Summer 22 Knowledge List
Mathieu Hardy
Halfway through this summer of 2022, we wanted to share some content from around the internet you might enjoy if you want to dig even deeper.
There are a lot of links to very valuable content below. But do you know what's more important for learning than reading? Doing!
BUT 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.
Get a wallet (here is a guide from the Ethereum Foundation), load it with some ETH (which you can buy from OSOM ) and go explore. If you don't know what to try first, swap tokens on Uniswap.
General Crypto understanding
Crypto Resources from A16Z
HBR Ideacast 581
Innovation Litterature
Gartner Hype Cycle
Recent Reports & Theses
Messari 2022 , also discussed here on Youtube
People Thinking About Crypto
Good Pieces
Vitalik Buterin's Blog : it's all good, just skip the lifestyle sections :)
Packy McCormack on "Not Boring" : Laboratory; Regen Economy, Zero Knowledge
A16Z: Metaverse and games
Electric Capital's yearly Developer Ecosystem Report, the latest is here
Bankless - videos on Youtube are also available in the 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
Marc Andreessen & Chris Dixon of A16Z compare Crypto to early internet in "reinventing the internet" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXHITeaGB8Q
Internet Reset with Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zimx60Rx8cM
Chris Dixon (A16Z) on Mental Models for Web3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jezH_7qEk50
Ark-Invest on investing in the future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsGubNtWeSo
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
On collaboration in DAOs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=903tHM4RA9k
Others
Chris Dixon (A16Z) and Naval Ravikant on Web3 with Tim Ferris https://youtu.be/DlNDYMNJ5zQ
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/
Contrarian: Cory Doctorow on Blockchain, Crypto Web3: https://anchor.fm/life-itself/episodes/Cory-Doctorow-on-Blockchain--Crypto--Web3-e1hmcfk/a-a7gpq18
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