto
An icon of the environmental movement outlines a provocative approach for reclaiming our planet. According to Stewart Brand, a lifelong environmentalist who sees everything in terms of solvable design problems, three profound transformations are underway on Earth right now. Climate change is real
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Curated in "Books to Complement "It's Time to Build" Essay"
on how modern technological economies can build more outputs with less inputs, and why we need all economies to be modern and technological.
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More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources—and What Happens Next
More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources—and What Happens Next
From the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller The Second Machine Age, a compelling argument—masterfully researched and brilliantly articulated—that we have at last learned how to increase human prosperity while treading more lightly on our planet. Throughout history, the only way for humanity
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Recommended by Marc Andreessen and Noah Smith
Curated in "Books to Complement "It's Time to Build" Essay"
on how technology-driven productivity growth improves human welfare and creates more jobs and higher wages.
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The Power of Productivity: Wealth, Poverty, and the Threat to Global Stability
The Power of Productivity: Wealth, Poverty, and the Threat to Global Stability
The disparity between rich and poor countries is the most serious, intractable problem facing the world today. The chronic poverty of many nations affects more than the citizens and economies of those nations; it threatens global stability as the pressures of immigration become unsustainable and rog
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Recommended by Marc Andreessen
Curated in "Books to Complement "It's Time to Build" Essay"
on how economic systems that encourage aggressive entrepreneurship build the most for the benefit of the most.
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Recapturing Spirit of Enterprise
Recapturing Spirit of Enterprise
The wellspring of capital will not be found on Wall Street or in the stuffy halls of corporate America, but instead in the hopes and dreams of people who want to create new products and new approaches to problem solving. It is this wellspring that will ultimately cleanse the soul of corporate Americ
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Curated in "Books to Complement "It's Time to Build" Essay"
on how four great builders of the 19th century built the world we live in today.
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The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould and J.P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould and J.P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
“Makes a reader feel like a time traveler plopped down among men who were by turns vicious and visionary.”—The Christian Science Monitor The modern American economy was the creation of four men: Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan. They were the giants of the Gilded Ag
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Curated in "Books to Complement "It's Time to Build" Essay"
on perhaps the greatest American builder of all, the builder who brought electricity to us all, Thomas Edison.
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Edison
Edison
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history. Although Thomas Alva Edison was the most famous American of his time, and remains an international name today, he is mostly remembered only for the
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Curated in "Books to Complement "It's Time to Build" Essay"
on the central role cities play in our world and why it's so important for us to build them -- more, bigger, better.
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier by Edward Glaeser -- How cities drive the development of civilization, by putting people together. Highly relevant to the future of the Internet! https://t.co/pwrF7F1wRf
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Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier
A pioneering urban economist offers fascinating, even inspiring proof that the city is humanity's greatest invention and our best hope for the future. America is an urban nation. More than two thirds of us live on the 3 percent of land that contains our cities. Yet cities get a bad rap: they're d
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Curated in "Books to Complement "It's Time to Build" Essay"
on why we can't build in great American cities like San Francisco today and what we need to do about it.
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Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
A stunning, deeply reported investigation into the housing crisis Spacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. Today, however, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an econo
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Curated in "Books to Complement "It's Time to Build" Essay"
“An Apology For The Builder” by Nicholas Barbon, written in 1685. HT @tylercowen. Some things never change!
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An apology for the builder, or, A discourse shewing the cause and effects of the increase of building
An apology for the builder, or, A discourse shewing the cause and effects of the increase of building
To write of Architecture and its several parts, of Situation, Platforms of Building, and the quality of Materi∣als, with their Dimensions and Orna∣ments: To discourse of the several Orders of Co∣lumns, of the Tuscan, Dorick, Ionick, Corinthian, and composit, with the proper inrichments of their Ca∣p
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Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win by @jockowillink -- I hand out more copies of this book than any other. How to take responsibility for yourself and for those around you. Modern Stoicism, as applied in the military, business, and life. https://t.co/nMHkHxEqbm
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Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
The #1 New York Times bestseller "An incredible book... you teach guys and gals about leadership and you've helped not only military guys but families." - Megyn Kelly "You show in the book how to motivate... thanks for writing the book Extreme Ownership." Bill O'Reilly "[Jocko] is the co-author o
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Recommended by Tommy Collison and Marc Andreessen
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by @mattwridley -- Sparkling explanation of how the economy evolves, producing the glorious cornucopia of goods and services available all around us. How to feel good about the future even in dark times. https://t.co/cuTcvwLAzH
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The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
Life is getting better—and at an accelerating rate. Food availability, income, and life span are up; disease, child mortality, and violence are down — all across the globe. Though the world is far from perfect, necessities and luxuries alike are getting cheaper; population growth is slowing; Africa
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Recommended by Marc Andreessen and Naval Ravikant
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by @BenMacintyre1 -- True, chilling saga of straight up, profoundly deep treason and betrayal. Sociopaths in high positions of power and influence. Hair curling. https://t.co/g8EN2YMbMH
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A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
Master storyteller Ben Macintyre’s most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century’s greatest spy story. Kim Philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain’s counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold Wa
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How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by @Sarah_Bakewell -- "How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—All versions of a bigger question: How do you live?" https://t.co/t1vqlKqmG5
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How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An Answer
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An Answer
Brilliant, original, funny and moving — a vivid portrait of Montaigne, showing how his ideas gave birth to our modern sense of our inner selves, from Shakespeare's plays to the dilemmas we face today. How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you lov
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Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 by @MarcusLuttrell -- The film was fine but the book is unreal; incredibly vivid story of superlative American heroes. https://t.co/0g9dxSotMO
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Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
On a clear night in late June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in northern Afghanistan for the mountainous Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al Qaeda leader known to be ensconced in a Taliban stronghold surrounded by a small but heavily armed force. Less th
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A Very Expensive Poison: The Assassination of Alexander Litvinenko by @lukeharding1968 -- The astonishing story of the Litvinenko and Perepilichnyy assassinations in the UK; reads like a Lee Child thriller; plenty topical now. https://t.co/Qn4J13Qx9P
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A Very Expensive Poison: The Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko and Russia's War with the West
A Very Expensive Poison: The Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko and Russia's War with the West
1 November 2006. Alexander Litvinenko is brazenly poisoned in central London. Twenty two days later he dies, killed from the inside. The poison? Polonium; a rare, lethal and highly radioactive substance. His crime? He had made some powerful enemies in Russia. Based on the best part of a decade's re
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The Myth of the Rational Voter by @bryan_caplan -- "The median American is a moderate national socialist – statist to the core on both economic and social policy. Given public opinion, the policies of First World democracies are surprisingly libertarian." https://t.co/r5lfTdMgOk
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The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies
The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies
The greatest obstacle to sound economic policy is not entrenched special interests or rampant lobbying, but the popular misconceptions, irrational beliefs, and personal biases held by ordinary voters. This is economist Bryan Caplan's sobering assessment in this provocative and eye-opening book. Capl
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