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Someone wanted my reading list of nonfiction "interesting books" so here you go. 🧵

Bloom - Eccentric Orbits
Blum - The Poison Squad
Clark - Ignition!
Dear - The Friendly Orange Glow
Gee - A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth
Gertner - The Idea Factory
Haase - Androids
Haddad - Freewaytopia
Hafner and Lyon - Where Wizards Stay up Late
Hiltzik - Dealers of Lightning
Horowitz - Being a Dog
Jonnes - Empires of Light
Kidder - Soul of a New Machine
Kurson - Shadow Divers

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Kushner - Masters of Doom
Lane - The Vital Question
Lapsley - Exploding the Phone
LeVay - When Science Goes Wrong
Levy - Hackers
Mahaffey - Atomic Accidents
Malone - Bill and Dave
Martinez - Chaos Monkeys
Mullane - Riding Rockets
Murray - The Supermen
Nelson - Rocket Men
Newitz - Four Lost Cities
Pollan - The Omnivore's Dilemma
Rich - Skunkworks
Riordan and Hoddeson - Crystal Fire
Sacks - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

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Schlosser - Command and Control
Schwartz - The Last Lone Inventor
Standage - The Victorian Internet
Standage - The Neptune File
Standiford - Water to the Angels
Stoll - The Cuckoo's Egg
Wozniak - iWoz

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and as a bonus, "advanced mode" reading (less accessible to the lay person, generally very technical or otherwise difficult to read and understand)

Christensen - The Innovator's Dilemma
Davis - City of Quartz
Davis - Ecology of Fear
Harwood - The Interface: IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945–1976
Hughes - Networks of Power
Pugh, Johnson, and Palmer - IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems

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Simon Frankau

@tubetime There were 3 or 4 of those that I read and they were... fine, not outstanding. OTOH, I really, really enjoyed the Stoll (although it's probably not very educational).

Mind you, reading that was over 25 years ago, so maybe things have changed, but I just remember it being such a lot of fun. I should probably re-read.

7 August at 1:52 | Open on mastodon.xyz
Obot 50549535

@tubetime
Soul of a New Machine, that's a blast from the past. Computers look very different now.

7 August at 1:55 | Open on left-tusk.com
J. Peterson

@tubetime Definitely add the epic Shift Happens from @mwichary

And of course, your Open Circuits!

7 August at 3:35 | Open on mastodon.social
Farce Majeure

@tubetime Oh, you should definitely read John Clark's "Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants".

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@vathpela i already have, i just forgot to add it to the list.

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