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 and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Nick Gideo, Josh, Ian Grunert, Tom Lyon, Zander, and Oliver Herman.

Tomax and Xamot

Recommendations:

Into the Raging Sea - Slade
The Making of Prince of Persia - Jordan Mechner
The Big Score - Malone
- CHM: Oral History of Hector Ruiz
- AMD Founder Jerry Sanders Rare Interview (video)
Chip War - Miller
- CHM: Morris Chang, in conversation with Jen-Hsun Huang (video)
- Acquired: TSMC (audio)
Creativity Inc. - Catmull and Wallace
Hardcore Software - Sinofsky
- OxF: The Showstopper Show
Exploding the Phone - Lapsley
The Cuckoo's Egg - Stoll
Inside the Hidden World of Elevator Phone Phreaking
The Last Bookstore
The MouseDriver Chronicles - Lusk, Harrison
Hatching Twitter - Bilton
Character Limit - Conger, Mac
The Maniac - Labatut
Shift Happens - Wichary
The Last Philosopher in Texas - Chacon
The Idea Factory - Gertner
Observability Engineering - Majors, Fong-Jones, Miranda
Red Cloud at Dawn - Gordin
Biohazard - Alibek
More Money than God - Mallaby
Remembered Prisoners of a Forgotten War - Carlson
IBM and the Holocaust - Black
- Bryan's blog on the topic
DEC is Dead, Long Live DEC - Schein, DeLisi, Kampas, Sonduck
- OxF: The Rise and Fall of DEC

Bonus recommendations from chat

Not the End of the World - Ritchie
The Man Who Broke Capitalism - Gelles
Children of Time (series) - Tchaikovsky
The Murderbot Diaries (series) - Wells
Organizational Behavior Real Research for Real Managers - Pearce
Hacking: The Art of Exploitation - Erickson
Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power Hardcover - Ryback
Successful Aging - Levitin (felt like maybe a dig at Adam and Bryan?)
Speeding the Net: The Inside Story of Netscape and How It Challenged Microsoft - Quittner, Slatalla
Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs - Kocienda

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