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, both of his books. There's also

Racine 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 connect the dots between various books to their work.

F1 is so popular right now.

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