Readings

The three that have influenced me the most:

• “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox”
• Where Wizards Stay Up Late
• Speaker for the Dead

Books

Circe, Consequences (stories), American Rust, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Creativity Inc., Drugs and Drug Policy, How Migration Really Works, Absolutely American, Code Girls, Close to the Machine, The Billionaire Who Wasn’t, Merchants of Doubt, The Goldfinch, She Said, Medium Raw, Habeous Data, Citizen Protectors, Hillbilly Elegy, Vengeance, Let My People Go Surfing, The Wheel of Time, The Soul of a New Machine, The Mission of the University, All the Light we Cannot See, Ghost Work, The Attention Merchants, Permanent Record, The Anatomy of a Moment, System Error, The Sunset Route, The Cuckoo’s Egg, A Promised Land, The Entrepreneurial State, Making Climate Policy Work, Milkman, Terrorism: How to Respond, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, The Price of Admission, How Universities Work, Bad Blood, Logicomics, The Curse of Bigness, Unsafe at Any Speed, The Bluest Eye, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Iliad, Republic, Foe, Gödel’s Proof, Where Wizards Stay Up Late, Crystal Fire, River Town, The Teacher Wars, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, The Three Body Problem, The Secret History, Dreams from my Father, The Gatekeepers, Bike Battles, The God of Small Things, Speaker for the Dead, Odyssey

Plays

Van Gogh, An Enemy of the People, A Doll’s House

Academic Articles

“Making IP = PSPACE Practical”, “Knowledge and Common Knowledge in a Distributed Environment”, “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox”, “The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work”, “Authoritative Sources in a Hyperlinked Environment”

Essays, Anthologies, News Articles

The Best American Political Writing 2009, “Coding Machines”, “When the Culture War Comes for the Kids”, When Einstein Walked with Gödel, “My President Was Black”, The Best American Political Writing 2002

TV & Miniseries

The Night Manager, Heartland, The Americans, Battlestar Galactica, The Wire, Bosch, Gilmore Girls

Meditations

Optimism is a habit. _{^{–Helen Wolf}}

Do not ascribe to malice that which can be explained by folly.

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference. _{^{–R. Neibuhr}}

The best self and the common good. _{^{–Loomis Chaffee}}

Be kind and be useful. _{^{–N. Nethercote}}