Books in the Box III

In an Oxide and Friends tradition, Bryan and Adam invite the community to share book recommendations. In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers on included Steve Klabnik, Tom Lyon, Ian Grunert, Owen Anderson, phillipov, makowski, and saethlin. (Did we miss your name and/or get it wrong? Drop a PR!) Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:Elon JetHigh Noon: The Inside Story of Scott McNealy and the Rise of Sun Microsystems by Southwick, KarenMaking PCR: A Story of Biotechnology by Paul RabinowSun Labs vs. SunSoft Water Fight 1992Cyberville: Clicks, Culture, and the Creation of an Online Town Hardcover by Stacy HornBuilt to Fail: The Inside Story of Blockbuster's Inevitable Bust Kindle Edition by Alan PayneA History of Silicon Valley - Vol 1: The 20th Century Paperback by Piero ScaruffiH-E-BMoby Dick by Herman Melville (Arion Press)A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky ChambersEndurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred LansingInto the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El FaroIf Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future Hardcover by Jill LeporeUNIVAC and the 1952 Presidential ElectionNPR: The Night A Computer Predicted The Next PresidentDoom Guy: Life in First Person by John RomeroFrom Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia Got Compulsory Voting by Judith BrettBryan had a reading list for his wedding?! (his wife confirms)The Fatal Shore by Robert HughesHarp in the South by Ruth ParkCloudstreet by Tim WintonDeath of the Lucky Country by Donald Horne30 Days in Sydney by Peter CareyLeviathan by John BirminghamThe Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding by Robert HughesBarbarians Led by Bill Gates by Jennifer Edstrom and, Marlin EllerMurray Sargent's account of how his Scroll Screen Tracer got Windows to work in protected modeStartup: A Silicon Valley Adventure by Jerry KaplanDeviceScriptWashington: A Life by ChernowCalifornia Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and What It Means for America's Power GridCommand and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric SchlosserThe Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard RothsteinActs of the Apostles: Mind over Matter: Volume Blue by John F.X. SundmanThunder Below!: The USS Barb Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II by Eugene B. FluckeyThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanThe Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution by Gregory ZuckermanThe Predictors: How a Band of Maverick Physicists Used Chaos Theory to Trade Their Way to a Fortune on Wall Street by Thomas A. BassThe Eudaemonic Pie: The Bizarre True Story of How a Band of Physicists and Computer Wizards Took On Las Vegas by Thomas A BassSome of the other books mentioned in the Discord channel:Herr aller Dinge/Lord of All Things by Andreas EschbachDebt: The First 5,000 Years by David GraeberThe Sciences of the Artificial by Herbert A. SimonCalifornia Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and What It Means for America's Power Grid by Katherine BluntThe Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution Hardcover by Gregory ZuckermanThe Predictors: How a Band of Maverick Physicists Used Chaos Theory to Trade Their Way to a Fortune on Wall Street by Thomas A. BassThe Eudaemonic Pie: The Bizarre True Story of How a Band of Physicists and Computer Wizards Took On Las Vegas by Thomas A BassModels.Behaving.Badly.: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life by Emanuel Derman