Here's some stuff I recommend in no particular order.
Bold items are things I consider strong personal influences.
Books (non-fiction):
- The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
- Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
- Hard Landing: The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos
- On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)
- The Computer and the Brain
- What is Life?
- Chip War: The Quest to Dominate the World's Most Critical Technology
- The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
- The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy - What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny
- The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millenium
- The Vital Question
- Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
Books (fiction):
- Permutation City
- The Sympathizer
- The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
- Liveship Traders
- Broken Earth
- Bobiverse
- Seveneves
- The Razor's Edge
- Nexus Trilogy
- A Fire Upon The Deep
- The Remains of the Day
- World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
- Remembrance of Earth's Past
Blogs/newsletters:
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