Oxide and Friends

Books in the Box IV


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The 4th installment of the Oxide and Friends book recommendation series. After a brief(ish) diversion into Crimson Twins, Tomax and Xamot, Bryan and Adam are joined by several Oxide Friends to discuss their favorite recent reads.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Nick Gideo, Josh, Ian Grunert, Tom Lyon, Zander, and Oliver Herman.

  • Tomax and Xamot

Recommendations:

  • Into the Raging Sea - Slade
  • The Making of Prince of Persia - Jordan Mechner
  • The Big Score - Malone
    • CHM: Oral History of Hector Ruiz
    • AMD Founder Jerry Sanders Rare Interview (video)
  • Chip War - Miller
    • CHM: Morris Chang, in conversation with Jen-Hsun Huang (video)
    • Acquired: TSMC (audio)
  • Creativity Inc. - Catmull and Wallace
  • Hardcore Software - Sinofsky
    • OxF: The Showstopper Show
  • Exploding the Phone - Lapsley
  • The Cuckoo's Egg - Stoll
  • Inside the Hidden World of Elevator Phone Phreaking
  • The Last Bookstore
  • The MouseDriver Chronicles - Lusk, Harrison
  • Hatching Twitter - Bilton
  • Character Limit - Conger, Mac
  • The Maniac - Labatut
  • Shift Happens - Wichary
  • The Last Philosopher in Texas - Chacon
  • The Idea Factory - Gertner
  • Observability Engineering - Majors, Fong-Jones, Miranda
  • Red Cloud at Dawn - Gordin
  • Biohazard - Alibek
  • More Money than God - Mallaby
  • Remembered Prisoners of a Forgotten War - Carlson
  • IBM and the Holocaust - Black
    • Bryan's blog on the topic
  • DEC is Dead, Long Live DEC - Schein, DeLisi, Kampas, Sonduck
    • OxF: The Rise and Fall of DEC

Bonus recommendations from chat

  • Not the End of the World - Ritchie
  • The Man Who Broke Capitalism - Gelles
  • Children of Time (series) - Tchaikovsky
  • The Murderbot Diaries (series) - Wells
  • Organizational Behavior Real Research for Real Managers - Pearce
  • Hacking: The Art of Exploitation - Erickson
  • Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power Hardcover - Ryback
  • Successful Aging - Levitin (felt like maybe a dig at Adam and Bryan?)
  • Speeding the Net: The Inside Story of Netscape and How It Challenged Microsoft - Quittner, Slatalla
  • Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs - Kocienda

If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!

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