@borrowedshelves
Patrick Collison's bookshelf, the ones marked green
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- 01A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction - Christopher Alexander
- 02Age of Ambition - Evan Osnos
- 03Anthropic Bias - Nick Bostrom
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📚the complete Stripe Press catalog
every book Stripe Press has put out, in the order their own site lists them. working through it, in no particular hurry.
01
Built to Grow - Stephanie Friedman
the newest one on here, about operational scaling
02
Poor Charlie's Almanack - edited by Peter D. Kaufman
Munger's collected talks, assembled with his input, not written by him. the one people finish since it's mostly speeches
03
Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One - Stewart Brand
04
The Origins of Efficiency - Brian Potter
05
The Scaling Era - Dwarkesh Patel with Gavin Leech
oral history format, built out of his podcast interviews on AI
06
Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation - Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber
07
Scaling People - Claire Hughes Johnson
she was an early Stripe exec, basically her internal playbook cleaned up for print
08
Pieces of the Action - Vannevar Bush
09
Where Is My Flying Car? - J. Storrs Hall
half history of failed 20th century tech promises, half argument for why we stopped building
10
The Big Score - Michael S. Malone
11
Scientific Freedom - Donald W. Braben
originally published decades ago, Stripe Press reissued it (sourced from the catalog page, not the original printing)
12
Working in Public - Nadia Eghbal
on open source maintenance. the one I recommend first if someone only reads one
13
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering - Richard W. Hamming
14
The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985-1993 - Jordan Mechner
literally his dev diaries from making the original game, not a business book at all and it's still on this list
15
Get Together - Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh, and Kai Elmer Sotto
16
An Elegant Puzzle - Will Larson
engineering management. still the one I hand to new EMs
17
The Revolt of the Public - Martin Gurri
18
Stubborn Attachments - Tyler Cowen
short. the growth-as-moral-obligation argument, people either love it or think it's cold
19
The Dream Machine - M. Mitchell Waldrop
history of personal computing through Licklider, a brick of a book but worth it
20
High Growth Handbook - Elad Gil
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