Books in the Box IV

Oxide and Friends

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

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