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Godel, Escher, Bach
Douglas Hofstadter (inferred)
“mind-blowing book”
“i read this book gerda escherbach which was sort of mind-blowing book at the time and it's all about kind of the connection between computer science and music and philosophy”— Chris Dixon
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1,000 True Fans (essay)
Kevin Kelly
“i recommend it consistently all the time”
“many of the listeners of the podcast will recognize the title of an essay or blog post called 1000 true fans by kevin kelly... i recommend it consistently all the time”— Tim Ferriss
MediaRecommended
Ringers (generative art series)
Dmitri Cherniak
“i'd encourage people to check out dimitri incredible digital artist”
“dimitri cherniak i'd encourage people to check out dimitri incredible digital artist incredible coder... famous for a project and a series of pieces known as ringers”— Tim Ferriss
MediaRecommended
The Eternal Pump (NFT artwork)
Dmitri Cherniak (inferred)
“if you check out the eternal pump as an example”
“if you check out the eternal pump as an example and i believe i'm getting this right”— Tim Ferriss
MediaRecommended
Loot (NFT game project)
Dom Hofmann
“let me give you an example of a really cool project... dom hoffman who's a genius developer and product designer”
“there's a thing called loop i haven't heard of loot is this game loot by... the creator of vine yeah yeah dom hoffman who's a genius developer”— Chris Dixon
BookRecommendedISBN verified
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
“go read snow crash... it's an enjoyable read neil stephenson incredible book but go check that out”
“go read snow crash and appreciate how prescient that book was uh and it's an enjoyable read neil stephenson incredible book but go check that out”— Tim Ferriss
MediaRecommended
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline (inferred)
“watch or re-watch ready player one”
“perhaps at the same time or even beforehand watch or re-watch ready player one and certainly there are aspects of it that i don't think are right around the corner”— Tim Ferriss
MediaRecommended
Fidenzas (generative art series)
Tyler Hobbs
“i recommend people check out some of the writing by tyler hobbs who is the incredible artist”
“i recommend people check out some of the writing by tyler hobbs who is the incredible artist really nice guy creator of something called the fidenzas which are incredible”— Tim Ferriss
ProductRecommended
Art Blocks
Art Blocks (inferred)
“art blocks is worth checking out people should check out art blocks”
“art blocks is worth checking out people should check out art blocks and i think it's... going to expand the pie”— Chris Dixon
BookRecommendedISBN verified
Empires of Light
Jill Jonnes (inferred)
“this amazing book called empires of light”
“this amazing book called empires of light it's the battle between westinghouse and edison really it's fascinating”— Chris Dixon
BookRecommended
The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea
John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge (inferred)
“there's a book i really like called the company a short history of the llc this is a fascinating book”
“there's a book i really like called the company a short history of the llc this is a fascinating book”— Chris Dixon
The guest's own work
BookBy the guest
Climbing the Wrong Hill (blog post)
Chris Dixon
“this post i wrote i think you're talking to this is a popular post it's called climbing the wrong hill and i was making the analogy from these algorithms to a career”— Chris Dixon
Also referenced (named, not recommended)
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Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (Satoshi Nakamoto white paper)
Satoshi Nakamoto
“for those who don't have firsthand exposure to satoshi nakamoto's white paper how long is that it's like seven pages i think i have it on my wall”— Tim Ferriss
MediaReferenced
Bored Ape Yacht Club (NFT collection)
Yuga Labs (inferred)
“if we look at an example like board api club people can take a look you're seeing because of the composability right this lego block aspect”— Tim Ferriss
MediaReferenced
Mutant Ape Yacht Club (NFT drop)
Yuga Labs (inferred)
“right board apes i think that the recent drop they did with the mutant apes so they did this thing where you got like a potion and you could get kind of your mutant counterpart”— Chris Dixon
ProductReferenced
Uniswap
Uniswap (inferred)
“most famous companies unit swap which is of course an end recent investment so congratulations chris but once it's done then anybody else can copy it”— Chris Dixon
ProductReferenced
CryptoPunks
Larva Labs (inferred)
“he got offered something like 10 million dollars for his crypto punk and it was just kind of a random generic little eight bit pixel crypto punk but he refused to sell”— Naval Ravikant
MediaReferenced
CryptoKitties
Dapper Labs (inferred)
“going all the way back to his dapper labs investment these are the people who built crypto kitties and evolving from there”— Naval Ravikant
ProductReferenced
Substack
Substack (inferred)
“it's a platform like a sort of a newsletter platform you can go to as a writer and have people subscribe to it it's relatively simple really elegant idea”— Chris Dixon
MediaReferenced
Blau NFT drop
3LAU (inferred)
“this musician blau who i think he's like a medium-sized artist on spotify he did an nft drop he made 11 million dollars”— Chris Dixon
ProductReferenced
Foundation (NFT art platform)
Foundation (inferred)
“i buy nfts on foundation which is one of our investments which is sort of a high-end art nft platform curated platform”— Chris Dixon
MediaReferenced
Axie Infinity
Sky Mavis (inferred)
“what games like axe infinity we're investors and it's one of these kind of new crypto games is instead of it being you buy the goods from the company it's much more peer-to-peer”— Chris Dixon
ProductReferenced
Yield Guild Games (YGG)
Yield Guild Games (inferred)
“ygg... it's yield guild games it's very cool it's almost like a it's a what's called dao... where people can essentially get loan taxes so they can go play it”— Chris Dixon
ProductReferenced
Sorare
Sorare (inferred)
“i want to also come back to so rare for a second and i'm an investor in a few funds that have staked in so rare”— Tim Ferriss
MediaReferenced
Zima Red (podcast)
Andrew Steinwold (inferred)
“i listen to a podcast a guy named andrew steinwald on zima red interviewing i'm blanking in his last name but his first name is aj”— Tim Ferriss
ProductReferenced
Manifold
Manifold (inferred)
“we have one company manifold which is trying to create sort of let smart contracts nfts be like an app store and you have different software you can plug and play”— Chris Dixon
MediaReferenced
Friends With Benefits (FWB) DAO
Friends With Benefits (inferred)
“friends of benefits it's a dao... fwb is a bunch of web3 product developers so it's a couple thousand people who are really high-end high-quality product developers”— Chris Dixon
MediaReferenced
Flamingo DAO
Flamingo DAO (inferred)
“they're acquisition daos one of the better known beings say flamingo very successful incredible collection of nft artwork and assets”— Tim Ferriss
MediaReferenced
NBA Top Shot (Dapper Labs)
Dapper Labs (inferred)
“so rare is kind of interesting but i think even more interesting”— Chris Dixon
ProductReferenced
Compound
Compound (inferred)
“hayden adams who's the founder of unit swap robert lesnar the founder of compound the openc founders all of these other founders in our portfolio i believe they're heroes”— Chris Dixon
ProductReferenced
OpenSea
OpenSea (inferred)
“robert lesnar the founder of compound the openc founders all of these other founders in our portfolio i believe they're heroes”— Chris Dixon
MediaReferenced
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Eric Jorgenson
“jack butcher does visualizations that this is all free or eric jorgensen does the almanac i don't have to do any of it”— Naval Ravikant
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