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Melia Robinson
2018-07-06T15:47:00Z
Silicon Valley investor and once-prolific tweeter Marc Andreessen is back on Twitter with a new avatar — it's a bald Charlie Brown clutching a book — and a summer reading list.
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Andreessen, cofounder of buzzy venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, abruptly left Twitter in the fall of 2016, deleting all his tweets after writing, "Taking a Twitter break!"
The early Facebook investor and creator of the first popular web browser had been well known for his authoritative Twitter presence, firing off tweetstorms and retweeting messages about tech, economics, and politics, at all hours of the day. Andreessen has nearly 700,000 followers on the social media site.
Now he's back, if only to share a summer reading list.
He tweeted on Thursday, "Thread: Books I've recently read and recommend."
Here they are:
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"Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman (2013)
Andreessen says: "Captivating dive into human decision making, marred by inclusion of several/many? psychology studies that fail to replicate. Will stand as a cautionary tale?"
Buy it here: Amazon
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"Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts" by Annie Duke (2018)
Andreessen says: "Compact guide to probabilistic domains like poker, or venture capital. Best articulation of 'resulting,' drawing bad conclusions from confusing process and outcome. Recommend for people operating in the real world."
Buy it here: Amazon
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"Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling" by Amy Chozick (2018)
Andreessen says: "On the bus/in the plane with the Hillary campaign. Revealing in many dimensions at once, and highly entertaining. Best book on the 2016 campaign so far?"
Buy it here: Amazon
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"Civilian Warriors: The Inside Story of Blackwater and the Unsung Heroes of the War on Terror" by Erik Prince (2014)
Andreessen says: "The founding and growth of military contractor Blackwater as told by its founder and CEO; newly relevant due to the Mueller investigation."
Buy it here: Amazon
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"The Spider Network: How a Math Genius and a Gang of Scheming Bankers Pulled Off One of the Greatest Scams in History" by David Enrich (2018)
Andreessen says: "'Billions'-esque saga of global financial market manipulation, at mind-boggling scale and hiding in plain sight, by a small cabal of bankers in London."
Buy it here: Amazon
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"The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness" by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga (2018)
Andreessen says: "Smash hit in Japan, and easy to see why. Adlerian psychologist meets Stoic philosophy in Socratic dialogue. Compelling from front to back. Highly recommend."
Buy it here: Amazon
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"But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past" by Chuck Klosterman (2017)
Andreessen says: "Wide-ranging meditation on how to think about the reality that we're probably wrong about most things we believe. Hard to read and not emerge humbled."
Buy it here: Amazon
"The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam" by Douglas Murray (2018)
Andreessen says: "One perspective on the politics of immigration in Europe, playing out in real time, e.g. Merkel almost getting deposed days ago. Confusing on multiple levels from US perspective."
Buy it here: Amazon
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"Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know?" by Philip Tetlock (2006)
Andreessen says: "Is the future knowable, and by whom? All pundits and commentators should publish their prediction track records, yet don't. What to pay attention to and what to ignore."
Buy it here: Amazon
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"Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue" by Ryan Holiday (2018)
Andreessen says: "Skin in the game as conflict of interest, or as attaching one's livelihood to one's speech? Who to listen to, and why. Ideal counterpart of @PTetlock's Expert Political Judgement."
Buy it here: Amazon
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"Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign" by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes (2017)
Andreessen says: "Best (?) book so far on the Democratic side of the 2016 race, most provocatively on the impact of the pres coverage of the email hacks on the last stages of the race."
Buy it here: Amazon
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"The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Chose Bad Policies" by Bryan Caplain (2008 – new edition)
Andreessen says: "'The median American is a moderate national socialist – statist to the core on both economic and social policiy. Given public opinion, the policies of First World democracies are surprisingly libertarian.'"
Buy it here: Amazon
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"A Very Expensive Poison: The Assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's War with the West" by Luke Harding (2017)
Andreessen says: "The astonishing story of the Litvinenko and Perepilichnyy assassinations in the UK; reads like a Lee Child thriller; plenty topical now."
Buy it here: Amazon
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"How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer" by Sarah Bakewell (2011)
Andreessen says: "'How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—All versions of a bigger question: How do you live?'"
Buy it here: Amazon
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