73 Balaji Srinivasan Recommended Books

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"I’ve always liked compendium." - Balaji Srinivasan [Source]

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Balaji Srinivasan recommended this book in "The Almanack of Balaji Srinivasan." [Source]

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

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"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]

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

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Balaji Srinivasan recommended this book on Twitter. [Source]

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Balaji Srinivasan recommended this book on Twitter. [Source]

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Balaji Srinivasan mentioned this book on Twitter. [Source]

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"How quantitative methods can identify recurrent cycles." - Balaji Srinivasan [Source]

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Balaji Srinivasan mentioned this book on Twitter. [Source]

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"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]

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"How different groups of capitalists funded the communist revolution." - Balaji Srinivasan [Source]

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"We've all read Grove." - Balaji Srinivasan [Source]

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"The American century is ending. The Asian century is beginning." - Balaji Srinivasan [Source]

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

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"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]

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

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

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

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

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"A good read for crypto people." - Balaji Srinivasan [Source]

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

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"How different groups of capitalists funded the fascist revolution." - Balaji Srinivasan [Source]

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"The desert island book. So good." - Balaji Srinivasan [Source]

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Balaji Srinivasan recommended this book on Twitter. [Source]

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"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]

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Balaji Srinivasan recommended this book on Twitter. [Source]

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

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

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Balaji Srinivasan mentioned this book on Twitter. [Source]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Balaji Srinivasan recommended this book in "The Almanack of Balaji Srinivasan." [Source]

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

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"How the Soviet Union actually worked." - Balaji Srinivasan [Source]

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Balaji Srinivasan mentioned this book on Twitter. [Source]

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"Useful as an alternate perspective on the era." - Balaji Srinivasan [Source]

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Balaji Srinivasan recommended this book in "The Almanack of Balaji Srinivasan." [Source]

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

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Balaji Srinivasan recommended this book on Twitter. [Source]

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"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]

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"[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]

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"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]

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"One may have to set aside ego to read it." - Balaji Srinivasan [Source]

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Balaji Srinivasan recommended this book in "The Almanack of Balaji Srinivasan." [Source]

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Balaji Srinivasan recommended this book on Twitter. [Source]

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"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]

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

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"A history of the Chinese tech ecosystem." - Balaji Srinivasan [Source]

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"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]

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

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

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

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

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"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]

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"All about enforcement discretion." - Balaji Srinivasan [Source]

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

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"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]

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