There are a lot of links to very valuable content below. But do you know what's more important for learning than reading? Doing!

Even if you read, watch and listen to everything listed here, you'll only have a very superficial and theoretical understanding of the space. The only way to truly understand the power and shortcomings of crypto is to use it. That’s what it’s for, after all. Reading about driving a car won’t give you much of an idea about what driving a car is actually like. The same goes for crypto. Just like driving, “doing” crypto is a little intimidating at first, but not that hard to get the hang of.

Doing

Here is to get you started (coming soon...)

External Content

General Understanding

• Adreessen Horrowit's long list: https://a16z.com/2018/02/10/crypto-readings-resources/

• HBR Ideacast 581: https://hbr.org/podcast/2017/06/blockchain-what-you-need-to-know

Innovation Literature

• https://hbr.org/2015/12/what-is-disruptive-innovation

• JTBD https://hbr.org/podcast/2016/12/the-jobs-to-be-done-theory-of-innovation

• https://www.gartner.com/en/research/methodologies/gartner-hype-cycle

• https://www.icopilots.com/building-a-proper-innovation-portfolio-1/

Recent Reports & Theses

2023

• https://messari.io/crypto-theses-for-2023

• https://www.developerreport.com/developer-report

2022

• https://a16zcrypto.com/state-of-crypto-report-a16z-2022/

• https://messari.io/pdf/messari-report-crypto-theses-for-2022.pdf - discussed here as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3PExi_z4mc

• https://www.notboring.co/p/web3-use-cases-the-future

• https://www.notboring.co/p/web3-use-cases-today

Pieces of Crypto Thinkings - from VCs, Founders, and Thinkers

• Crypto Natives - can be a little obscure. Maybe don't start with this :)

  • Vitalik Buterin Blog: https://vitalik.ca/ – it’s all good, maybe just skip the lifestyle sections :)

  • DataAlways / Tripoli

    • on Mirror.xyz: https://dataalways.mirror.xyz/

    • on Substack: https://dataalways.substack.com/

  • Jon Charbonneau: https://joncharbonneau.substack.com/

  • Cobie: https://cobie.substack.com/

• VCs-turned-Media - Generally quite understandable

  • Packy McCormack on “Not Boring”

    • https://www.notboring.co/p/the-laboratory-for-complex-problems?s=w

    • https://www.notboring.co/p/celo-building-a-regenerative-economy

    • https://www.notboring.co/p/zero-knowledge

  • A16Z (and friends)

    • https://future.com/metaverse-infrastructure-technology-games/

    • Chris Dixon (A16Z) and Naval Ravikant on Web3 with Tim Ferris https://youtu.be/DlNDYMNJ5zQ

    • Chris Dixon (A16Z) on Mental Models for Web3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jezH_7qEk50

    • Marc Andreessen & Chris Dixon of A16Z compare Crypto to early internet in “reinventing the internet” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXHITeaGB8Q

  • Electric Capital’s yearly Developer Ecosystem Report

    • 2021: https://medium.com/electric-capital/electric-capital-developer-report-2021-f37874efea6d

    • 2022: https://www.developerreport.com/developer-report

• Crypto-Media

  • Bankless - videos on Youtube are also available in their newsletter if you prefer reading

    • Crypto Renaissance from an Historian’s perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=karddOiv4ZA

    • Crypto Revolution from an Historian’s perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0psJ5JjjNrw

    • Why Bankless is Wrong - Cosmos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbomgw-PGRE

    • Beyond Coin Voting Governance (V Buterin): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apU83PaErrE&t=2s

    • Internet Reset with Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zimx60Rx8cM

    • Ark-Invest on investing in the future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsGubNtWeSo

• Other Things

  • On collaboration in DAOs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=903tHM4RA9k

  • The identity problem in Tech: https://thedefiant.io/identity-is-the-one-vulnerability-being-exploited-across-all-systems-its-the-mother-of-all-battles-santiago-siri/

  • https://hbr.org/2022/05/why-build-in-web3

• Contrarians

  • Cory Doctorow on Blockchain, Crypto Web3: https://anchor.fm/life-itself/episodes/Cory-Doctorow-on-Blockchain--Crypto--Web3-e1hmcfk/a-a7gpq18

  • Molly White: https://web3isgoinggreat.com/