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Tulipmania was a bubble—but so was the Manhattan Project. Under the right conditions, Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber argue, bubbles mobilize the ideas, capital, and energy needed to bring about technological and scientific revolutions. Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation is

I’ve thought about this a lot—there are a ton of topics that are compelling in longer-than-essay form but don’t require more than ±100 pages. (There’s no shame in being able to write succinctly!) If you have ideas in this vein for Stripe Press let me and Tamara Winter know!

Speculative bubbles have driven technological adoption for 250 years. In Boom, Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber argue that Bitcoin is unique: Its protocol doesn't just attract bubbles, it’s designed around them. press.stripe.com/boom

Most analyses of bubbles focus on their waste and inefficiency. But treating them as pure coordination failures misses their crucial function: The irrational exuberance of bubbles is how markets force open otherwise-closed technological frontiers. press.stripe.com/boom

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The incredible Stripe Press book BOOM! Presented in New York by the authors Byrne Hobart Tobias Huber ✨ Congrats Tamara Winter 💕🇺🇸

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🍍 Works in Progress issue 18 is out now 👶 Featuring: - Prehistoric psychopaths - The steam networks of NYC - Urbanism with Chinese characteristics - How we may conquer menopause - The Hanseatic League's rise and fall - The pineapple: the king of fruits And more!

Coming [very] soon: Dwarkesh Patel x Stripe Press: stripe.press/scaling

.Dwarkesh Patel has a new book on AI out from Stripe Press and we arrive with a new Core Memory podcast with the man himself to talk about the book, his beard and his podcasting rise Timestamps: 0:00 – Intro: AI’s explosive evolution 1:30 – The “Scaling Era” & making the book

"VCs, law school professors steering students to feeder clerkships are all in some sense breeders of bubbles. They facilitate the conditions conducive to maximum effort, but, by holding a diversified portfolio of projects + protégés, are more protected" thenewatlantis.com/publications/a…

Sydney, we’re coming back! Join us at Blackbird's Sunset Afterparty for a Stripe Press pop-up. 📚 Stop by for refreshments, conversation, and limited-edition giveaways—and, of course, the full Stripe Press catalog will be available for purchase. RSVP: lu.ma/5m8ceuo0

This tweet sold ~10K copies of The Art of Doing Science and Engineering…IOW, all of our remaining inventory. 🥹 Very excited that more copies are coming off the printer as we speak. I love seeing the behind-the-scenes of how a book is assembled:

How does a 24-year-old podcaster end up interviewing the likes of Mark Zuckerberg and Satya Nadella? On “Money Talks”, Mike Bird speaks to Dwarkesh Patel econ.st/4jifxI3

.Dwarkesh Patel interviewed the most influential thinkers in the world of #AI and chronicled the history of AI up to now in his book, The Scaling Era. He talks to @econtalker about the dangers and potential of AI, and the role scale plays in AI progress. loom.ly/EXEHWsw

We made a new batch of zines for the Stripe Press coffee shop at Stripe Sessions next week, and let me tell ya, they are stunning. Including zines for Dwarkesh Patel and Brian Potter’s forthcoming books, plus one for Claire Hughes Johnson’s Scaling People, because it was long overdue!

Tag yourself on the Stripe Press Sessions Cafe bookshelf—I’m at the intersection of Christian Dior and Christopher Alexander 🙂‍↔️

📚 We're coming to Washington, DC! ☕ Stop by our pop-up coffee shop and bookstore at Signal House on June 28 for coffee and conversation. The full Stripe Press catalog will also be available for purchase. RSVP here: lu.ma/kcnytcqs

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