Lessons:
• Probably the best book written on human behavior
• You will learn how to be aware of your own bias
• Make better decisions by understanding your blind spots
Books every entrepreneur should read in 2022 (and why):
Lessons:
• Probably the best book written on human behavior
• You will learn how to be aware of your own bias
• Make better decisions by understanding your blind spots
Lessons:
• Why big companies miss disruptive innovations
• Big companies demand quantification of market size
• Disruptive markets in their infancy can’t be quantified
Lessons:
• Competition is for losers
• Monopolies are actually good
• Large TAM’s are overrated
Lessons:
• Business is about people
• You’re selling to people (customers) or hiring people (employees)
• This book helps you get better at both
Lessons:
• Uber faced so much resistance when it was launching
• If you're building a product in a market where there are large incumbents, take lessons from this book
Lessons:
• Stories from the army on how to lead teams
• Good leaders take ownership of what they do
• Good leaders take ownership of what happens to their team
Lessons:
• Change your life by taking small steps
• Small steps become part of your routine until a new habit is formed
Lessons:
• How to think in terms of systems and processes for your business
• A good business can function without the owner being involved in everything
• This comes down to building great processes to fulfill the work you do
Lessons:
• How to think about MVPs for your launch
• This book crystallized the notion of validating your learnings via quick experiments
• Throw out the business plan, take action and test the market quickly
Lessons:
• Compound Growth is the 8th wonder of the world
• This book dives into how compound growth can improve your life
• You overestimate what you can do in a day and underestimate what you can do in a year
Lessons:
• We all have fears, doubts, and suffer from analysis paralysis
• This book is a great reminder that fear is normal
• You will learn how to embrace your fears and take action anyway
Lessons:
• A new perspective on how to handle conflict
• How to change someone’s mind when they’re being stubborn
• How to build and nurture a passion
Lessons:
• Most people assume that the developing world is behind
• This book turns that assumption on its head
• Building for emerging markets allows you to import high-impact and low-cost innovations to developed markets
Lessons:
• Netflix has one of the most unique corporate cultures
• A must-read as build your own company and think about culture
• This book written by the CEO dives into why Netflix came up with policies on: feedback and unlimited vacations
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So the cryptocurrency industry has basically two products, one which is relatively benign and doesn't have product market fit, and one which is malignant and does. The industry has a weird superposition of understanding this fact and (strategically?) not understanding it.
The benign product is sovereign programmable money, which is historically a niche interest of folks with a relatively clustered set of beliefs about the state, the literary merit of Snow Crash, and the utility of gold to the modern economy.
This product has narrow appeal and, accordingly, is worth about as much as everything else on a 486 sitting in someone's basement is worth.
The other product is investment scams, which have approximately the best product market fit of anything produced by humans. In no age, in no country, in no city, at no level of sophistication do people consistently say "Actually I would prefer not to get money for nothing."
This product needs the exchanges like they need oxygen, because the value of it is directly tied to having payment rails to move real currency into the ecosystem and some jurisdictional and regulatory legerdemain to stay one step ahead of the banhammer.
If everyone was holding bitcoin on the old x86 in their parents basement, we would be finding a price bottom. The problem is the risk is all pooled at a few brokerages and a network of rotten exchanges with counter party risk that makes AIG circa 2008 look like a good credit.
— Greg Wester (@gwestr) November 25, 2018
The benign product is sovereign programmable money, which is historically a niche interest of folks with a relatively clustered set of beliefs about the state, the literary merit of Snow Crash, and the utility of gold to the modern economy.
This product has narrow appeal and, accordingly, is worth about as much as everything else on a 486 sitting in someone's basement is worth.
The other product is investment scams, which have approximately the best product market fit of anything produced by humans. In no age, in no country, in no city, at no level of sophistication do people consistently say "Actually I would prefer not to get money for nothing."
This product needs the exchanges like they need oxygen, because the value of it is directly tied to having payment rails to move real currency into the ecosystem and some jurisdictional and regulatory legerdemain to stay one step ahead of the banhammer.
