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Sriram Krishnan is an experienced product leader and investor. He previously ran various mobile ad products for Snap and Facebook. At Facebook, he created and lead Facebook Audience Network which grew into a multi-billion dollar revenue effort and scaling the mobile app advertising business.
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What's Our Problem? book cover
What's Our Problem?
A Self-Help Book for Societies
Tim Urban - 2023-02-21
Sriram Krishnan
2023-02-21T17:30:03.000Z
@elonmusk One of the best books of recent times. A truly new framework to describe the last few years. @waitbutwhy      source
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The Creative ACT
A Way of Being
Rick Rubin - 2023-01-17
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From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book many years in the making that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us"I set out to write a book about what to do to make a great work of art. Instead, it revealed itself to be a book on how to be." --Ric...
Sriram Krishnan
2023-01-20T07:04:47.000Z
@hemeon @tferriss @RickRubin fantastic book.      source
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Build
An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
Tony Fadell - 2022-05-03
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Tony Fadell led the teams that created the iPod, iPhone and Nest Learning Thermostat and learned enough in 30+ years in Silicon Valley about leadership, design, startups, Apple, Google, decision-making, mentorship, devastating failure and unbelievable success to fill an encyclopedia.So that's what this book is. An advice encyclopedia. A mentor in a...
Sriram Krishnan
2023-01-19T07:54:04.000Z
@tfadell one of my favorite books last year.      source
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Games
Agency As Art (Thinking Art)
C. Thi Nguyen - 2020-03-24
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Games are a unique art form. Games work in the medium of agency. Game designers tell us who to be and what to care about during the game. Game designers sculpt alternate agencies, and game players submerge themselves in those alternate agencies. Thus, the fact that we play games demonstrates the fluidity of our own agency. We can throw ourselves, f...
Sriram Krishnan
2023-01-15T22:31:06.000Z
PS @add_hawk's book "Games: Agency as Art" may be one of the most impactful book I've read in recent times. It goes well with "Seeing like a State".      source
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Spare
Prince The Duke of Sussex Harry - 2023-01-10
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It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow - and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling - and how their lives would play out from that point on.For Harr...
Sriram Krishnan
2023-01-13T17:49:02.000Z
@KTmBoyle one of my favorite books in recent times.      source
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Endurance
Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Alfred Lansing - 2015-04-28 (first published in 1959)
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The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age. In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. In January 1915, after battling ...
Sriram Krishnan
2022-09-29T17:19:08.000Z
@AriannaSimpson Fantastic book      source
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Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton - 2012-05-14 (first published in 1990)
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An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them—for a price. Until something goes wrong. . . . In Jurassic Park, Michael Crich...
Sriram Krishnan
2022-06-10T00:21:56.000Z
Childhood sci fi books that most influenced me - 2001 - Jurassic Park - Sphere - Rendezvous with Rama ( and several Clarke short stories) - Snowcrash - I, Robot      source
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I, Robot
Isaac Asimov - 2004-06-01 (first published in 1950)
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The three laws of Robotics:1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.2) A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Secon...
Sriram Krishnan
2022-06-10T00:21:56.000Z
Childhood sci fi books that most influenced me - 2001 - Jurassic Park - Sphere - Rendezvous with Rama ( and several Clarke short stories) - Snowcrash - I, Robot      source
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Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson - 2003-08-26 (first published in 1992)
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After the Internet, what came next?Enter the Metaverse - cyberspace home to avatars and software daemons, where anything and just about everything goes. Newly available on the Street - the Metaverse's main drag - is Snow Crash, a cyberdrug. Trouble is Snow Crash is also a computer virus - and something more. Because once taken it infects the person...
Sriram Krishnan
2022-06-10T00:21:56.000Z
Childhood sci fi books that most influenced me - 2001 - Jurassic Park - Sphere - Rendezvous with Rama ( and several Clarke short stories) - Snowcrash - I, Robot      source
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2001
a Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey Series)
Arthur C. Clarke - 2000-09-01 (first published in 1968)
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On the Moon, an enigma is uncovered.So great are the implications of this discovery that for the first time men are sent out deep into our solar system.But long before their destination is reached, things begin to go horribly, inexplicably wrong...One of the greatest-selling science fiction novels of our time, this classic book will grip you to the...
Sriram Krishnan
2022-06-10T00:21:56.000Z
Childhood sci fi books that most influenced me - 2001 - Jurassic Park - Sphere - Rendezvous with Rama ( and several Clarke short stories) - Snowcrash - I, Robot      source
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How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley
The Making of Prince of Persia by Jordan Mechner
Always Day One by Alex Kantrowitz
Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener
Loonshots by Safi Bahcall
Algorithms To Live By by Brian Christian
Slow Horses by Mick Herron
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows
The Company by John Micklethwait
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Sphere by Michael Crichton
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
The Global Negotiator by Trenholme J Griffin
A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander