Library of 70 recomendations. Included are books that I have completed in their entirety, or have interacted with in a memorable way. Both book title and author content are hyperlinks, triggering a respective search (in a new browser window). Featured topics: network insecurity, the law and hacking, viruses, democratic national convention, paris hilton, t-mobile, family dynamics, relationships, religion, desire.

a

science fiction

"agency"
by william gibson

Additional comment: parallel timelines. an ai protagonist. note: some slang relative to london/uk might be lost in translation for the american reader.

algorithms

data structures

computer science

"a programmer's guide to computer science, vol. i"
by william springer

Additional comment: keep a copy bound to the desk.

alternative societies

science fiction

nature technology

tribal culture

"adulthood rites"
by octavia e. butler

Additional comment: a different dimension of sci-fi.

marketing

"alchemy"
by rory sutherland

Additional comment: re-reading for my own marketing needs.

b

global economics

china

industrialism

"blockchain chicken farm"
by xiaowei wang

Additional comment: pleasing that this read was more of a supply chain and culture investigation than crypto hype.

global politics

saudi arabia

investigative journalism

"blood and oil"
by bradley hope, justin scheck

Additional comment: read if interested in world building.

afro-futurism

culture guide

"black futures"
by kimberly drew, jenna worthman

Additional comment: the anthology you didn't know you needed :).

science history

inventors

technological development

"black pioneers of science invention"
by louis harper

Additional comment: know who automated shoe sole process. and much more.

c

software

computer programming culture

programmers

"coders"
by clive thompson

Additional comment: coding culture and literacy from a programmer's perspective.

design

"citizen first, designer second"
by rejance dal bello

Additional comment: expanded my outlook on design as a civic service.

global politics

covert ops

"confessions of an economic hitman"
by john perkins

Additional comment: cannot confirm or deny contents of this book.

creative ability

locating a niche

consistency

"creative quest"
by questlove?

Additional comment: finding the right audience is a key concept.

design

directory

"cyber-feminism index"
by mindy seu

Additional comment: use the companion website for hyperlinks.

computer science

technical interviews

"cracking the coding interview"
by gayle laakmann mcdowell

Additional comment: great for technical interview prep.

d

chemistry

climate change as a political agenda

nobel peace prize

"dancing naked in the mind field"
by kary mullins

Additional comment: the section on climate change being propaganda is interesting.

user interface design

"design and digital interfaces"
by john fass, tobias revell, benjamin stopher, eva verhoeven

Additional comment: the section on dark patterns is powerful.

e

tesla

spacex

twitter

engineering

business management

entrepreneurship

"elon musk"
by walter issacson

Additional comment: people hate him, but great business insights revealed here — like how to avoid cost-plus, negotiation via intimate knowledge of every line item.

engineering

"elon musk"
by ashley vance

Additional comment: in hindsight, feels like the prequel to walter issacson's version.

futurism

labor technology

work culture

"economic science fictions"
by william davies

Additional comment: frames the workplace of the future as a surveillance-heavy reality.

architecture

design manual

"elements of architecture"
by rem koolhaas

Additional comment: a tomb of a book. architecture a-z.

embedded computing

technology

ethics

"embodied computing"
by isabel pedersen, andrew iliadis

Additional comment: emerging tech for the approaching singularity.

f

geopolitics

up-code

down-code

symbol manipulation

worms

phishing attacks

system vulnerability

network insecurity

the law and hacking

viruses

democratic national convention

paris hilton

t-mobile

"fancy bear goes phishing"
by scott j. shapiro

Additional comment: become familiar with 'upcode.' covers hacking from the individual, state, and federal levels. also, details the dnc hack.

modern monopolies

politics

logistics

"fulfillment"
by alec macgallis

Additional comment: read to gain awareness to the political and social realities of amazon being so embedded.

additive manufacturing

"fabricated"
by hod lipson, melba kurman

Additional comment: guidebook on 3-d printing, additive manufacturing opportunities.

g

algorithms

data structures

"grokking algorithms"
by aditya bhargava

Additional comment: intro to, implementation of the core 'cs' algorithms. all in python.

graphic design

"geometry of design"
by kimberly elam

Additional comment: forced me to re-think precision. opened up new grid structures.

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computational thinking

"how to speak machine"
by john maeda

Additional comment: excellent intro to computation without being overtly technical.

business

start-ups

economic planning

"how to f*ck up your startup"
by kim hvidkjaer

Additional comment: i tend to stay away from this genre. however, practical business insights were gained from this book.

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memoir

sex work

adult entertainment

erotic labor

being asian in america

"insatiable"
by asa akira

Additional comment: more pornography of life than sex.

"information doesn't want to be free"
by cory doctorow

Additional comment: read if interested the information economy.

j

JavaScript

programming

"javascript for data science"
by maya gans, toby hodges, greg wilson

Additional comment: easy-to-read. covers js methods and arrow-functions. focus is on data manipulation.

python

programming

"job ready python"
by haythem balti

Additional comment: you build a burger shop at the end to tie everything together.

