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

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 Benedict Torvalds 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