Network school reading list#

Broad Ideas#

Early American history and the settling of the Wild West
The fall and rise of modern China, India, Russia, and Eastern Europe
The creation of modern Singapore and Dubai
Biographies of political figures from Deng Xiaoping to Robert Moses
The decline of Argentina and South Africa
The case-control studies of East/West Germany, North/South Korea, and Taiwan/PRC
Edge cases like San Marino, Northern Cyprus, Transnistria
The technology-fueled ascendance of El Salvador and Bhutan
National turnarounds like the Meiji Restoration and Boluan Fanzheng
The unification of France, Italy, Germany, India, America, and China
Ancient history from Gobekli Tepe to the collapse of Rome
The history of tech companies on the English and Chinese Internet

Reading#

Macrohistory#

New Countries#

Imagined Communities
Invisible Countries
The Origins of Political Order
How to Hide an Empire
The House of Government

Political Case Studies#

A New Idea of India
China’s Political Model
Seeing Like a State
Tomorrow the World
From Third World to First
When Money Dies
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union

Regulation#

Where is My Flying Car?
Three Felonies a Day
Reputation and Power
The Power Broker

Rebuilding#

The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World From Scratch
How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Principles for a Changing World Order

Self-Improvement#

Atomic Habits
Tools For Titans
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

Tech#

Zero To One
Hard Thing about Hard Things
High Growth Handbook
AI Superpowers

Crypto#

The Bitcoin Standard
Broken Money
The Sovereign Individual
The Truth Machine
Daemon

Startup Societies#

Communistic Societies of the United States
The Significance of the Frontier in American History
The Network State