May 2019 Reading List

An entirely false binary used to organize sources of impactful information from the past month

Thoughts

“The Emeril Lagasse Theory” – Practical knowledge and culture is not often transferable - Mark Rzepcynski

Feelings

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Venture Capital Learning

Deal Terms - Alex Wilmerding

Venture Deals - Brad Feld 

Misc.

The Long Way to a Small and Angry Planet - Becky Chambers

April 2019 Reading List

An entirely false binary used to organize sources of impactful information from the past month

Thoughts

Stoicism’s Appeal to the Rich and Powerful — Ada Palmer

The Business of Venture Capital —Mahendra Ramsinghani

Brian Singerman — Investing in the Best Founders — Invest with the Best

Antifragile Systems and Teams — Dave Zwieback

Matthew Walker, Ph.D., on Sleep Pts. I-III — Peter Attia’s “The Drive”

Feelings

Start Here Now — Susan Piver

When Leaving Becomes Arriving: Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Ending Relationships — Brain Pickings

The Monk Manifesto: Seven Principles for Living with Deep Intention — On Being

The Pocket Chögyam Trungpa — Chogyam Trungpa

Stress and the Social Self: How Relationships Affect Our Immune System — Brain Pickings

Anna Dostoyevskaya on the Secret to a Happy Marriage: Wisdom from One of History’s Truest and Most Beautiful Loves — Brain Pickings

Book

A Memory Called Empire — Arkady Martine

March 2019 Reading List

An entirely false binary used to organize sources of impactful information from the past month

Thoughts

How Technology Reduces Us, and What We As Designers Can Do About It— Michael Andrea

Building a remote-friendly company: an interview with Webflow CEO Vlad Magdalin — Shannon Fisher

STARK Math: The Journey Begins

• StarkWare: Transparent Computational Integrity — Software Engineering Daily (Podcast)

8 Nobel-Prize Winning Rules for Governance Design — Wendy Xiao Schadeck

Chaos Theory and the Logistic Map — Geoff Boeing

Markets are eating the world — Taylor Pearson

How to Understand and Mitigate Risk — Mr Hire

Episode 44 & 45: Naval Ravikant | End Games — Rob Reid (After On Podcast)

• Part One
• Part Two

Feelings

Poetry from the On Being Gathering David Whyte (Opening Night) — On Being (Podcast)

Excerpt from ‘In the Shelter’ — Pádraig Ó Tuama (Soundcloud)

On the Brink of Everything — Parker Palmer

Fierce with Reality: Living and Loving Well to the End — Parker Palmer

Sharon Olds — Odes to the ***** — On Being (Podcast)

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Misc.

Seven Surrenders — Ada Palmer

The Will To Battle — Ada Palmer

February 2019 Reading List

An entirely false binary to organize sources of information that were impactful this past month

Thoughts

New Power — Jeremy Heimans

The Wisdom of Crowds — James Surowiecki

Interview with Dr. Peter Turchin — Democrises (Podcast)

Sam Harris #1241 — The Joe Rogan Podcast

Feelings

Emotional Agility — The One You Feed (Podcast)

Awareness — Anthony De Mello

Practicing the Complex Yes — Kim Stafford

Misc.

Too Like the Lightening — Ada Palmer

14 Resources - Blockchain Foundations

#1 Start with Videos

Ever wonder how bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies) actually work?

The Building Blocks — An Overview of Crypto (a16z and Linda Xie)

Decrypting crypto, from bitcoin and blockchain to ICOs (a16z)

Cryptonetworks and Decentralization: Building Blocks (a16z)

#2 Build with Blog Posts

A Warm Welcome to Web3 and the Future of the Internet — ConsenSys

Why Decentralization Matters — Chris Dixon

WTF is the blockchain? — understanding the problem it solves before defining it — Mohit Mamoria on Hackernoon

A Beginner’s Guide to Blockchain Programming — Febin John James on Hackernoon

Understanding Web 3 — A User Controlled Internet — Coinbase

#3 Reinforce with Podcasts

Neha Narula on Blockchain (Sean Carroll’s Mindscape)

Tim Ferris <> Naval Ravikant <> Nick Szabo

Decentralization and Crypto, the Big Picture (a16z podcast)

Mental Models for Understanding Crypto Tokens (a16z podcast)

#4 And a MOOC to top it off

Blockchain: Foundations and Use Cases (ConsenSys Academy)