Readings
The three that have influenced me the most:
- “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox”
- Where Wizards Stay Up Late
- Speaker for the Dead
Books
Vengeance, Let My People Go Surfing, The Wheel of Time, The Soul of a New Machine, The Mission of the University, 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, 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
“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
“Coding Machines”, “When the Culture War Comes for the Kids”, “How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul”, When Einstein Walked with Gödel, “My President Was Black”, The Best American Political Writing 2002,
TV & Movies
The Americans, Battlestar Galactica, The Wire, Bosch, Gilmore Girls
Meditations
Optimism is a habit.
Do not ascribe to malice that which can be explained by folly.
Grant me serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can,
and wisdom to know the difference.