This post explores the differences between software tools and services; how the stateful nature of software services led them to be closed; and posits how crypto networks can catalyze a new era of open services that reignite combinatorial innovation.
On a podcast, Tyler Cowen is asked to recommend some of his favorite books that he recently read.
He avoids suggesting specific ones, and instead describes the broader topics or areas of interest that he’s been studying lately. The history of tennis, for example.