In this special episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan celebrate one year of the podcast! Join them as they reflect on what's suprised them, share some stats, and discuss which of the authors they'd most like to pair program with!

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X: https://x.com/bookoverflowpod

Carter on X: https://x.com/cartermorgan

Nathan's Functionally Imperative: www.functionallyimperative.com

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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at https://www.bookoverflow.io

In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan discuss Thinking Like a Large Language Model by Mukund Sundararajan. Join them as they discuss the different mental models for working with AI, the art of prompt engineering, and some exciting developments in Carter's career!

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Thinking Like a Large Language Model by Mukund Sundararajan

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X: https://x.com/bookoverflowpod

Carter on X: https://x.com/cartermorgan

Nathan's Functionally Imperative: www.functionallyimperative.com

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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at https://www.bookoverflow.io

In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan discuss the final third of In The Plex by Steven Levy! Join them as they discuss Google's decision to withdraw from China, their war with book publishers, and their struggles to compete in social media!

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In The Plex by Steven Levy

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00:00 Intro

05:10 About the Book and Author

06:10 Initial Thoughts on the Book

11:27 The Real Story Behind Google Leaving China

20:44 Google's Moral Dilemmas Part 1 - DoubleClick & Lobbying

23:55 Riff: "Corporate Values" and Founder Mode

29:22 Google's Moral Dilemmas Part 2 - DoubleClick & Lobbying

37:59 Google's Book scanning project

42:56 Google vs Amazon's Different Approaches to Book Scanning

43:20 Innocent Arrogance - Street View and Privacy

46:40 Pirvacy and Surveillance Concerns

49:57 Epilogue: Chasing Taillights

55:53 Final Thoughts

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X: https://x.com/bookoverflowpod

Carter on X: https://x.com/cartermorgan

Nathan's Functionally Imperative: www.functionallyimperative.com

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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at https://www.bookoverflow.io

In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan discuss the second third of In The Plex by Steven Levy. Join them as they discuss how Google popularized the concept of cloud computing, the invention of Gmail, and more!

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In The Plex by Steven Levy

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X: https://x.com/bookoverflowpod

Carter on X: https://x.com/cartermorgan

Nathan's Functionally Imperative: www.functionallyimperative.com

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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at https://www.bookoverflow.io

In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan discuss the first third of In The Plex by Steven Levy. Join them as they discuss Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google's Stanford origins, and its impact on the world at large!

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In The Plex by Steven Levy

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Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/book-overflow/id1745257325

X: https://x.com/bookoverflowpod

Carter on X: https://x.com/cartermorgan

Nathan's Functionally Imperative: www.functionallyimperative.com

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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at https://www.bookoverflow.io

In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan discuss ReWork by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson. Join them as they each share their five favorite "proverbs" the book has to offer!

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ReWork by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson

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Grokking Concurrency by Kirill Bobrovhttps://amzn.to/4mwuAzP (paid link)

Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newporthttps://amzn.to/43bW06q (paid link)

Thinking in System by Donella H. Meadowshttps://amzn.to/43xYATl (paid link)

Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhouthttps://amzn.to/43xYCdV (paid link)

Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker (https://amzn.to/3F94ZfD (paid link)

Getting Real: The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson

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00:00 Intro

01:50 About the Book and Authors

05:00 Initial Thoughts on the Book

14:20 Top 5 Favorite Chapters Discussion

15:00 Tone is in Your Fingers - Tools vs Skills

19:00 Anti-Workaholism Philosophy

22:32 Focus on What Won't Change

27:14 Make a Dent in the Universe

33:24 Interruption is the Enemy of Productivity

39:59 Go to Sleep - The Importance of Rest

46:58 Say No by Default

51:35 Welcome Obscurity - Private Launches

56:12 Scratch Your Own Itch - Build What You Need

1:01:04 How to Say You're Sorry - Proper Apologies

1:04:42 Final Thoughts

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X: https://x.com/bookoverflowpod

Carter on X: https://x.com/cartermorgan

Nathan's Functionally Imperative: www.functionallyimperative.com

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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at https://www.bookoverflow.io

In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan discuss the second half of Grokking Concurrency by Kirill Bobrov! Join them as they discuss the mutexes, semaphores, the reactor pattern, and more!

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Grokking Concurrency by Kirill Bobrov

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Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/book-overflow/id1745257325

X: https://x.com/bookoverflowpod

Carter on X: https://x.com/cartermorgan

Nathan's Functionally Imperative: www.functionallyimperative.com

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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at https://www.bookoverflow.io

In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan discuss the first half of Grokking Concurrency by Kirill Bobrov! Join them as they discuss the basic building blocks of concurrency, how concurrency has evolved over time, and how building concurrent applications can increase performance!

Go Proverbs: https://go-proverbs.github.io/

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Grokking Concurrency by Kirill Bobrov

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00:00 Intro

02:07 About the Book and Author

03:35 Initial Thoughts on the Book

09:12 What is Concurrency vs Parallelism

12:35 CPUs and Moore's Law

22:19 IO Performance, Embarrassingly Parallel and Conway's Law

28:25 Building Blocks of Concurrency: Processes and Threads

33:05 Memory Sharing vs Communicating

39:13 Multitasking and Context Switching

45:24 Task Decomposition and Data Pipelines

52:35 Final Thoughts

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Carter on X: https://x.com/cartermorgan

Nathan's Functionally Imperative: www.functionallyimperative.com

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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at https://www.bookoverflow.io

In this special episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan take some time to debrief Georgia Tech's famously difficult Graduate Algorithms course, which Carter just passed! As alumni of the OMSCS program, Carter and Nathan discuss why they chose to pursue the degree, how the course has changed over time due to the improvements in LLMs, and how algorithmic thinking can benefit you as a software engineer!

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X: https://x.com/bookoverflowpod

Carter on X: https://x.com/cartermorgan

Nathan's Functionally Imperative: www.functionallyimperative.com

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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at https://www.bookoverflow.io

This week Carter and Nathan read Donella Meadows’ Thinking in Systems. A foundational primer on systems thinking, the book explores how stocks, flows, feedback loops, and leverage points shape everything from ecosystems to organizations. Join them as they discuss how systems thinking applies to software engineering, the hidden structures behind burnout and tech debt, and how to make high-leverage changes in complex systems.

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Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows

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Tidy First?: A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design by Kent Beck

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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler

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Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach by Mark Richards and Neal Ford

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One Nation Under Blackmail, Vol. 1: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein by Whitney Alyse Webb

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Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport

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The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating Senior, Tech Lead, and Staff Engineer Positions at Tech Companies and Startups by Gergely Orosz

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What Is ChatGPT Doing ... and Why Does It Work? by Stephen Wolfram

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00:00 Intro

01:41 About the Book

03:43 Thoughts on the Book

08:07 Covering the Foundations and Defining Terms

16:36 Feedback loops

22:31 Overconfidence and why models lead us astray.

35:56 Paradigms and Framing

49:30 Leverage Points

01:02:04 Final Thoughts

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X: https://x.com/bookoverflowpod

Carter on X: https://x.com/cartermorgan

Nathan's Functionally Imperative: www.functionallyimperative.com

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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at https://www.bookoverflow.io