JavaScript

oscillators

programming

audio interfaces

"javascript for sound artists"
by william turner

Additional comment: web audio api and oscillator building. the internet needs more sound.

k

l

america in the 1900s

homesteading

small-town dynamics

ethic dynamics

survival

"lone women"
by victor lavalle

Additional comment: the history of homesteading told through the lens of rugged women, unfolds as a thriller. also, i am on pace to read all of lavalle.

pop culture

relationships

touring

music business

"let love rule"
by lenny kravitz

Additional comment: how-to grow up celebrity.

m

science fiction

enhanced humans

technology

class division

"mardock scramble"
by tow ubakata

Additional comment: if i had a favorite book, this would be it. read the book. the anime film is not as sci-fi as the book.

n

graphic design

"now try something weirder"
by micheal johnson

Additional comment: pithy yet insightful to achieving more robust outcomes.

internet media art

new media

counterculture

"new media art"
by mark tribe, reena jana

Additional comment: inspiring read.

o

management

"on managing yourself volume 2"
by harvard business review

Additional comment: more ready-to-use exercises than theory!.

p

product design

user experience

"product design for the web"
by randy hunt

Additional comment: read for very implementable design principles.

q

r

programmatic bias

systemic bias

cultural inequality

"race after technology"
by ruha benjamin

Additional comment: get a copy if you care about moore's law applied to bias.

technology

"real feelings"
by christoph merian verlag

Additional comment: amazing depiction(s) of art-meets-tech.

s

metaverse

corporation state

economic segregation

advanced technology

religious technology

development of language

ethnic tension

"snow crash"
by neal stephenson

Additional comment: i hope more people read this.

product design

entrepreneurship

spirituality

"steve jobs"
by walter isaacson

Additional comment: the 'genius' is in the pursuit, not the tech skills.

technology

software entrepreneurship

work culture

"sex, drugs and rocking code"
by paul carter

Additional comment: anonymous. love the entrepreneurship angles in this one.

quantum internet

"schrödinger's web"
by jonathan p. dowling

Additional comment: there is something here that i need to go back and re-engage with.

product design

hardware production

manufacturing

"schiit happened"
by jason stoodard, mike moffat

Additional comment: a small company with a big vision. also: making, then delivering physical products, is challenging.

advertising

ad pricing

ad markets

"subprime attention crisis"
by tim hwang

Additional comment: advertising beyond the content. how the market for clicks works, where it is broken.

t

family dynamics

relationships

religion

desire

gender

"the secret lives of church ladies"
by deesha philyaw

Additional comment: read in a single sitting.

mathematics

"trigonometry self-taught"
by peter selby

Additional comment: great to brush up on trig fundamentals. and simple to read for a math text.

financial liberation

bitcoin

"the internet of money"
by andreas antonopoulos

Additional comment: hype-free. focused on the financial practicality of bitcoin.

letter-forms

typography manual

design

"the thames & hudson manual of typography"
by ruari mclean

Additional comment: for type nerds.

computing history

ibm

wwii

apartheid

workplace inequality

history of technology

techno-politics

"think black"
by clyde ford

Additional comment: on my read twice list!.

music entrepreneurship

rap culture

negotiation

"the art and science of respect"
by james prince

Additional comment: lessons on getting to your roots, embracing regional uniqueness.

spirituality

music production

entertainment media

"the tao of the wu"
by rza

Additional comment: classic wu-tang from the group's architect.

autism

family dynamics

divorce

"the curious case of the dog in the night time"
by mark haddon

Additional comment: you will feel warm during (and after) reading.

ethereum

"the infinite machine"
by camila russo

Additional comment: the backstory of web3, how money divides friends.

internet

dark web

forum culture

"the dark net"
by jamie bartlett

Additional comment: examines weird pockets of the internet. sparked ideas for making the dark web a more illuminated destination.

pop culture

politics

current-ish events

"the nineties"
by chuck klosterman

Additional comment: the granularity of nostalgia, the 90s.

business

"the nine types of leader"
by james ashton

Additional comment: alpha-human-founder.

design

"the laws of simplicity"
by john maeda

Additional comment: re-read periodically. the dots will grow on you.

business

empathy

long-term planning

"twelve and a half"
by gary vaynerchuk

Additional comment: business skills without the blubber, boardroom stuffiness.

technology

incubators

relationships

"the startup wife"
by tahmima anam

Additional comment: loved every page.

art

"telepathy contact"
by demtrio paparoni

Additional comment: required for the modern art collection.

developer operations

"the unicorn project"
by gene kim

Additional comment: legacy code and technical debt woes.

technology

"the singularity"
by ray kurzweil

Additional comment: still reading. obtuse in some parts.

design

professional development

user experience

design education

"the black experience in design"
by anne berry, kareem collie, penina acayo laker, lesley-ann noel, jennifer rittner, kelly walters

Additional comment: the essays are valuable.

u

v

w

internet entrepreneurship, net neutrality

reddit

"without their permission"
by alexis ohanian

Additional comment: helped me see social media companies as more than code and users.

internet

social science

"wasting time on the internet"
by kenneth goldsmith

Additional comment: challenges the activity of being online.

science fiction

electronic waste

embedded technology

class struggle

"waste tide"
by chen qiufan

Additional comment: opened my mind to electronic waste, converting salvage electronics into new machines.

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