Recommended resources on technology, venture capital, market trends, and general interests
RECOMMENDED RESOURCES Some personal favourites
BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS
EARLY COMPANY BUILDING
The Cold Start Problem
Andrew Chen
Angel - How to invest in technology startups
Jason Calacanis
Blitzscaling
Reid Hoffman
Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist
Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson
STARTUP BOARDS
Brad Feld
PRODUCT BUILDING
STARTUP STORIES
The Everything Store
Brad Stone
Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson
How Google Works
Eric Schmidt
Bad Blood
John Carreyrou
VC - An American History
Thomas Nicholas
The Power Law
Sebastian Mallaby
MATHS & COMPUTING
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE
A Piece of the Sun: The Quest for Fusion Energy
Daniel Clery
The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
Raymond Kurzweil
The Case for Mars
Robert Zubrin
Quantum Supremacy
Michio Kaku
COMMODITIES, ENERGY & MATERIALS
The Prize
Daniel Yergin
How the World Really Works
Vaclav Smil
The King of Oil
Daniel Ammann
Material World
Ed Conway
RISK MANAGEMENT
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
Peter L. Bernstein
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Nassim Taleb
SCIENCE FICTION
The Martian
Andy Weir
The Three Body Problem
Cixin Liu
I, Robot
Isaac Asimov
The Dark Forest
Cixin Liu
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
Delta V
Daniel Suarez
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
Douglas Adams
NEWSLETTERS I (TRY) TO READ RELATIVELY FREQUENTLY
- Technically – Justin Gage
- Investing 101 – Kyle Harrison
- Digital Native – Rex Woodbury
- Future Literacy – Bryan Johnson
- The Research Rundown – Contrary Research
- SemiAnalysis – Dylan Patel
- Net Interest – Marc Rubinstein
- Clouded Judgement – Jamin Ball
ARTICLE RECOMMENDATIONS
Strategy, Business Models, and General Thinking
- Strategy Letter V – by Joel Spolsky
- First Principles: The Building Blocks of True Knowledge
- The Internet is Chaos. It’s A Reflection of Humanity.
- The Rising Importance of the Great Art of Storytelling – by Bill Gurley
- Find The Fast Moving Water – by NFX
- The New Moats Why Systems of Intelligence™ are the Next Defensible Business Model
- Choose Good Quests ready player one. What did you get done this week?
Technology and Product Management
- If data is a product, what is production?
- Product strategy means saying no
- All Revenue is Not Created Equal: The Keys to the 10X Revenue Club
- To Organize The World’s Information
- Data Mesh — A Data Movement and Processing Platform @ Netflix
- How do I get more Technical – by Justin Gage
- How to Excel in Tech Without Learning to Code – by Justin Gage
- Rethinking Network Value to Transactions (NVT) Ratio