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My Books
Mastering Cloud Engineering: Strategies and Best Practices for Building and Managing Cloud Infrastructure
2022A 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
2022Stories 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