Books in the Box IV

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 (mastodon.social/@bcantrill) and Adam Leventhal (mastodon.social/@ahl), we were joined by Nick Gideo (bsky.app/profile/engid.bsky.social), Josh, Ian Grunert (hachyderm.io/@iangrunert), Tom Lyon (mastodon.social/@aka_pugs), Zander, and Oliver Herman.
• Tomax and Xamot (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomax_and_Xamot)
Recommendations:
• Into the Raging Sea - Slade (amazon.com/Into-Raging-Sea-Thirty-Three-Megast…)
• The Making of Prince of Persia - Jordan Mechner (press.stripe.com/the-making-of-prince-of-persia)
• The Big Score - Malone (amazon.com/Big-Score-Billion-Dollar-Silicon/dp…)• CHM: Oral History of Hector Ruiz (youtube.com/watch?v=9YzMJi5T3A8)
• AMD Founder Jerry Sanders Rare Interview (youtube.com/watch?v=HqWWoaA8pIs) (video)

• Chip War - Miller (amazon.com/Chip-War-Worlds-Critical-Technology…)• CHM: Morris Chang, in conversation with Jen-Hsun Huang (youtube.com/watch?v=u-x7PdnvCyI) (video)
• Acquired: TSMC (acquired.fm/episodes/tsmc) (audio)

• Creativity Inc. - Catmull and Wallace (amazon.com/Creativity-Inc-Overcoming-Unseen-In…)
• Hardcore Software - Sinofsky (hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com)• OxF: The Showstopper Show (share.transistor.fm/s/9dc9be3f)

• Exploding the Phone - Lapsley (amazon.com/Exploding-Phone-Phil-Lapsley/dp/080…)
• The Cuckoo's Egg - Stoll (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_%28bo…)
• Inside the Hidden World of Elevator Phone Phreaking (wired.com/story/elevator-phone-phreaking-defcon)
• The Last Bookstore (lastbookstorela.com)
• The MouseDriver Chronicles - Lusk, Harrison (amazon.com/MouseDriver-Chronicles-Adventures-F…)
• Hatching Twitter - Bilton (amazon.com/Hatching-Twitter-Story-Friendship-B…)
• Character Limit - Conger, Mac (amazon.com/Character-Limit-Elon-Destroyed-Twit…)
• The Maniac - Labatut (amazon.com/MANIAC-Benjamin-Labatut/dp/0593654471)
• Shift Happens - Wichary (shifthappens.site)
• The Last Philosopher in Texas - Chacon (amazon.com/gp/product/B0D46QH85L)
• The Idea Factory - Gertner (amazon.com/Idea-Factory-Great-American-Innovat…)
• Observability Engineering - Majors, Fong-Jones, Miranda (info.honeycomb.io/observability-engineering-or…)
• Red Cloud at Dawn - Gordin (amazon.com/Red-Cloud-Dawn-Truman-Monopoly/dp/0…)
• Biohazard - Alibek (amazon.com/Biohazard-Chilling-Largest-Biologic…)
• More Money than God - Mallaby (amazon.com/More-Money-Than-God-Relations/dp/01…)
• Remembered Prisoners of a Forgotten War - Carlson (amazon.com/Remembered-Prisoners-Forgotten-War-…)
• IBM and the Holocaust - Black (amazon.com/IBM-Holocaust-Strategic-Alliance-Co…)• Bryan's blog on the topic (bcantrill.dtrace.org/2023/11/26/what-punch-car…)

• DEC is Dead, Long Live DEC - Schein, DeLisi, Kampas, Sonduck (amazon.com/DEC-Dead-Long-Live-Corporation/dp/1…)• OxF: The Rise and Fall of DEC (oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-r…)

Bonus recommendations from chat
• Not the End of the World - Ritchie (amazon.com/dp/B0C5JSZ6H9)
• The Man Who Broke Capitalism - Gelles (amazon.com/dp/B09L57P9KK)
• Children of Time (series) - Tchaikovsky (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Time_%28nove…)
• The Murderbot Diaries (series) - Wells (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murderbot_Diaries)
• Organizational Behavior Real Research for Real Managers - Pearce (amazon.com/Organizational-Behavior-Real-Resear…)
• Hacking: The Art of Exploitation - Erickson (amazon.com/Hacking-Art-Exploitation-Jon-Ericks…)
• Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power Hardcover - Ryback (amazon.com/Takeover-Hitlers-Final-Rise-Power/d…)
• Successful Aging - Levitin (google.com/books/edition/Successful_Aging/7yeZ…) (felt like maybe a dig at Adam and Bryan?)
• Speeding the Net: The Inside Story of Netscape and How It Challenged Microsoft - Quittner, Slatalla (amazon.com/Speeding-Net-Netscape-Challenged-Mi…)
• Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs - Kocienda (amazon.com/Creative-Selection-Inside-Apples-Pr…)
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