Books in the Box VI
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It's the annual Oxide and Friends tradition: Books in the Box! What books have the Oxide friends enjoyed? Didn't catch the show live, feel free to add your book recommendation as a PR in the show notes.
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included Tom Lyon, and Ian Grunert.
Previously, on Oxide and Friends:
- OxF s01e16 - The Books in the Box
- OxF s02e18 - Books in the Box Redux
- OxF s03e22 - Books in the Box III
- OxF s04e28 - Books in the Box IV
- OxF s05e30 - Books in the Box V
Recommendations from Bryan and Adam:
- Setting the Table by Danny Meyer
- Incorruptible by Eric Ries
- Steve Jobs in Exile by Geoffrey Cain
- The Power Law by Sebastian Mallaby
- Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
- Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green
- Need more? Phantom Plague by Vidya Krishnan
- American Poison by Daniel Stone
- The Morris Chang autobiography (in Chinese): Volume 1 and Volume 2
- Apple in China by Patrick McGee
- Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing by Randall Stross
- The Everything Store by Brad Stone
- Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson (from last year's recommendations)
- Eccentric Orbits by John Bloom (from last year's recommendations)
Books in the Bonfire:
- Grateful Geek by Jean-Louis Gassée
- If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies (again)
Recommendations from Tom Lyon:
- Me and My Big Ideas by Lee Felsenstein
- The Proof in the Code by Kevin Hartnett
- Restoring the Pitchfork Ranch by A. Thomas Cole
Recommendations from Ian Grunert:
- Eccentric Orbits by John Bloom
- King PONG by Raiford Guins
- The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
- The Master Switch by Tim Wu
Also mentioned (but not necessarily recommended):
- Snow Crash
- You Can See Everything (A24)
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
- Creating the Digital Future by Albert Yu (mentioned, not recommended)
- Thomas Midgley Jr.
- Robert A. Kehoe and the Kehoe principle
- Prefontaine (1997)
- Community Memory
- Lean
- The AGI Chronicles by Kevin Roose (mentioned, not yet read)
- Racing the Beam
- At the End of the Rainbow: The Identity Crisis of the Atari 8-Bit Computer
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!