In an Oxide and Friends tradition, Bryan and Adam invite the community to share book recommendations.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers on included Steve Klabnik, Tom Lyon, Ian Grunert, Owen Anderson, phillipov, makowski, and saethlin. (Did we miss your name and/or get it wrong? Drop a PR!)Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Elon Jet
High Noon: The Inside Story of Scott McNealy and the Rise of Sun Microsystems by Southwick, Karen
Making PCR: A Story of Biotechnology by Paul Rabinow
Sun Labs vs. SunSoft Water Fight 1992
Cyberville: Clicks, Culture, and the Creation of an Online Town Hardcover by Stacy Horn
Built to Fail: The Inside Story of Blockbuster's Inevitable Bust Kindle Edition by Alan Payne
A History of Silicon Valley - Vol 1: The 20th Century Paperback by Piero Scaruffi
H-E-B
Moby Dick by Herman Melville (Arion Press)
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future Hardcover by Jill Lepore
UNIVAC and the 1952 Presidential Election
NPR: The Night A Computer Predicted The Next President
Doom Guy: Life in First Person by John Romero
From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia Got Compulsory Voting by Judith Brett
Bryan had a reading list for his wedding?! (his wife confirms)
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
Harp in the South by Ruth Park
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
Death of the Lucky Country by Donald Horne
30 Days in Sydney by Peter Carey
Leviathan by John Birmingham


The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding by Robert Hughes
Barbarians Led by Bill Gates by Jennifer Edstrom and, Marlin Eller
Murray Sargent's account of how his Scroll Screen Tracer got Windows to work in protected mode
Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure by Jerry Kaplan
DeviceScript
Washington: A Life by Chernow
California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and What It Means for America's Power Grid
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
Acts of the Apostles: Mind over Matter: Volume Blue by John F.X. Sundman
Thunder Below!: The USS Barb Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II by Eugene B. Fluckey
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution by Gregory Zuckerman
The Predictors: How a Band of Maverick Physicists Used Chaos Theory to Trade Their Way to a Fortune on Wall Street by Thomas A. Bass
The Eudaemonic Pie: The Bizarre True Story of How a Band of Physicists and Computer Wizards Took On Las Vegas by Thomas A Bass
Some of the other books mentioned in the Discord channel:
Herr aller Dinge/Lord of All Things by Andreas Eschbach
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
The Sciences of the Artificial by Herbert A. Simon
California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and What It Means for America's Power Grid by Katherine Blunt
The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution Hardcover by Gregory Zuckerman
The Predictors: How a Band of Maverick Physicists Used Chaos Theory to Trade Their Way to a Fortune on Wall Street by Thomas A. Bass
The Eudaemonic Pie: The Bizarre True Story of How a Band of Physicists and Computer Wizards Took On Las Vegas by Thomas A Bass
Models.Behaving.Badly.: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life by Emanuel Derman
It's a Nonlinear World by Richard H. Enns
Not technically books, but suggested reading nonetheless by folks in Discord:
The Night A Computer Predicted The Next President by Steve Henn, NPR
How a brilliant debugger (Scroll Screen Tracer by Murray Sargent) turned Windows OS into the IBM OS/2 crusher and gave Micro