A hugely incomplete list of the books I’ve read lately.
Reading
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Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs (Ken Kocienda)
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Mythos (Stephen Fry)
Read
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BUILD: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making (Tony Fadell)
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The Soul of a New Machine (Tracy Kidder)
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Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed (Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos)
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Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age (Michael Hiltzik)
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Category Theory in Context (Emily Riehl)
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Seven Sketches in Compositionality (Brendan Fong, David Spivak)
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The Book of Yokai (Michael Dylan Foster)
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The Hidden Game of Baseball: A Revolutionary Approach to Baseball and Its Statistics (David Reuther, John Thorn, and Pete Palmer)
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The Little MLer (Matthias Felleisen)
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The Art of Logic (Eugenia Cheng)
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Read Real Japanese Essays: Contemporary Writings by Popular Authors (Janet Ashby)
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Read Real Japanese Fiction: Short Stories by Contemporary Writers (Michael Emmerich)
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
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Fundamentals of Software Architecture (Mark Richards, Neal Ford)
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Software Foundations
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Category Theory: A Gentle Introduction (Peter Smith)
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Type Theory and Functional Programming (Simon Thompson)
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The Unconsoled (Kazuo Ishiguro)
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How to Bake Pi (Eugenia Cheng)
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Breaking into Japanese Literature: Seven Modern Classics in Parallel Text (Giles Murray)
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The Book of General Ignorance (John Mitchinson, John Lloyd)
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Whistlestop (John Dickerson)
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Believer: My Forty Years in Politics (David Axelrod)
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Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style (W. David Marx)
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Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes, Edith Grossman)
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Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Richard Feynman)
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Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet (Katie Hafner)
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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation (Jon Gertner)
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Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages (Federico Biancuzzi)
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Land of Lisp (Conrad Barski)
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American Gods (Neil Gaiman)
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Coders at Work (Peter Seibel)
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1Q84 (Murakami)
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Kafka on the Shore (Murakami)
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Murakami)