Books in the Box V

Revisiting an annual tradition--Books in the Box! Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends share book recommendations (and--sometimes--anti-recommendations). Take a listen if you're looking for your next read.
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by some guests noted below:
Previously, on Oxide and Friends:
OxF s05e06 - A Half‑Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup
OxF s05e26 - Technological Revolutions with Jerry Neumann
OxF s04e03 - Fork in the Road for Terraform
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
Other Notes:
Princeton Review: Happiest Students
UMass Dining Named Best Campus Food by The Princeton Review
CHM Oral Histories
Night Rider (and K.I.T.T.)
From Bryan and Adam (and others)
The Mouse Driver Chronicles
Fumbling the Future
Slingshot
Chip War
Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital @bcantrill (economics book recommendation)
Snow Crash (another Neal Stephenson book)
The Big Short
Reinventing The Wheel
Eccentric Orbits (recommended by listener)
Language Machines Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism (recommended by listener)
Molly White's **review ** of Read Write Own
Careless People
NOT A RECOMMENDATION If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies (If you are Molly White, please destroy this for us!)
Surreal Numbers by Knuth (recommended by listeners)
From Oliver Herman
Open Circuits
Systems Performance
Why We're Getting Poorer
Termination Shock
From Tom Lyon
From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog
See also Systems We Love: Life of an Airline Flight
The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts
The NVIDIA Way
From Dan McDonald
Inventing the Renaissance
Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation
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