# The Bigger Picture by Yash Bora

> On The Bigger Picture, I use the history of tech to explain emerging web3 trends.

## Recent Posts

- [Picture your market opportunity growing from $3.5T to $100 trillion](https://paragraph.com/@thebiggerpicture_2/peak-xv): Taking a quick glance at the Indian tech market and what's top of mind for Sequoia India
- [Picture yourself trying to start a company in an industry that hasn't changed in 5 decades](https://paragraph.com/@thebiggerpicture_2/american-dynamism): American Dynamism represents the urgency for builders to revitalize sleeping incumbents.
- [Picture Bruce Wayne building Modular Reactors](https://paragraph.com/@thebiggerpicture_2/antares): Abundant energy, from Earth to the Asteroid Belt
- [Picture yourself bridging Atoms & Bits](https://paragraph.com/@thebiggerpicture_2/new-limit): Extending human healthspan through epigenetics
- [Picture a tech industry without open source tools ](https://paragraph.com/@thebiggerpicture_2/history-of-open-source): A brief history of open source.
- [Picture yourself making the first cross-country phone call](https://paragraph.com/@thebiggerpicture_2/first-transcontinental-call): The 1915 Panama-Pacific Fair
- [Picture yourself building Git in 17 days](https://paragraph.com/@thebiggerpicture_2/launching-git-fast): How a fight between Linux and BitKeeper led to the launch of Git in record time
- [Picture yourself building the first webcam to see if there's any coffee left](https://paragraph.com/@thebiggerpicture_2/trojan-coffee): The start of live-streaming on the web at Cambridge University. Many important inventions come out of the need for pure convenience.
- [Picture Jennifer Aniston teaching you how to use Windows](https://paragraph.com/@thebiggerpicture_2/windows-95): Diving into the launch of the biggest tech launch of the 90s: Windows 95
- [Picture yourself as a 21 year old that brings the internet to the mainstream](https://paragraph.com/@thebiggerpicture_2/netscape-culture): Netscape sets the tone for a new generation of tech startups. Marc Andreessen think he's late to the internet when he gets too Silicon Valley.
- [Picture yourself suing Bezos after reading his 1-click Patent](https://paragraph.com/@thebiggerpicture_2/one-click): Diving into one of the most controversial internet patents and how a blogger from New Zealand got Amazon to change it's patent.
- [Picture yourself finding an AOL CD in your steak](https://paragraph.com/@thebiggerpicture_2/aol-carpet-bombing): Diving into Jan Brandt's carpet bombing strategy for AOL in the 1990s. This successful campaign took AOL to first place in ISP market share.
- [Picture yourself calculating the # of bytes sent on the web](https://paragraph.com/@thebiggerpicture_2/starting-amazon): The web's astronomical growth rate convinced Jeff Bezos to leave D. E. Shaw
- [Picture yourself building a knowledge graph on tech history](https://paragraph.com/@thebiggerpicture_2/tbp-knowledge-graph): Setting up a note taking system and knowledge graph for my tech history reading project
- [Picture yourself getting a masters in tech history](https://paragraph.com/@thebiggerpicture_2/tech-history-books): Exploring the top books covering different eras and perspectives of tech history
- [Picture yourself becoming a tech historian](https://paragraph.com/@thebiggerpicture_2/tech-historians): A list of tech historians and their contributions made by chatGPT
- [Picture yourself using GitHub Copilot to fight the next client war](https://paragraph.com/@thebiggerpicture_2/client-wars): Comparing the browser wars to the Farcaster client wars. How does the increasing speeds of software development change the way we think about the future of clients?
- [Picture a fork in Internet history](https://paragraph.com/@thebiggerpicture_2/byzantine-btc): Part 2 of the Byzantine Generals post. Focused on how the Bitcoin network solves this distributed computing problem.
- [Picture yourself as a spy in the Byzantine Army](https://paragraph.com/@thebiggerpicture_2/byzantine-generals): Diving into the Chinese & Byzantine generals problem in distributed computing
- [Picture yourself peeling an onion while sending an email](https://paragraph.com/@thebiggerpicture_2/tor-network): Understanding onion routing and diving into the early days of Tor network

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