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A curated field manual of books, articles, podcasts, and links for learning about crypto, tech, and markets. Start here.

Crypto Foundations

The Internet of Money — Andreas Antonopoulos [book]

A collection of talks by Andreas M. Antonopoulos

Introduction To Cryptocurrency — Haseeb Qureshi [book]

Introduction to the many disciplines behind cryptocurrencies

The Bitcoin Standard — Saifedean Ammous [book]

Sound money thesis, Austrian economics, and why Bitcoin matters

Markets: Trading & Investing

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator — Edwin Lefèvre [book]

100-year-old book. Still the best book on speculation ever written.

Market Wizards — Jack Schwager [book]

Interviews with the greatest traders. Patterns in how they think.

The Intelligent Investor — Benjamin Graham [book]

The definitive book on value investing

Technical Analysis Series by Crypto Cred [video]

Beginner-friendly crypto trading video series

Macro & Economics

Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order — Ray Dalio [book]

Empire cycles, reserve currencies, debt crises. Big picture macro.

Lyn Alden — Articles [blog]

Best macro writer alive. Fiscal dominance, money supply, Bitcoin.

WTF Happened in 1971? [site]

Charts showing what broke when the US left the gold standard.

Tech & Startups

Zero to One — Peter Thiel [book]

Contrarian thinking on building technology companies.

Paul Graham — Essays [blog]

Timeless essays on startups, thinking, and building things.

a16z Blog [blog]

Andreessen Horowitz on crypto, AI, bio, and frontier tech.

Podcasts

The Chopping Block, Unchained [podcast]

Crypto + Markets

Invest Like the Best — Patrick O'Shaughnessy [podcast]

Investing + Tech

What Bitcoin Did [podcast]

Macro + Bitcoin

Odd Lots — Bloomberg [podcast]

Macro + Markets + Economics

Bell Curve [podcast]

Crypto General

When Shift Happens [podcast]

Crypto General

Newsletters

Citrini Research [substack]

Market thematic primers.

DeFi & Onchain

DefiLlama [tool]

TVL tracker, yields, protocol analytics. Your DeFi dashboard.

Dune Analytics [tool]

Query blockchain data yourself. Learn to read onchain.