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5 books

Books that are secretly about making you think about them all the time

Moby Dick
Infinite Jest
The Name of the Wind
Piranesi
Anathem

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7 books

Business Disaster Books

American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal
Barbarians at the Gate
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Flash Boys
All the Rave
Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker

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10 books

Favorite books of all time

Excession
The Goldfinch
The Crow Road
Busy Doing Nothing
Piranesi
American Kingpin
Labyrinths

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31 books

Iain Banks

Consider Phlebas
The Player of Games
Use of Weapons
The State of the Art
Excession
Matter
Transition

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7 books

Leadership

Resilient Management
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
High Output Management
A Sense of Urgency

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6 books

On Deck

What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful
The Well of Ascension
A Completely Different Game
Sir Lewis
Chasing Shadows
The New Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen

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0 books

Owned

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1 book

Read so long ago that I don’t remember any of it

The Golden Compass

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4 books

Semiconductor industry

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
Fundamentals of Semiconductor Manufacturing and Process Control
Open Circuits
The Hardware Hacker

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3 books

Virginia history

Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County: A Family, a Virginia Town, a Civil Rights Battle
Richmond's Unhealed History
Burr

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3 books

Weekend expertise

Designing Electronics That Work
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

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7 books

Well-rounded programming

Perl 6 at a Glance
Ideas That Created the Future
Starting FORTH
A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics
You Don't Know JS
Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions
100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them