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Books recommended by Balaji Srinivasan

Balaji Srinivasan

  1. Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler: The Astonishing True Story of the American Financiers Who Bankrolled the Nazis (by Antony Cyril Sutton). Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan
  2. Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software (by Nadia Eghbal). Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan , Brianne Kimmel
  3. The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects (by Andrew Chen). Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan
  4. The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything (by Paul Vigna). Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan
  5. Frisco Kid: (by Jack London). Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan
  6. UFO Hunters: (by William J. Birnes). Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan
  7. Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past (by David Reich). Recommended by Marc Andreessen , Naval Ravikant , Nassim Taleb , Balaji Srinivasan , Michael Mauboussin
  8. My Brother Ron: A Personal and Social History of the Deinstitutionalization of the Mentally Ill (by Clayton E. Cramer). Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan
  9. A Gentle Introduction to Unqualified Reservations: (by Mencius Moldbug). Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan
  10. China Coup: The Great Leap to Freedom (by Roger Garside). Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan
  11. Physics for Scientists and Engineers: Volume 1 (by Paul A. Tipler). Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan
  12. The Man Who Invented Fidel: Castro, Cuba, and Herbert L. Matthews of The New York Times (by Anthony DePalma). Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan
  13. Physics from Finance: A gentle introduction to gauge theories, fundamental interactions and fiber bundles (by Jakob Schwichtenberg). Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan
  14. Where Is My Flying Car?: A Memoir of Future Past (by J Storrs Hall). Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan
  15. Schaum's Outline of Principles of Accounting I: (by Joel J. Lerner). Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan
  16. The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution (by Yuri Slezkine). Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan
  17. The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny (by William Strauss). Recommended by Tony Robbins , Balaji Srinivasan
  18. The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare (by Christian Brose). Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan
  19. From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 (by Lee Kuan Yew). Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan
  20. Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World (by Laura Spinney). Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan
  21. Test-Driven Development with Python: Obey the Testing Goat Using Django, Selenium, and JavaScript (by Harry Percival). Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan
  22. The Princeton Companion to Mathematics: (by Timothy Gowers). Recommended by Naval Ravikant , Balaji Srinivasan
  23. Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA (by Daniel Carpenter). Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan
  24. The Future Is Asian: Commerce, Conflict, and Culture in the 21st Century (by Parag Khanna). Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan
  25. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences (by John Allen Paulos). Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan
  26. Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human (by Richard Wrangham). Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan
  27. Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution: The Remarkable True Story of the American Capitalists Who Financed the Russian Communists (by Antony Cyril Sutton). Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan
  28. One Thousand Exercises in Probability: (by Geoffrey Grimmett). Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan
  29. Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking and the Regulatory State (by Paul Tucker). Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan
  30. Virtual Economies: Design and Analysis (by Vili Lehdonvirta). Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan
  31. Visual Complex Analysis: (by Tristan Needham). Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan
  32. Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts (by Jill Abramson). Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan
  33. War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires (by Peter Turchin). Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan
  34. Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle (by Dan Senor). Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan
  35. Netflixed: The Epic Battle for America's Eyeballs (by Gina Keating). Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan
  36. The Craft: How the Freemasons Made the Modern World (by John Dickie). Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan
  37. History Has Begun: The Birth of a New America (by Bruno Macaes). Recommended by Marc Andreessen , Balaji Srinivasan
  38. Visual Complex Functions: An Introduction with Phase Portraits (by Elias Wegert). Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan
  39. Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent (by Harvey A. Silverglate). Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan
  40. End the Fed: (by Ron Paul). Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan , Rand Paul
  41. Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages (by Carlota Perez). Recommended by Marc Andreessen , Balaji Srinivasan
  42. Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History (by Catharine Arnold). Recommended by Jonathan Eisen , Balaji Srinivasan
  43. Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life (by Nir Eyal). Recommended by Alexis Ohanian , Ryan Hoover , Balaji Srinivasan
  44. Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It (by Gina Kolata). Recommended by Jonathan Eisen , Balaji Srinivasan
  45. The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History (by David Hackett Fischer). Recommended by Ryan Petersen , Balaji Srinivasan
  46. How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone (by Brian McCullough). Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan , Chris Dixon
  47. Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals (by Saul D. Alinsky). Recommended by Ryan Holiday , Balaji Srinivasan
  48. The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (by John M. Barry). Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan , Hugh Hewitt , Brad Feld
  49. The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building (by Matt Mochary). Recommended by Alexis Ohanian , Ryan Hoover , Ryan Petersen , Balaji Srinivasan
  50. The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm (by Lewis Dartnell). Recommended by Ryan Shea , Balaji Srinivasan
  51. How Innovation Works: Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time (by Matt Ridley). Recommended by Bill Gurley , Naval Ravikant , Balaji Srinivasan
  52. The Little Bitcoin Book: Why Bitcoin Matters for Your Freedom, Finances, and Future (by Bitcoin Collective). Recommended by Anthony Pompliano , Balaji Srinivasan
  53. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (by James C. Scott). Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan , Rory Sutherland
  54. The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression (by Amity Shlaes). Recommended by Charles Koch , Balaji Srinivasan
  55. AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order (by Kai-Fu Lee). Recommended by Arianna Huffington , Chris Anderson , Marc Benioff , Peter Diamandis , Ryan Shea , Satya Nadella , Tim O’Reilly , Yuval Noah Harari , Balaji Srinivasan
  56. The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History (by Ashley Rindsberg). Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan , David Sacks , Mark Manson
  57. The Nature of Mathematical Modeling: (by Neil Gershenfeld). Recommended by Patrick Collison , Balaji Srinivasan
  58. The Journalist And The Murderer: (by Janet Malcolm). Recommended by Patrick Collison , Balaji Srinivasan
  59. The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan (by Robert Kanigel). Recommended by Donald Knuth , Paul Graham , Balaji Srinivasan
  60. The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age (by James Dale Davidson). Recommended by Brian Armstrong , Naval Ravikant , Peter Thiel , Ryan Shea , Balaji Srinivasan , Patrick O’Shaughnessy , Sahil Lavingia
  61. The Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail (by Ray Dalio). Recommended by Arianna Huffington , Brian Armstrong , Lex Fridman , Mark Cuban , Balaji Srinivasan , Changpeng Zhao , David Friedberg , Jamie Dimon , Mark Manson
  62. Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy (by Kishore Mahbubani). Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan , Mohnish Pabrai
  63. Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company (by Andrew S. Grove). Recommended by Ben Horowitz , Bill Gates , Charlie Munger , Marc Andreessen , Steve Jobs , Vinod Khosla , Balaji Srinivasan , Jamie Dimon
  64. High Output Management: (by Andrew S. Grove). Recommended by Ben Horowitz , Brian Armstrong , Brian Chesky , Drew Houston , Keith Rabois , Larry Ellison , Marc Andreessen , Mark Zuckerberg , Ron Conway , Tobi Lütke , Balaji Srinivasan , Sahil Lavingia , John Doerr , Justin Kan