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nanometers's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
fast-paced
3.5
Fine summary of where we are in the digital / Internet age and how we progressed to get here. Blockchain explanations and examples are great for people who are unfamiliar or externally familiar but not inspiring those within. Hope it increases curiosity to the space though I'd encourage those curious to immerse themselves directly instead.
richchappelow's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.25
sophronisba's review against another edition
1.5
I do not have time to list all the problems with the book so I'm going to link to Dave Karpf's review and be done with it: https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/read-write-own-reviewed
maria_sevlievska's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
Non-fiction books often drag out, but I enjoyed every bit of Read, Write, Own.
It reads like a political manifesto for Web3 with Chris Dixon eager to excite the reader about blockchain and its potential to democratise the internet. He does a good job at explaining core crypto concepts, responding to recurring critique and detailing the technology's less familiar use cases.
I completely believe in an interoperable internet and loved the emphasis on blockchain's potential to open up the web.
A must read for anyone eager to envision what a fairer, better internet might look like (and idealists generally).
It reads like a political manifesto for Web3 with Chris Dixon eager to excite the reader about blockchain and its potential to democratise the internet. He does a good job at explaining core crypto concepts, responding to recurring critique and detailing the technology's less familiar use cases.
I completely believe in an interoperable internet and loved the emphasis on blockchain's potential to open up the web.
A must read for anyone eager to envision what a fairer, better internet might look like (and idealists generally).
bentrevett's review against another edition
3.0
this was a good introduction to the uses of blockchain (it will not explain how they work at anything more than a high-level). it clearly separates out how the internet works into three types of networks: corporate (i.e. owned by big tech), protocol (i.e. a defined specification, mostly run by a consortium that has no real ownership of things built on top of it), and blockchain (i.e. defined by software and run/managed by a community). most the book is spent on how bad corporate/protocol networks are (ran by a dictatorship/cannot expand due to no funding mechanisms, respectively) and how blockchain networks solve all these problems. the only thing that irked me is how these blockchain networks are supposed to bring us to salvation and that their killer-apps are just around the corner, but blockchain networks have been around for over a decade now. there has been no killer-apps. the argument of them just being in their infancy and being ready to pop-off at any moment doesn't fit with reality. there are still just ways that people make some speculative financial gains. dixon's argument would be that i'm just not entrepreneurial enough and i just don't get it. i'll be happy to be proven wrong (and so will he, considering he's head of a16z's crypto arm and will make a lot of money if they do take off).