This is a collection of the books, podcast episodes, videos, papers, articles and tweet threads I find cool.

Startups

Andrew Chen - The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
a16z Podcast - Balaji Srinivasan on the Network State
Balaji Srinivasan - The Network State: How To Start a New Country
Ashlee Vance - Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters - Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Crypto/Web 3

E. Glen Weyl, Puja Ohlaver, Vitalik Buterin - Decentralized Society: Finding Web3’s Soul
Satoshi Nakamoto - Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
Vitalik Buterin - Ethereum: A Next-Generation Smart Contract and Decentralized Application Platform
Nick Mudge - EIP-2535: Diamonds, Multi-Facet Proxy

Economic Systems

Joel Miller, E. Glen Weyl, Leon Erichsen - Beyond Collusion Resistance: Leveraging Social Information for Plural Funding and Voting
Green Pill Podcast - Radical Markets with Glen Weyl
Stephanie Kelton - The big myth of government deficits
Kurzgesagt - A Selfish Argument for Making the World a Better Place – Egoistic Altruism
Wendover Productions - Is Africa the Next China?
Wendover Productions - The Electric Vehicle Charging Problem
Economics Explained - Is There a Better Economic System than Capitalism?
Economics Explained - India Will Not Be The Next China
Economics Explained - Limitless Growth Is Possible If We Run Our Economies Correctly
Economics Explained - Was Dropping The Gold Standard A Mistake?
Economics Explained - China’s Blackouts Are Shining Light On A New Problem
Economics Explained - The Overleveraged Economy of Iceland
Economics Explained - The Economy of EVE Online
Kurzgesagt - The Rise of the Machines – Why Automation is Different this Time
Kurzgesagt - Universal Basic Income Explained – Free Money for Everybody? UBI
Structural Adjustment: How the IMF and World Bank repress poor countries and funnel their resources to rich ones

Climate Change

Leslie Dewan - Making the Invisible Visible: Demystifying Nuclear Energy
Cleo Abram - The big misconception about clean energy
Kurzgesagt - Do we Need Nuclear Energy to Stop Climate Change?
Kurzgesagt - We WILL Fix Climate Change
Al Gore - The case for optimism on climate change
Michael Shellenberger - Why renewables can’t save the planet
Real Engineering - A New Way to Achieve Nuclear Fusion: Helion

Space

Kurzgesagt - How To Terraform Venus (Quickly)
Kurzgesagt - Why Black Holes Could Delete The Universe – The Information Paradox
Kurzgesagt - What If Earth got Kicked Out of the Solar System? Rogue Earth
Kurzgesagt - 1,000km Cable to the Stars - The Skyhook
Kurzgesagt - How to Build a Dyson Sphere - The Ultimate Megastructure
Kurzgesagt - Aliens under the Ice – Life on Rogue Planets

Logistics

Johnny Harris - The US Military is EVERYWHERE
Wendover Productions - The US Military’s Massive Global Transportation System
Wendover Productions - The Failed Logistics of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Wendover Productions - How Electricity Gets to You

Miscellaneous

Morgan Housel - The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
Wendover Productions - The Art Market is a Scam (And Rich People Run It)
James Clear - Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
Michael Nielsen - Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science
Peter Singer - The why and how of effective altruism
JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Wendover Productions - Why Electric Planes are Inevitably Coming
Kurzgesagt - The Egg - A Short Story
Kurzgesagt - What Are You Doing With Your Life? The Tail End