Hello and welcome to the A16Z Crypto podcast. I'm Robert Hackett, and today we're going to be talking about books.

We put out a seasonal book list where we recommend our favorite reads,

and today we've joined the editors on our team. That's Sonal Chakshi, Tim Sullivan, Steph Zinn,

and myself to talk about the books we love and think you should read too. Let's get into it.

So this year we have a lot of recommendations.

I think we hit like more than 30 this time and they kind of cover everything from fiction,

nonfiction, memoirs. We have a little bit fewer sci-fi this time, but there is a little bit of

sci-fi, a little bit of fantasy. We've got people under pressure.

We got Endure by Alex Hutchinson. There's also racing F1 cars, octopus consciousness, Taylor Swift's

business acumen. So I think there's really something here for everybody.

That's funny, though, because as someone who has seen every book reading list,

the reading list tradition, my team started it here like maybe eight years ago.

But what I love is that we don't only talk about tech books per se and business books per se.

Octopus consciousness is definitely one that comes up at least once a year.

And same with the Formula One thing,

which I think is super cool that people are obsessed with either Formula One racing. It is fascinating

to me that that is a genre that people always recommend every year. I actually think we had that

book on our Founder Summit list. That's right. I added it. It was from Sagar on our team who recommended it. And his

recommendation was really specific. It was that it's actually a book about optimizing for racing and

like how do you engineer a car, but what are all the optimizations you do to make it fast and work

really well? But it's also kind of an analogy for how you optimize code and software. So I kind of

love how people

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