Balaji Srinivasan
Balaji Srinivasan is a highly influential serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and essayist, known for his extensive contributions to the fields of biotechnology, cryptocurrency, and digital health.
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Visual Complex Functions
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
Elias Wegert
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History Has Begun
[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
Bruno Macaes
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The Knowledge
Balaji Srinivasan recommended this book on Twitter.
Lewis Dartnell
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Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler
How different groups of capitalists funded the fascist revolution. - Balaji Srinivasan
Antony Cyril Sutton
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The Man Who Knew Infinity
Balaji Srinivasan recommended this book in "The Almanack of Balaji Srinivasan."
Robert Kanigel
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Visual Complex Analysis
I’ve always liked compendium. - Balaji Srinivasan
Tristan Needham
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The Changing World Order
How today’s America resembles the Dutch and British empires of the past in terms of its monetary overextension. - Balaji Srinivasan
Ray Dalio
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The Journalist And The Murderer
Short and well worth reading. Presages much of today's train crash on social media. - Balaji Srinivasan
Janet Malcolm
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The Great Influenza
Balaji Srinivasan recommended this book on Twitter.
John M. Barry
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Flu
Balaji Srinivasan recommended this book on Twitter.
Gina Kolata
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Reputation and Power
Most people don't really hear bad things about the FDA. This book taught me why. - Balaji Srinivasan
Daniel Carpenter
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Netflixed
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
Gina Keating
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The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
The desert island book. So good. - Balaji Srinivasan
Timothy Gowers
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End the Fed
[The author] was to Bitcoin what Andrew Yang is to startup societies. - Balaji Srinivasan
Ron Paul
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How Innovation Works
How tech founders always had to fight against the establishment, just like the present day. - Balaji Srinivasan
Matt Ridley
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AI Superpowers
A history of the Chinese tech ecosystem. - Balaji Srinivasan
Kai-Fu Lee
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My Brother Ron
Balaji Srinivasan mentioned this book on Twitter.
Clayton E. Cramer
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Start-up Nation
I love [this] book! - Balaji Srinivasan
Dan Senor
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Three Felonies A Day
All about enforcement discretion. - Balaji Srinivasan
Harvey A. Silverglate
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Physics for Scientists and Engineers
Balaji Srinivasan recommended this book in "The Almanack of Balaji Srinivasan."
Paul A. Tipler
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The Forgotten Man
Useful as an alternate perspective on the era. - Balaji Srinivasan
Amity Shlaes
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Only the Paranoid Survive
We've all read Grove. - Balaji Srinivasan
Andrew S. Grove
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Physics from Finance
A lot of fun. Not exactly art, but novel approach with a lot of visual inspiration. - Balaji Srinivasan
Jakob Schwichtenberg
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One Thousand Exercises in Probability
Requires more energy to read, but it keeps you sharp. - Balaji Srinivasan
Geoffrey Grimmett
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Pale Rider
Balaji Srinivasan recommended this book on Twitter.
Laura Spinney
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China Coup
Makes the case that Xi could be felled by his internal enemies (possible!) and that this will lead to democratization (IMO implausible). - Balaji Srinivasan
Roger Garside
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The Future Is Asian
The American century is ending. The Asian century is beginning. - Balaji Srinivasan
Parag Khanna
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The Man Who Invented Fidel
Balaji Srinivasan mentioned this book on Twitter.
Anthony DePalma
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Where Is My Flying Car?
Don't judge this self-published book by its cover, just read it. - Balaji Srinivasan
J Storrs Hall
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Who We Are and How We Got Here
The brief argument is: our true history is written in our genes. - Balaji Srinivasan
David Reich
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A Gentle Introduction to Unqualified Reservations
A broad survey of Western historical anomalies, with a focus on the 19th and 20th centuries. - Balaji Srinivasan
Mencius Moldbug
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Rules for Radicals
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
Saul D. Alinsky
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Test-Driven Development with Python
Teaches you how to test things that are bigger than just a simple function. - Balaji Srinivasan
Harry Percival
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High Output Management
Balaji Srinivasan recommended this book in "The Almanack of Balaji Srinivasan."
Andrew S. Grove
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The Great Wave
Gold from the Americas did flood Europe in the 1500s, which helped cause inflation. - Balaji Srinivasan
David Hackett Fischer
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Has China Won?
One may have to set aside ego to read it. - Balaji Srinivasan
Kishore Mahbubani
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The Cold Start Problem
Useful for anyone trying to bootstrap a new community or network, which is virtually every founder these days. - Balaji Srinivasan
Andrew Chen
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The Fourth Turning
How a cyclic theory of history forecasts a serious American conflict in the 2020s (written in the mid-1990s). - Balaji Srinivasan
William Strauss
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The Kill Chain
The US military has a perfect record in its war games with China. China has won every round. - Balaji Srinivasan
Christian Brose
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The Great CEO Within
[Brian Armstrong] and I used parts of this at Coinbase. - Balaji Srinivasan
Matt Mochary
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Pandemic 1918
Balaji Srinivasan recommended this book on Twitter.
Catharine Arnold
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Unelected Power
Decent book — by a central banker! — on the lack of legitimacy of central banking and the regulatory state writ large. - Balaji Srinivasan
Paul Tucker
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Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital
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
Carlota Perez
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The Sovereign Individual
If you want to find startup ideas here’s the book. - Balaji Srinivasan
James Dale Davidson
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Virtual Economies
A good read for crypto people. - Balaji Srinivasan
Vili Lehdonvirta
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The Truth Machine
An accessible explanation of how blockchains allow us to establish certain kinds of truths even in adversarial environments. - Balaji Srinivasan
Paul Vigna
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Innumeracy
Balaji Srinivasan recommended this book in "The Almanack of Balaji Srinivasan."
John Allen Paulos
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How the Internet Happened
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
Brian McCullough
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War and Peace and War
How quantitative methods can identify recurrent cycles. - Balaji Srinivasan
Peter Turchin
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Working in Public
[The author] is very smart and it’s worth reading anything she writes on open source. - Balaji Srinivasan
Nadia Eghbal
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The House of Government
How the Soviet Union actually worked. - Balaji Srinivasan
Yuri Slezkine
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The Nature of Mathematical Modeling
In terms of just packing a punch per page I really enjoyed this back in the day. - Balaji Srinivasan
Neil Gershenfeld
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Merchants of Truth
Balaji Srinivasan mentioned this book on Twitter.
Jill Abramson
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UFO Hunters
Balaji Srinivasan mentioned this book on Twitter.
William J. Birnes
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Catching Fire
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
Richard Wrangham
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The Craft
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
John Dickie
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Indistractable
Tackles the problem of modern distraction by empowering us to break the bad habits at the root of the issue. - Balaji Srinivasan
Nir Eyal
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Schaum's Outline of Principles of Accounting I
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
Joel J. Lerner
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Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution
How different groups of capitalists funded the communist revolution. - Balaji Srinivasan
Antony Cyril Sutton
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Frisco Kid
Balaji Srinivasan mentioned this book on Twitter.
Jack London
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Seeing Like a State
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
James C. Scott
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The Little Bitcoin Book
Was written in a few days by N people, one chapter each, and then published on Amazon. - Balaji Srinivasan
Bitcoin Collective
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The Gray Lady Winked
I put it up there with the top five books I recommend. - Balaji Srinivasan
Ashley Rindsberg
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From Third World to First
Balaji Srinivasan recommended this book on Twitter.
Lee Kuan Yew
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