Episode · Sources with Alex Heath · 2026-10-28
Alex Heath & Tobi Lütke: books mentioned on Sources with Alex Heath
Tobi Lütke on the AI agent revolution and future of Shopify
Why did Amazon block Meta's Muse but Shopify welcomed it? I sit down with Shopify co-founder and CEO Tobi Lütke in Toronto to discuss why the companies are taking different approaches to agents and how shopping changes when AI starts buying things on your behalf.
Tobi Lütke discussed Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, and Spider-Man by Mark Waid and others. Alex Heath discussed Watchmen by Alan Moore and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Cryptonomicon
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson is an epic novel blending historical fiction and cyber-thriller elements to trace two interconnected storylines involving codebreaking in World War II and the modern development of cryptography and digital currency.
Discussed“I recently reread Cryptonomicon from Neil Stevenson and which I loved reading when I was like early 20s and my god like my son just read it and we were talking about so I picked it up again”
Where to get it
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The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a dystopian young adult novel set in a ruined nation where children are forced to compete in a televised death match.
Discussed“there was probably a 50 maybe 20 year period where I don't think people wrote a lot of sci-fi that was like like it was very much when it was sci-fi it was Hunger Games it was very dystopian”
Where to get it
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Spider-Man
Discussed“you can even look at the Spider-Man comics it's like during the nuclear age it was an atomic spider right like it's like just like it's like it's always like these are things are representations by the time they come from”
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Watchmen
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons is a landmark graphic novel set in an alternate history that deconstructs the superhero genre against the backdrop of Cold War tensions.
Discussed“Was this around the era of a watchman and stuff too or it's it's exactly it's just like these kind of it just I I think I mean you could also take a sort of commercial lens to this”
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