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Krishaan Khubchand@krishaan_khubchand
Thank you for doing this AMA Balaji. I have a few questions: 1. Other than 'The Sovereign Individual', what are your other favourite books (both technical/non-technical)? 2. What advice would you give to students, other than maximising personal runway? 3. What would be the best way to start learning how to develop Blockchain applications, now that the infras… See more
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Balaji S. Srinivasan@balajis · CEO of 21.co and Board Partner at a16z.
@krishaan_khubchand Hi Krishaan! 1a) Some of my favorite technical books: - The Princeton Companion to Mathematics https://www.amazon.com/Princeton... - The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics https://www.amazon.com/Princeton... - The Nature of Mathematical Modeling https://www.amazon.com/Nature-Ma... I love books like those because they are both su… See more
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Krishaan Khubchand@krishaan_khubchand
@balajis the answer exceeded my expectations, thank you! I just have one last question: what does your personal learning routine look like? I'm really curious.
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Balaji S. Srinivasan@balajis · CEO of 21.co and Board Partner at a16z.
@krishaan_khubchand Here's my personal learning routine: 1) Find the equivalent of Schaum's in any domain, a book of problems with worked answers. 2) Grind through a bunch of representative problems *without* studying. Just give it your best shot, you might be able to figure it out. 3) Check your answers and use this as a form of placement test to identif… See more
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Rob L'Heureux@rob_lh
@balajis @krishaan_khubchand I pulled this into an Amazon list for future reference that anyone should be able to access. Be sure to copy them over to your own list! http://a.co/2xQAdyR
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