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My Books

Mastering Cloud Engineering: Strategies and Best Practices for Building and Managing Cloud Infrastructure

2022

A comprehensive guide to cloud architecture, covering AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, and everything you need to build production-grade infrastructure.

From Strangers to Founders: How Immigrants Helped Build and Shape America

2022

Stories of immigrant founders who shaped American industry, technology, and culture. A celebration of the entrepreneurial immigrant spirit.

Reading List

Books That Shaped My Thinking

Tech, power, AI, and the people who build (and break) things. These are the books I recommend to anyone working in technology.

Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the world's most coveted microchip

The Thinking Machine

Chip Chase

The early days of the computer

The Soul of a New Machine

Tracy Kidder

A trip into the mirror world

Doppelganger

Naomi Klein

An icon

Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson

Cancel culture

So You've Been Publicly Shamed

Jon Ronson

How Google thinks, works, and shapes our lives

In the Plex

Steven Levy

How to seize the means of computation

The Internet Con

Cory Doctorow

Secrets and lies in a Silicon Valley startup

Bad Blood

John Carreyrou

How AI works and why it's making the world weirder

You Look Like a Thing and I Love You

Janelle Shane

A Silicon Valley story

The New New Thing

Michael Lewis

AI, ChatGPT, and the race that will change the world

Supremacy

Parmy Olson

Silicon Valley and the remaking of America

The Code

Margaret O'Mara

Inside Facebook's battle for domination

An Ugly Truth

Sheera Frenkel & Cecilia Kang

How the fringe conquered the mainstream

Meme Wars

Joan Donovan et al.

The epic rise and fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork

Billion Dollar Loser

Reeves Wiedeman

A life in computer games

Sid Meier's Memoir!

Sid Meier

A true story of money, power, friendship, and betrayal

Hatching Twitter

Nick Bilton

The inside story of Instagram

No Filter

Sarah Frier

Abolitionist tools for the new Jim Code

Race After Technology

Ruha Benjamin

Jeff Bezos and the invention of a global empire

Amazon Unbound

Brad Stone

The inside story of the South Korean giant that set out to beat Apple

Samsung Rising

Geoffrey Cain

How AI and emerging technologies are reinventing misogyny

The New Age of Sexism

Jude Wanga

Rethinking who needs improvement

Against Technoableism

Ashley Shew

Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future

Elon Musk

Ashlee Vance

The global hunt for the crime lords of cryptocurrency

Tracers in the Dark

Andy Greenberg