Weekly Mix #218 - The best inventions of 2021

Snow Crash Notes, Changing Careers, & The Best Inventions of 2021

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Happy Monday!

I don't have much to add here this week, but there are some great links...enjoy!

Graham

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Links

📚 Book Notes: Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson - I added my notes for Snow Crash, which are worth reading just for the description of the Metaverse. Still hard to believe it was written in 1992.

📖 Climbing the wrong hill - Chris Dixon - A piece about why many of us choose not to move towards the career we think is ideal (and why we should).

📖 The Best Inventions of 2021 - Time - A list of the top inventions of the year, in all kinds of different categories, from Accessibility to Artificial Intelligence.

📖 DAOs, A Canon - a16z - One of the top venture capital firms in the world, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has curated a list of reads about DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations), the latest big focus in the crypto world. They also have a curated list for NFTs and for Crypto, which I plan to work my way through as well.

📖 Paul Singer, Doomsday Investor - The New Yorker - Very interesting profile of one of the largest activist investors in the world, and particularly his battle with Jonathan Bush, cousin of George W., and founder of Athenahealth, a large health services company in the US.

​10 Tweets

​How to learn more effectively with David Perell​

​​The growth of Bitcoin is surprisingly steady​

​Series of short intro books​

​Electric vehicles are now 10% of total car sales​

​A crowdsourced list of gift ideas under $100 from Dickie Bush​

​The point of work/a career summarized by Ali Abdaal​

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