Oxide and Friends
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!
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Hosts
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Adam Leventhal
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Bryan Cantrill