Welcome to Web 3 with A6 and Z, our show about building the next generation of the internet.

Sonal here back again, and Robert and I decided to do an episode on what we're reading here at A6 and Z Crypto.

Since our team just released our annual summer reading list, you can find the latest and pass list linked in the show notes and on A6NZ Crypto.com, we thought it would be fun to do a hallway cell chat among the editorial team.

And so also asked editor Steph Zinn and Tim Sullivan to join us as well.

Whether you're working or vacationing, hopefully there's something in this special

summer holiday episode that sparks interest for you too. By the way, we have new show art as well.

In the conversation that follows, we not only discuss books that we and others here are reading,

including books that come up on our list every time, but also talk about

why audiobooks, modes of reading, genres, talk about pseudonymous authors to royal authors,

to Shakespeare, to religion, science fiction, and much, much more. But we begin by briefly

talking about the list itself.

The first voice you'll hear is Roberts, followed by Stephs, me, and then Tim.

By the way, every person on our team who submits a book first says, I know this isn't good for the list. And I go, no, no, no, it is great for the list. Yeah. Like, it doesn't have to be a crypto book. It doesn't have to be an entrepreneurship book. It just has to be a book that you liked. Yeah. I mean, there is not a lot of posturing. People recommend books that are of any age. It's not like, here's the latest book on this or like, here's something that's coming out this year that I'm excited about. There's like classics on there. We have John Steinbeck, but also newer, newer publications, Annie Jacobson's nuclear war. They're kind of like all over the place. And I think that's really refreshing, honestly. I do think that like it encourages more people to contribute as well. Like once I saw the first reading list, I was like, oh, I can contribute. I mean, I haven't contributed this time. But once I saw the first reading list, I was like, oh, I can contribute books. Like, I'm allowed to talk about what I like here instead of, you know, something that I think I should have read. Yeah. I figured I would just ask you all, what are you reading?

Well, what if we're not reading?

Well, that's highly possible, too.

We're too busy working to read.

I'm just kidding.

It's a trick question.

Some of you guys are new parents, so that can also eat into reading time.

I'm an old parent, so I'm reading.

I'm reading Ishiguro's when we were orphans.

That's Kazuo Ishiguro, right?

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