Books in the Box V
Oxide and Friends
Outro
Hosts thank guests and listeners, recap book highlights, and sign off with upcoming episode dates and community notes.
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
From Tom Lyon
From Dan McDonald
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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