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Some of what I have read (or plan to read) starting Sep 2021.
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Phantoms in the Brain
V.S. Ramachandran & Sandra Blakeslee
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Betty Edwards
Mathematica
David Bessis
Diaspora
Greg Egan
A Breath of Life
Clarice Lispector
Technological Slavery
Theodore J. Kaczynski
A Piece of the Action
Joe Nocera
Electronic Value Exchange
David L. Stearns
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Where the Conflict Really Lies
Alvin Plantinga
The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch & Jeffrey Zaslow
The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew
Lee Kuan Yew
The Man From the Future
Ananyo Bhattacharya
My Name Is Why
Lemn Sissay
Writing A Compiler In Go
Thorsten Ball
Writing An Interpreter In Go
Thorsten Ball
100 Go Mistakes
Telva Harsanyi
Concurrency in Go
Katherine Cox-Buday
Learning Go
Jon Bodner
Mastering Monero
SerHack
The UNIX-HATERS Handbook
Simson Garfinkel, Daniel Weise & Steven Strassmann
Merchants of Death
H.C. Engelbrecht & F.C. Hanighen
Let's Go!
Alex Edwards
The Maniac
Benjamin Labatut
The Architecture of Open Source Applications
Amy Brown & Greg Wilson
Financial Theory with Python: A Gentle Introduction
Yves Hilpisch
The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu
The Gray Lady Winked
Ashley Rindsberg
Architecting Distributed Transactional Applications
Guy Harrison, Andrew Marshall & Charles Custer
Pro Bash Programming
Chris Johnson
Chaos: Making a New Science
James Gleick
The Deficit Myth
Stephanie Kelton
The Unabomber Manifesto
Theodore Kaczynski
The Economics of Abundance
Wolfgang Hoeschele
Poor Charlie's Almanack
Peter D. Kaufman
The Art of SQL
Stephane Faroult with Peter Robson
Black Edge
Sheelah Kolhatkar
The Little Book of Deep Learning
François Fleuret
Superintelligence
Nick Bostrom
Building Browser Extensions
Matt Frisbie
Crafting Interpreters
Robert Nystrom
Making NES Games in Assembly
Kevin Zurawel
Learn Rust in a Month of Lunches
David MacLeod
The Ultimate Guide to React Native Optimization
Callstack
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
The API-First Transformation
Kin Lane
Formgiving
Bjarke Ingels Group
Build Your Own Redis with C/C++
James Smith
Thinking in Systems
Donella H. Meadows
The House of Morgan
Ron Chernow
Make Something Wonderful
Steve Jobs
Economics in One Lesson
Henry Hazlitt
Life Between Buildings
Jan Gehl
The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Society of Minds
Marvin Minsky
Real Food/Fake Food
Larry Olmsted
Out Of Thin Air
Michael Crawley
Boom and Bust
William Quinn & John D. Turner
A History of the Global Stock Market
B. Mark Smith
The Richest Man In Babylon
George Samuel Clason
High Performance Django
Peter Baumgartner & Yann Malet
The Temple of Django Database Performance
Andrew Brookins
The Big Short
Michael Lewis
Flash Boys: Not So Fast
Peter Kovac
Flash Boys
Michael Lewis
Zero To Production In Rust
Luca Palmieri
Escape into Meaning
Evan Puschak
Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese
Prisoners of Geography
Tim Marshall
When McKinsey Comes to Town
Walt Bogdanich, Michael Forsythe
Token Economy
Shermin Voshmgir
Command and Control
Eric Schlosser
Sun and Steel
Yukio Mishima
Damage
Tris Dixon
The Creative Gene
Hideo Kojima
The Network State
Balaji Srinivasan
PostgreSQL: Up and Running
Leo S. Hsu and Regina O. Obe
Unrestricted Warfare
Colonel Qiao Liang, Colonel Wang Xiangsui
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
The Psychedelic Experience
Timothy Leary
Founders at Work
Jessica Livingston
Dune
Frank Herbert
The Other Brain
R. Douglas Fields
The Ethics of Money Production
Jorg Guido Hulsmann
Happier, No Matter What
Tal Ben-Shahar
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
John Perkins
Machine Learning For Absolute Beginners
Oliver Theobald
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne
History of Money
Glyn Davies
Build
Tony Fadell
Emergent Tokyo
Joe McReynolds
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends
Nicole Perlroth
The Art of Attack
Maxie Reynolds
The Art of Cyberwarfare
Jon DiMaggio
Drawdown
Paul Hawken
Primates of the World
Jean-Jacques Petter
Primate Behavioral Ecology
Karen B. Strier
The Year Round Solar Greenhouse
Lindsey Schiller
Feeding the World
Giovanni Federico
Where Is My Flying Car?
J. Storrs Hall
The Dream Machine
M. Mitchell Waldrop
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
Weapons of Math Destruction
Cathy O'Neil
Wax & Gold
Sam McManus
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A Philosophy of Software Design
John Ousterhout
The Pragmatic Programmer
Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
Two Scoops of Django
Daniel and Audrey Roy Greenfeld
Designing Great Web APIs
James Higginbotham
I Didn't Do It for You
Michela Wrong
Atomic Habits
James Clear
The Bitcoin Standard
Saifedean Ammous
AI Superpowers
Kai-Fu Lee
The Shadow King
Maaza Mengiste
Docker Up and Running
Sean P. Kane
The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman
GDP
Diane Coyle
The Shockwave Rider
John Brunner
Computing With Data
Guy Lebanon, Mohamed El-Geish
Dead Aid
Dambisa Mayo
Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker
Show Your Work
Austin Kleon
Decoupled Django
Valentino Gagliardi
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Martin Kleppmann