Episode · a16z Podcast · 2025-09-27
Books mentioned on The Common Thread of All Technology: Monitoring the Situation, Ep.1
Announcing our new show, Monitoring the Situation, hosted by a16z General Partners Erik Torenberg and Katherine Boyle, with guest Eddie Lazzarin, CTO of a16z crypto.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Techno-Optimist Manifesto
Discussed“Well, and I and I always say, Eric, I've been I've been begging you and telling you we have to have the Techno Optimist Manifesto on the front page of our website, right?”
Where to get it
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The Sovereign Individual
The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg is a visionary 1997 non-fiction book that forecasts how the digital age, decentralized currencies, and technological advancements would dramatically erode the power of the nation-state and empower autonomous individuals.
Discussed“And then the the other thing that I always point out that's an anecdote too is like the first time that like I've you know like the sovereign individual and sort of like the canonical books that like you know led to people really investigating is as a category all of those people that that introduced those books to me”
Where to get it
