Books in the Box VI

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!