what I've been reading

reading doesn't mean I recommend it, except when I do, but I haven't added that to the script that generates this page yet.

2025

Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value The Engineering Executive's Primer Computer Organization and Design RISC-V Edition: The Hardware Software Interface Why Managing Sucks and How to Fix It: A Results-Only Guide to Taking Control of Work, Not People The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces After the Software Wars Just for Fun : The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary Life With UNIX: A Guide for Everyone The UNIX Programming Environment Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters It's Better Than It Looks: Reasons for Optimism in an Age of Fear The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future With Robots Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future A Philosophy of Software Design

2024

Unix: A History and a Memoir Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks From the Stone Age to AI The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--But Some Don't Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America Eric Bischoff: Controversy Creates Cash Rendezvous With Oblivion Foundations for Designing User-Centered Systems: What System Designers Need to Know About People The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How the World Lost Its Mind Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies The Mind's Mirror: Risk and Reward in the Age of AI The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9–5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich - Expanded and Updated The Stoic Challenge: A Philosopher's Guide to Becoming Tougher, Calmer, and More Resilient The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge With AI On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans Bullshit Jobs Co-Intelligence: Living and Working With AI You Look Like a Thing and I Love You The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood A Guide to the Good Life What Is ChatGPT Doing ... And Why Does It Work? Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control Shorter Playful Parenting: An Exciting New Approach to Raising Children That Will Help You Nurture Close Connections, Solve Behavior Problems, and Encourage Confidence Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload 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 Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains Fat Chance Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making Financial Intelligence, Revised Edition: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean Cosmos Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business Nudge: The Final Edition Ask Iwata: Words of Wisdom From Satoru Iwata, Nintendo's Legendary CEO Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy Fail-Safe Investing: Lifelong Financial Security in 30 Minutes Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other What's the Matter With Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America The Shallows: How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (And Why We Don't Talk About It) Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now Hate Inc. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power The Geek Way: The Innovation Revolutionizing Business Success

2023

Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World Lurking: How a Person Became a User How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy