Reading

Here’s a draft reading list.

Macrohistory : Foundation, The Lessons of History, Unqualified Reservations, A Short History of Nearly Everything, The Selfish Gene, Albion's Seed, War and Peace and War, Stalin's War, Energy and Civilization, Who We Are and How We Got Here, The Ancient City, The Fourth Turning, The Grey Lady Winked

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

So, the general idea is to begin with macrohistorical context, zoom in to the details of how societies rise and fall, and then move to the specifics of how you’d (a) first build up yourself and then (b) build up your new society.

Network School Curriculum