Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth)

From @tylercowen and @ATabarrok's new book on economics (which includes a chapter on crypto-economics), with perhaps the sexiest introduction to cryptography I've ever read. Available courtesy of @a16z at: https://a16zcrypto.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cryptoeconomics-chapter-in-modern-principles-of-economics_tylercowen-alextabarrok.pdf

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Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth)

Today on the Pull Request podcast at 1pm Pacific. We have one of the most influential figures in tech--you've all bought his books and learned Python or Kafka or whatever thereby--Tim O'Reilly (@timoreilly)! He's talking about his new book: 'WTF?' https://t.co/9EdCALTvNp

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Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth)

Current Ukraine reading list: "The Gates of Europe," by Serhii Plokhy "White Guard," by Bulgakov What else?

Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth)

A PULL REQUEST EXCLUSIVE! For the first time, @emilmichael talks about the book and Showtime series 'Super Pumped,' what it was *really* like building Uber, getting dressed down by Apple, outwitting regulators, and that infamous journalist dinner. https://www.callin.com/room/emil-michael-is-not-super-pumped-about-super-jYmDSQzbES

Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth)

Batya's book 'Bad News: How Woke Media is Undermining Democracy' is a look at how media went from a working-class occupation concerned with the economic underdog, to a woke crusade led by elites, for elites. https://t.co/G8UnYFjVHn

Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth)

@HeliasHebreus No Logo might have been Naomi Klein’s best book.

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Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth)

We'll have a Pull Request interview with @DouthatNYT coming out shortly. Meanwhile, consider pre-ordering 'Deep Places,' a beautiful memoir of illness and finding a way out of the land of the ill (which I read in two sittings). https://t.co/jKLOhNMuXi

Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth)

Reminder! I’ll be hosting a new episode of The Pull Request with just about every PayPal OG: Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, David Sacks, and Luke Nosek, with author Jimmy Soni about his new book “The Founders”. Today at 2:30 PM ET / 11:30 AM PT. Join us! https://t.co/ZYZAA7tXaj

Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth)

What was miraculous about the border region, 'a paradise built in hell' to use Rebecca Solnit's phrase, was how volunteers came together spontaneously to meet a real human need. Here, the Sikhs gave Ukrainian refugees their first meal in peace and freedom: tandoori! https://t.co/MCTo4QIcLO

Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth)

"Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true." -Salman Rushdie, 'The Satanic Verses'