The Web 3.0 Rabbit Hole

Made Super Simple · 3 min read

Welcome to Super Simple — the best way to go down the Web3 rabbit hole Short summaries of curated content. 󠀼No external links. No biases. < 5 mins. Free

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Leveling Up On Web 3.0

Super Simple is the resource I wish existed when I went down the Web 3.0 rabbit hole. A set of easy to understand summaries and distillations of the best Web3 content out there.

The first 10 Super Simple Summaries alone would have saved me ~200 hours

If you are new here, looking for a starting point to deep dive from, take a look first at the potential gameplan and full index below. Or if you want to jump straight in to it, just begin with Summary #1.

If you don’t know the basics (What is blockchain? Are tokens the same as cryptocurrency?), start here - Blockchain Basics. It’s quick. And super simple.

Btw, this is not crypto / coin investment advice. I am only presenting curated content put out by experts. For more on what we are doing - About Super Simple

And here are the rules we are following to keep it Super Simple - Ground Rules

Gameplan And Index

Go through the Super Simple gameplan to figure out the best starting point for you. Or scroll down to the Full Index to see a complete list of summaries and sources.

Gameplan

1. Understand what Web3 means and why its important from Chris Dixon, General Partner at A16Z, one of Web3’s most vocal advocates:
   

2. It all started with Bitcoin. Understand why it is loved by some of its prominent evangelists - the Winklevoss twins and Michael Saylor:
   

3. Learn additional building blocks for Web3 and how Ethereum came to be from its widely respected co-founder, Vitalik Buterin:
   

4. Move on to NFTs. While Bitcoin decentralized money, NFTs decentralize everything. The a16z explainer lays out what potential futures look like:

5. Speaking of potential futures, what about the world at large? Balaji Srinivasan abandons all status quo bias in discussing the impact of crypto:
   

6. Learn about Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), which will change the future of work by changing how we organize to create value
   

7. De-Fi. The metaverse. And more. TBD. This is a dynamic list.
   

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Full Index

• About Super Simple

• Ground Rules To Keeping It Super Simple

• Blockchain Basics
  

1. It Is Impossible Not To Be Excited About Web 3 (After Reading This) -

   5 Mental Models For Web 3
   [5 Parts | 4 Minute Read Each]

   • Source: Chris Dixon on The Bankless Podcast

2. Money Is The Greatest Social Network Of All - [4 Minute Read]

   • Source: The Winklevoss Twins on Real Vision with Raoul Paul

3. The Boy Genius and His World Computer: Ethereum - [5 Minute Read]

   • Source: Vitalik Buterin on The Lex Fridman Podcast
     

4. Coming soon: Bitcoin Bull [4 Parts]

   • Sources: Michael Saylor on ‘Real Vision’, on ‘The Investor’s Podcast’, on the ‘What Bitcoin Did’ podcast
     

5. JPEG Mania - All About NFTs - [5 Minute Read]

   • Source: The ‘a16z podcast’ - Episode: All About NFTs

6. Coming soon: The Wonders of Web 3

   • Source: Chris Dixon and Naval on The Tim Ferriss Show
     

7. Coming soon: Ignore The Status Quo

   • Source: Balaji Srinivasan On The Tim Ferriss Show
     

8. DAO: The Future Of Work - [4 Minute Read]

   • Sources: Super Team Podcast + write-ups on Apollo Capital and TheTokenDispatch.com
     

9. DAOs Part 2 - Advanced

   • Source: Bankless Podcast

     
     

10. Coming Soon: De-Fi, Metaverse

11. TBD

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