OVERLAP · 6 SHARED BOOKs
Books both Balaji Srinivasan and Brian Armstrong recommend
Balaji Srinivasan and Brian Armstrong both positively recommend these books.
Shared positive books
6 BOOKs-
[001]
High Output Management
Business
Balaji Srinivasanbalajianthology.com · Balajis Recommended Reading
Listed alongside Grove's Only the Paranoid Survive on Balaji's For Founders list.
Brian Armstrongmedium.com · Some Books I Read This Year 5df6878e65cb
Recommended in the cited Medium post.
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[002]
Read Write Own
Technology
Balaji Srinivasan“What's the single best intro to crypto in 2024? 'Read Write Own' by Chris Dixon.”
From a tweet by Balaji Srinivasan recommending the book.
Brian Armstrong“Enjoyed reading Chris Dixon's new book 'Read Write Own'”
The page cites a tweet by Brian Armstrong recommending Read Write Own.
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[003]
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
History
Balaji Srinivasan“Dalio's video is good. Worth watching. But he doesn't model the effects of tech. Yes, China is rising & US state capacity is in decline. Yet US corporations still wield phenomenal digital power, and BTC/web3 are rising, as is India. So it's more complex.”
Tweet from March 13, 2022 recommending Dalio's framework while flagging its blindspot on digital power.
Brian Armstrong“Really enjoyed reading Ray Dalio's recent book, The Changing World Order”
The page cites a tweet by Brian Armstrong recommending Dalio's book.
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[004]
The Sovereign Individual
James Dale Davidson, William Rees-Mogg
Politics
Balaji Srinivasanbalajianthology.com · Balajis Recommended Reading
“The most prescient thing in the world. You can take one page and turn it into a Ph.D thesis.”
Balaji recommends it as the foundational text for understanding how cryptography will replace territorial sovereignty — the direct intellectual predecessor to his Network State concept.
Brian Armstrong“Was really ahead of it's time, a lot of original thinking”
The page cites a tweet by Brian Armstrong about The Sovereign Individual.
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[005]
How Innovation Works
History
Balaji Srinivasanbalajianthology.com · Balajis Recommended Reading
Listed in Balaji's For Founders section of recommended reading; he points founders to Ridley for the bottom-up, recombinant view of innovation.
Brian Armstrong“Really enjoyed reading this new book from Matt Ridley”
The page cites a tweet by Brian Armstrong recommending How Innovation Works.
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[006]
The Great CEO Within
Business
Balaji Srinivasanbalajianthology.com · Balajis Recommended Reading
“We found it helpful at Coinbase and Naval Ravikant used this at companies.”
Quoted in The Anthology of Balaji's recommended reading archive.
Brian Armstrong“Matt has demystified growing a company by breaking it down into simple steps. These are the essentials that every company should implement to operate more effectively.”
Armstrong's blurb ('Matt has demystified growing a company') appears among the book's endorsements on Amazon.
