Episode Details

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 Sarg