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Read Write Own: A New Era
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with @cdixon @rhhackett
Welcome to the web3 with a16z crypto podcast. I'm Robert Hackett, an editor here at a16z crypto, and I'm here with Chris Dixon, founding partner of a16z crypto and author of the new book Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet. I had the privilege of editing Chris throughout the book writing process, and I'm thrilled now to talk to you about what went on behind the scenes, the big themes of the book, the challenges, and also about the crypto industry at large as well as what we can expect from it in the future.
Learn more at https://readwriteown.com/.
Resources for references in this episode:
Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse
"'It's a canon event' TikTok trend, explained"
Chris Dixon's blog at cdixon.org"Come for the tool, stay for the network"
"The next big thing starts out looking like a toy"
"Can't be evil"
The Cold Start Problem by Andrew ChenOn Andrew Chen's writing habits
On investing in Coinbase in 2013
Guidance from the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission in 2019: "Framework for 'Investment Contract' Analysis of Digital Assets"
On blockchains as "a programmable computer that lives in the sky" via a16z crypto head of research Tim Roughgarden
Gödel Escher Bach by Douglas Hofstader
"How Aristotle Created the Computer" by Chris Dixon for The Atlantic
"A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits" by Claude Shannon
Principia Mathematica by Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead
An Investigation of the Laws of Thought by George Boole
The End of Education by Neil Postman
"Inside out vs. outside in: The adoption of new technologies" by Chris Dixon
"The Inevitable Showdown Between Twitter and Twitter Apps" by Chris Dixon
"Elon Musk says X is discouraging links in posts" by Sara Fischer
"Make Ethereum Cypherpunk Again" by Vitalik Buterin
"What Will Happen in 2024" by Fred Wilson
"A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity" by McCullough and Pitts
Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore
On "thesis, antithesis, and synthesis" and Hegel's Dialectics
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