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 (bsky.app/profile/bcantrill.bsky.social) and Adam Leventhal (bsky.app/profile/ahl.bsky.social), we were joined by some guests noted below:
Previously, on Oxide and Friends:
• OxF s05e06 - A Half‑Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup (oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/a-hal…)
• OxF s05e26 - Technological Revolutions with Jerry Neumann (oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/techn…)
• OxF s04e03 - Fork in the Road for Terraform (oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/fork-…)
• OxF s01e16 - The Books in the Box (oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-b…)
• OxF s02e18 - Books in the Box Redux (oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/book-…)
• OxF s03e22 - Books in the Box III (oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/books…)
• OxF s04e28 - Books in the Box IV (oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/books…)
Other Notes:
• Princeton Review: Happiest Students (princetonreview.com/college-rankings/?rankings…)
• UMass Dining Named Best Campus Food by The Princeton Review (umass.edu/news/article/umass-dining-named-best…)
• CHM Oral Histories (computerhistory.org/oral-histories)
• Night Rider (and K.I.T.T.) (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Rider_(1982_TV_se…))
From Bryan and Adam (and others)
• The Mouse Driver Chronicles (goodreads.com/book/show/964545.The_MouseDriver…)
• Fumbling the Future (isbnsearch.org/isbn/9781583482667)
• Slingshot (isbnsearch.org/isbn/9781608324446)
• Chip War (isbnsearch.org/isbn/9781668012055)
• Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital (isbnsearch.org/isbn/9781843763314) @bcantrill (economics book recommendation)
• Snow Crash (isbnsearch.org/isbn/9780553898194) (another Neal Stephenson book)
• The Big Short (isbnsearch.org/isbn/9780393338829)
• Reinventing The Wheel (isbnsearch.org/isbn/9780060761387)
• Eccentric Orbits (isbnsearch.org/isbn/9780802192820) (recommended by listener)
• Language Machines Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism (isbnsearch.org/isbn/9781517919320) (recommended by listener)
• Molly White's **review ** of Read Write Own (citationneeded.news/review-read-write-own-by-c…)
• Careless People (isbnsearch.org/isbn/9781035065929)
• NOT A RECOMMENDATION If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies (isbnsearch.org/isbn/9781847928931) (If you are Molly White, please destroy this for us!)
• Surreal Numbers by Knuth (isbnsearch.org/isbn/9780201038125) (recommended by listeners)
From Oliver Herman
• Open Circuits (isbnsearch.org/isbn/9781718502345)
• Systems Performance (isbnsearch.org/isbn/9780136820154)
• Why We're Getting Poorer (isbnsearch.org/isbn/9780008637965)
• Termination Shock (isbnsearch.org/isbn/9780063028074)
From Tom Lyon
• From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog (isbnsearch.org/isbn/9780262250276)• See also Systems We Love: Life of an Airline Flight (youtube.com/watch?v=8_t41xvPp1w)

• The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts (isbnsearch.org/isbn/9780375700132)
• The NVIDIA Way (isbnsearch.org/isbn/9781324086710)
From Dan McDonald
• Inventing the Renaissance (isbnsearch.org/isbn/9780226837970)
• Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation (isbnsearch.org/isbn/9781250362575)
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