Books Recommended by Amjad Masad

"The Facebook red book is the best startup culture book every written."

"Lean process books (e.g. Lean Startup) undervalues vision. Vision books (e.g. Zero to One) undervalues process. Read both."

"Lean process books (e.g. Lean Startup) undervalues vision. Vision books (e.g. Zero to One) undervalues process. Read both."

"I recommend reading the Unabomber Manifesto — he was an awful person to be sure — but it is nonetheless a great work of anthropology. He diagnosed the crisis of meaning in our time and how people fill the void with radical politics (ironic). https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/fc-industrial-society-and-its-future"

"Most discussions around “moats” in tech seem unsophisticated and kinda random. For more rigorous business strategy thinking I recommend the book "7 Powers.""

"Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk is good and I recommend it. But it’s not as great as his other biographies. It’s too linear and trying too hard to report events verbatim. I guess he’s better at writing about dead people."

"It’s kind of a scientific miracle that we can now reconstruct a (more) objective view of human history from genetics. Highly recommend this book https://www.amazon.com/Who-Are-How-Got-Here/dp/110187032X"

"With control over key choke points -- payment rails, SWIFT, etc -- the US weaponized the post-Cold War financial system against adversaries. More recently, the government started indirectly applying the same tactics against citizens, which is what @pmarca is talking about. A great book to read this is "Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy""

"Loved that book!"