Good Morning Everyone,
I feel like I’ve unloaded a ton of information on you guys this week, and particularly the last two letters where fairly deep (and long) so I thought I’d keep it short today, and offer you a few links to content that i believe are super valuable.
I did want to frame it appropriately before doing so, and offer my perspective on content, but more specifically books, as there is a profound asymmetry that exists that i think few tend to see.
I wrote about this in more detail a while ago linked here 2140.blog for anyone that is interested, but i’ll offer a brief explanation.
First consider what is distilled into a book. In many cases it can be a life’s work or an accumulation of information over decades. It’s also a filtration process, whereby the author is filtering signal from noise for you, so you don’t have to. Then the book is the transmission mechanism for the information from the author to the reader.
The asymmetry is essentially this: Think about what the downside is to reading a book. This could apply to a podcast, or any other content, the only difference is those are often more disposable, and may not have the same signal:noise ratio you’re more likely to get due to the commitment required to write a book.
The downside is very low. Worst case scenario is basically that the book sucks, maybe you wasted $20 and few hours of your time. Where as the upside is that the book could completely change your life, the impacts of which are profound and far reaching and potentially changing the lives of those around you and your community which is to change the world.
With that said allow me to offer some suggestions for the weekend.
Hope you have a great weekend. I’ll chat to you all next week.
AK
Books:
The Bitcoin Standard - Saifidean Ammous
The Price Of Tomorrow - Jeff Booth
The Sovereign Individual - James Dale Davidson
Pods:
Russia Ukraine War / Global Macro w/ Luke Gromen & Preston Pysh
Articles:
Shelling Out - Nick Szabo / Audio here thanks to Guy Swam - Bitcoin Audible
