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5 Obscure Books you Must Read Immediately
3 min readFeb 23, 2018
- World After Capital — Albert Wenger — An esoteric read analysing the world of finance, funding and startups, viewed through the lense of how the world is changing before our eyes. Wenger argues that the world is evolving from a world where the scarcest resource is capital to one where it is attention. The book takes a deep dive through history, stopping and giving an overview of the evolution and limits of capitalism, before projecting a democratised, decentralised future where companies will require a network-as-a-service as an addition to capital investment.
- Blockchain Revolution — Don & Alex Tapscott — Want to understand Cryptocurrency? Let this be your bible. Blockchain is the foundation of a decentralised world. Web 1.0 is long gone, Web 2.0 is coming to a close while Web 3.0 promises a more distributed equitable future. This book provides the keys to understand how this world will emerge. It enables you to understand the mechanisms that are required to participate in this new world. It covers the technology, the thesis and the possible future that it will all create. To understand why the world is so excited about crypto and blockchain, read this book. Then you’l get it.
- Johnathan Livingston Seagull — Richard Bach — A wonderful story about the lonely journey to mastery, covering the peak and troughs that you will uncover along the way…
