Arjun Srivastava's Library

The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
Saifedean Ammous
When a pseudonymous programmer introduced “a new electronic cash system that’s fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party” to a small online mailing list in 2008, very few paid attention. Ten years later, and against all odds, this upstart auto...

Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet
Tim Hwang
From FSGO x Logic : a revealing examination of digital advertising and the internet's precarious foundation In Subprime Attention Crisis, Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financializes attention. In the process, he shows us how digital adver...

Who Owns the Future?
Jaron Lanier
The “brilliant” and “daringly original” ( The New York Times ) critique of digital networks from the “David Foster Wallace of tech” ( London Evening Standard )—asserting that to fix our economy, we must fix our information economy. Jaron Lanier is ...