Books on my (eventual) reading list

• The Lifecycle of Software Objects
• Countdown to Zero Day
• The Master Switch
• The Culture Books by Banks
• The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age;
• The case for mars Zubrin
• The code breakers
• The Long Earth books
• The carpet maker
• Dealers of Lightning
• Endurance (Antarctic journey)
• Packing for mars
• Dead in the Water — Matthew Campbell
• The Hard Sell
• The Puzzler (maybe a book for Hannah, alongside some puzzles)

Read in 2025

• a philosophy of software design — John k. Ousterhout; 7/10; good book, enjoyed it. Hedges itself a lot (bc it’s hard to be overly dogmatic about philosophy of design without properly acknowledging other solid contrasting philosophies) but learned a lot from it.
• The art and science of doing engineering — Hammond; 6/10; has great stories and intuitions that can be developed while reading it. But it’s outdated (from 1990) and reads like an older person misremembering their true experiences in a way that makes their experience seem more grandiose. Lots of masturbatory stories of his great influence on everyone around him, which is a little “eye rolls”