Naval Ravikant: "One of my favorite books of all time."

Shane Parrish: "Reading [this book], along with Seneca, has really helped foster my interest in philosophy.

So much of what they say speaks to me that I’m often left with entire pages underlined and margins filled with thoughts."

Sam Altman: "Great read."

Austen Allred: "[One of the books] that has inspired me the most or changed the way I live."

Joe Rogan: "I’m in the beginning of this audio book right now, and I’m just astonished at the wisdom and sheer intelligence of Marcus Aurelius, a man who was born 1900 years ago."

Arianna Huffington: "I discovered the book in high school and, yes, it was love at first sight."

Lyn Alden: "Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is perhaps the most absorbable [Stoic book]"

Anthony Scaramucci: "[One of] my top 5 books"

Shane Parrish: "A concise book of lessons drawn from the survey of history. The book comes highly recommended by someone I met at the Berkshire Hathaway meeting last weekend.

I can’t believe I haven’t read this before. I’ll be re-reading this a few times and I’ve started listening to the audio version in the car as well."

Naval Ravikant: "Concise and well written, summarizes the long arc of history with poetic insights."

Tim Ferriss: "Fantastic book. I read [The Lessons of History] because Ray Dalio recommended it."

Kevin Systrom: "It’s a great book."

Lyn Alden: "The economics chapter from 'Lessons of History' by Will and Ariel Durant is a good read on [debt cycles]."

Michael Saylor: "This book blew my mind; it is a work of genius. It put together the technical, economic, motivational and related issues around Bitcoin better than anything I've seen.

The best compliment I can give this book is that I read it and I decided to buy $425m of bitcoin. It was the most impactful on our way of thinking in Microstrategy and it made us want to invert our balance sheet to base it on a bitcoin standard."

Anthony Scaramucci: "This is a seminal work and recommended reading for everyone."

Nassim Taleb: "Bitcoin has no owner, no authority that can decide on its fate. It is owned by the crowd, its users.

And it now has a track record of several years, enough for it to be an animal in its own right.

This gives us, the crowd, an insurance policy against an Orwellian future."

Lyn Alden: "Saifedean Ammous, in his book The Bitcoin Standard, emphasizes the improved divisibility of gold due to banking technology [as a reason for gold winning over silver]."

Raoul Pal recommended 'The Bitcoin Standard' on Twitter.

Jack Dorsey: “’Cash Rules Everything Around Me.’ This incredible Wu-Tang hook references everything Alex explores in these chapters on the control exerted by governments and corporations through monetary policy, and how the Bitcoin protocol will help free us all."

Lyn Alden: “Alex has done a fantastic job reporting on the use of Bitcoin by people throughout the developing world as a tool against both authoritarianism and high inflation.

This aspect of Bitcoin remains poorly understood in general, which is what makes his detailed work on the topic so useful.”

Lyn Alden: "It’s a really accessible intro to economics for people, and seems like a great one to recommend."

Lyn Alden: "Really great book"

Lyn Alden: "[One thing] I liked about Vijay's book [is that] he spent like a third of the length talking about risks to his thesis."

Lyn Alden: "Good book"

Lyn Alden: "The Fiat Standard discusses fractional reserve bank lending as the primary source of money creation."

Lyn Alden: "I read a big chunk of Bitcoin is Venice on a return flight from Cairo a week ago, and damn is that a good book.

I am biased in its favor because I did MMA w/ jujitsu for over a decade so naturally I loved the opening chapters about that subject, but still. Really, really good."

Lyn Alden: "In his book Globalizing Capital, Barry Eichengreen explains why a gold standard won out over silver: it was mostly an accident."