@borrowedshelves
the complete Stripe Press catalog
20 items
- 01Built to Grow - Stephanie Friedman
- 02Poor Charlie's Almanack - edited by Peter D. Kaufman
- 03Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One - Stewart Brand
- 路路17 more entries
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Patrick Collison's bookshelf, the ones marked green
he colors his site green for 'particularly great,' not the whole shelf. runs alphabetically there, so it does here too
01
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction - Christopher Alexander
architecture book that shows up on every 'engineers read this' list now. earned it
02
Age of Ambition - Evan Osnos
03
Anthropic Bias - Nick Bostrom
Bostrom's actual academic work, not the AI doom book people assume from the title
04
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters - Jason Stearns
05
Democracy in America (abridged) - Alexis de Tocqueville
the abridged edition, so even he didn't want the full two volumes
06
Hard Landing - Thomas Petzinger Jr.
07
If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... Where Is Everybody? - Stephen Webb
solutions to the fermi paradox, basically astrobiology homework
08
Metamagical Themas - Douglas Hofstadter
09
The Mind-Body Problem - Rebecca Goldstein
a novel, not a philosophy textbook, despite what the title implies
10
Mindstorms - Seymour Papert
Papert on kids and computers, from 1980. (sourced) still assigned in some CS ed courses
11
Nixon Agonistes - Garry Wills
12
Out of Mao's Shadow - Philip P. Pan
13
Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming - Peter Norvig
the Lisp AI book. he's named it before as one of the handful that shaped how he thinks about code
14
Poor Charlie's Almanack - Charles T. Munger and Peter Kaufman
Munger's own words, more or less. dense in a good way
15
Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens - K.C. Cole
16
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering - Richard Hamming
17
The Beginning of Infinity - David Deutsch
Deutsch's big optimism book. the one people recommend right after finishing this one
18
The Dream Machine - M. Mitchell Waldrop
19
The Paris Review Interviews, I - edited by Philip Gourevitch
20
The Rise and Fall of American Growth - Robert J. Gordon
an economic history doorstop, not a quick read