Balaji Srinivasan Recommended Books

"We've all read Grove." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

"A history of the Chinese tech ecosystem." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

"The desert island book. So good." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

"[Brian Armstrong] and I used parts of this at Coinbase." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

"Useful as an alternate perspective on the era." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

"[The author] is very smart and it’s worth reading anything she writes on open source." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

"Was written in a few days by N people, one chapter each, and then published on Amazon." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

"A good read for crypto people." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

Balaji Srinivasan mentioned this book on Twitter. (Source)

Balaji Srinivasan mentioned this book on Twitter. (Source)

Balaji Srinivasan mentioned this book on Twitter. (Source)

Balaji Srinivasan recommended this book on Twitter. (Source)

Balaji Srinivasan recommended this book on Twitter. (Source)

Balaji Srinivasan recommended this book on Twitter. (Source)

Balaji Srinivasan recommended this book on Twitter. (Source)

Balaji Srinivasan recommended this book on Twitter. (Source)

"I love [this] book!" - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

"Blockbuster tried to buy Hollywood Video, but the FTC called this off on antitrust (!) grounds. By 2010 Blockbuster was bankrupt and Netflix was soaring." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

Balaji Srinivasan mentioned this book on Twitter. (Source)

"Short and well worth reading. Presages much of today's train crash on social media." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

"An accessible explanation of how blockchains allow us to establish certain kinds of truths even in adversarial environments." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

Balaji Srinivasan mentioned this book on Twitter. (Source)

"A lot of fun. Not exactly art, but novel approach with a lot of visual inspiration." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

"The American century is ending. The Asian century is beginning." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

"Gold from the Americas did flood Europe in the 1500s, which helped cause inflation." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

"[The author's] thesis is that America is increasingly becoming a virtual society, focused on make-believe above all. I have to agree." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

"[The author] was to Bitcoin what Andrew Yang is to startup societies." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

"There’s a sense in which the term 'real name' is a misnomer. A better term is a state name — a name which makes you legible to the state." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

Balaji Srinivasan recommended this book on Twitter. (Source)

"Don't judge this self-published book by its cover, just read it." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

"The US military has a perfect record in its war games with China. China has won every round." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

"I put it up there with the top five books I recommend." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

"One may have to set aside ego to read it." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

"Makes the case that Xi could be felled by his internal enemies (possible!) and that this will lead to democratization (IMO implausible)." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

"Useful for anyone trying to bootstrap a new community or network, which is virtually every founder these days." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

"Decent book — by a central banker! — on the lack of legitimacy of central banking and the regulatory state writ large." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

"In terms of just packing a punch per page I really enjoyed this back in the day." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

Balaji Srinivasan recommended this book in "The Almanack of Balaji Srinivasan." (Source)

"Teaches you how to test things that are bigger than just a simple function." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

Balaji Srinivasan recommended this book in "The Almanack of Balaji Srinivasan." (Source)

"How tech founders always had to fight against the establishment, just like the present day." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

"If you want to find startup ideas here’s the book." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

"People get really amped about a technology, then you try to actually do it, you find it’s actually hard, most people get demoralized and they quit." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

"Tackles the problem of modern distraction by empowering us to break the bad habits at the root of the issue." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

"The brief argument is: our true history is written in our genes." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

"The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

"How today’s America resembles the Dutch and British empires of the past in terms of its monetary overextension." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

"How a cyclic theory of history forecasts a serious American conflict in the 2020s (written in the mid-1990s)." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

"Reminds us that the tech era is very new, only really about 10 years old, and only began in earnest with iPhone adoption." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

"A broad survey of Western historical anomalies, with a focus on the 19th and 20th centuries." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

"How quantitative methods can identify recurrent cycles." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

"It’s amazing how many people have studied accounting or something, but you just give them Schaums and ask them to do the first 10 problems in accounting, they struggle." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

"Requires more energy to read, but it keeps you sharp." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

Balaji Srinivasan recommended this book in "The Almanack of Balaji Srinivasan." (Source)

"I’ve always liked compendium." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

"Fun book proposes plotting all complex functions as colored contour plots. Kind of an obvious idea, but it's carried through systematically here." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

Balaji Srinivasan recommended this book in "The Almanack of Balaji Srinivasan." (Source)

"Talks about how the invention of fire allowed humans as species to outsource our metabolism to the fire and allocate more of our scarce calories to the brain." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

"Most people don't really hear bad things about the FDA. This book taught me why." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

"Anyone working on NFT collections should understand the history of the Freemasons. Many of their rituals could be usefully updated for the digital era." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

"All about enforcement discretion." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

"How the Soviet Union actually worked." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

"How different groups of capitalists funded the communist revolution." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)

"How different groups of capitalists funded the fascist revolution." - Balaji Srinivasan (Source)