what I've been reading

2025

Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart

Nicholas Carr

Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading

Nadia Asparouhova

Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World With OKRs

John Doerr

Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman

Stallman

Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live

Susan Morrison

Personal Finance for Tech Professionals: In Silicon Valley and Beyond

Bruce Barton

Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Cal Newport

Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products

Marty Cagan

Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software

Nadia Eghbal

Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love

Marty Cagan

Outcomes Over Output: Why Customer Behavior Is the Key Metric for Business Success

Joshua Seiden

Aphantasia: Experiences, Perceptions, and Insights

Alan Kendle

Arcade Game Typography: The Art of Pixel Type

Toshi Omigari

Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook

Lori. Emerson

Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All

Michael Shellenberger

Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure

Nadia Eghbal

The Art of Action: How Leaders Close the Gaps Between Plans, Actions, and Results

Stephen Bungay

Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value

Melissa Perri

The Engineering Executive's Primer

Will Larson

Computer Organization and Design RISC-V Edition: The Hardware Software Interface

David A. Patterson & John L. Hennessy

Why Managing Sucks and How to Fix It: A Results-Only Guide to Taking Control of Work, Not People

Jody Thompson & Cali Ressler

The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary

Eric S. Raymond

Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau

After the Software Wars

Keith Curtis

Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary

Linus Torvalds & David Diamond

Life With UNIX: A Guide for Everyone

Don Libes & Sanford Ressler

The UNIX Programming Environment

Brian W. Kernighan & Rob Pike

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Hans Rosling & Ola Rosling & Anna Rosling Ronnlund

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

Matt Ridley

Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters

Steven Pinker

It's Better Than It Looks: Reasons for Optimism in an Age of Fear

Gregg Easterbrook

The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future With Robots

Daniela Rus & Gregory Mone

Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future

Johan Norberg

A Philosophy of Software Design

John K. Ousterhout

2024

Unix: A History and a Memoir

Brian W. Kernighan

Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe

Martin Rees

Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow

Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

Steven Pinker

The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet

Yancey Strickler & The Dark Forest Collective

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks From the Stone Age to AI

Yuval Noah Harari

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--But Some Don't

Nate Silver

Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America

Abraham Riesman

Eric Bischoff: Controversy Creates Cash

Eric Bischoff & Jeremy Roberts

Rendezvous With Oblivion

Thomas Frank

Foundations for Designing User-Centered Systems: What System Designers Need to Know About People

Frank E. Ritter & Gordon D. Baxter & Elizabeth F. Churchill

The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How the World Lost Its Mind

Dan Davies

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

Nick Bostrom

The Mind's Mirror: Risk and Reward in the Age of AI

Daniela Rus

The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9–5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich - Expanded and Updated

Timothy Ferriss

The Stoic Challenge: A Philosopher's Guide to Becoming Tougher, Calmer, and More Resilient

William B. Irvine

The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge With AI

Ray Kurzweil

On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

Nate Silver

The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

Ray Kurzweil

Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans

Melanie Mitchell

Bullshit Jobs

David Graeber

Co-Intelligence: Living and Working With AI

Ethan Mollick

You Look Like a Thing and I Love You

Janelle Shane

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

James Gleick

A Guide to the Good Life

William Braxton Irvine

What Is ChatGPT Doing ... And Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control

Stuart Russell

Shorter

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

Playful Parenting: An Exciting New Approach to Raising Children That Will Help You Nurture Close Connections, Solve Behavior Problems, and Encourage Confidence

Lawrence J. Cohen

Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment

Daniel Kahneman & Olivier Sibony & Cass R. Sunstein

The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

Coleman Hughes

A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload

Cal Newport

The Looting of America: How Wall Street's Game of Fantasy Finance Destroyed Our Jobs, Pensions, and Prosperity—and What We Can Do About It

Les Leopold

Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?

Thomas Frank

The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains

Robert H. Lustig

Fat Chance

Robert H. Lustig

Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making

Tony Fadell

Financial Intelligence, Revised Edition: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean

Karen Berman & Joe Knight

Cosmos

Carl Sagan

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Neil Postman

Nudge: The Final Edition

Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein

Ask Iwata: Words of Wisdom From Satoru Iwata, Nintendo's Legendary CEO

Satoru Iwata

Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

David D. Burns, M. D.

Fail-Safe Investing: Lifelong Financial Security in 30 Minutes

Harry Browne

Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other

Sherry Turkle

What's the Matter With Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

Thomas Frank

The Shallows: How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember

Nicholas Carr

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt

Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (And Why We Don't Talk About It)

Elizabeth Anderson

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

Cal Newport

Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

Jaron Lanier

Hate Inc.

Matt Taibbi

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

Shoshana Zuboff

The Geek Way: The Innovation Revolutionizing Business Success

Andrew McAfee

2023

Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

Cal Newport

Lurking: How a Person Became a User

Joanne McNeil

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

Jenny Odell