Freedom

Books

If you are to read a single book on the matter, go for this one:

• Davidson & Rees-Mogg: The Sovereign Individual (1997)

  It’s a book of predictions — read Peter Thiel’s foreword to the 2020 Edition of the book to learn how incredibly accurate it turned out to be. If you find a good summary, please share.

Here are a few more of the many great foundational works that led to the creation of Bitcoin and Ethereum, which were particularly inspirational for Matter Labs and zkSync:

• Henry Hazlitt: Economics In One Lesson (1945)
• Murray Rothbart: What Has Government Done To Our Money (1963)
• Robert LeFevre: The Philosophy Of Ownership (1966)
• Harry Brown: How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World (1973)
• Neal Stephenson: Cryptonomicon (1999) — an entertaining novel about cryptography that foreshadowed Bitcoin.

Talks

• Jonathan Haidt: Three Stories About Capitalism
• Paul Romer: Charter Cities
• Iqbar Quadir: How mobile phones can fight poverty?
• Erik Voorhees: Why are we here?

Energy, Focus, Growth

Books

• The Power of Full Engagement TL;DR: Time management doesn't help productivity, you need to focus on understanding and managing your energy instead.
• The Power of Habit
• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursit of Less