Tech Wisdom
I used to be uninterested in my engineering degree. That changed when I started to read up on the world outside of my university courses. I had no idea how much you could create and innovate on your own. I recommend these sources to people who desire to go beyond a traditional education, and see the bigger picture of technology and innovation.
Read:
- Zero to One - Peter Thiel
- Poor Charlie's Almanack - Charlie Munger
- Essays - Paul Graham
- Elon Musk - Walter Isaacson
- The Sovereign Individual - Rees-Mogg/Davidson
- The Beginning of Infinity - David Deutsch
- The Techno-Optimist Manifesto - Marc Andreessen
- The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Study People:
- Elon Musk
- Peter Thiel
- Balaji Srinivasan
- Jeff Bezos
- Palmer Luckey
- Marc Andreessen
- Alex Karp
- Pavel Durov
- Brett Adcock
Study Frontier Technology:
- Fintech (Polymarket, Stripe, Ramp, Coinbase)
- Thermodynamic Compute (Extropic & Normal)
- Quantum Compute (D-Wave, IBM, Google)
- Synthetic Biology and Genomics Software (LatchBio)
- Scalable Blockchain (Ethereum & Solana)
- Startup Societies (Prospera, Network School)
- Embodied AI (Figure, Tesla Optimus, Google Deepmind Gemini ER)
- Space Infrastructure (SpaceX, Rocket Lab, Blue Origin, Starlink)
- BCIs (Neuralink)
Listen:
- Founders (James Dyson, Wright Brothers, Alexander Graham Bell, Jim Simons, Elon Musk, Henry Ford, Larry Ellison, Paul Graham, George Lucas, David Ogilvy, Edwin Land, Marc Andreessen, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison)
- Lex Fridman Interviews (Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, DJ Seo)
Notes:
- Innovators are all autodidacts even if they went to school.
- All multidisciplinary, not just tech nerds, they know history, philosophy, economics, etc.
- Dialectic of reasoning “bottom-up” from first principles and reasoning “top-down” from ambitious ideas.
- Mission driven. Capital is a tool. Business is the means by which they can make their ideas reality.
- Innovators are applied philosophers. Their endeavors correspond with their ideologies. (Telegram → privacy of speech, SpaceX → multiplanetary species)
- Build things money cannot buy. (Elon can't buy a trip to Mars)