The Books in the Box

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: September 27th, 2021

The Books in the Box

We’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it’s not (yet?) a feature of Twitter Spaces, we have been recording them all; here is the recording for our Twitter Space for September 27th, 2021.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers on September 27th included Tom Lyon, Dan Cross, Antranig Vartanian Simeon Miteff Matt Campbell, Jeremy Tanner, Joshua Clulow, Ian, Tim Burnham, and Nathaniel Reindl. (Did we miss your name and/or get it wrong? Drop a PR!)

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

• Not recommended :-( • Dave Hitz and Pat Walsh (2008) How to Castrate a Bull • book • Peter Thiel (2014) Zero to One • book • [@2:45](https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk?t=165) David Jacques Gerber (2015) The Inventor’s Dilemma: The Remarkable Life of H. Joseph Gerber • book • [@7:21](https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk?t=441) Sidney Dekker (2011) Drift into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems • book • [@13:08](https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk?t=788) Robert Buderi (1996) The Invention that Changed the World: The Story of Radar from War to Peace • book • MIT Rad Lab Series info • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance wiki • Richard Rhodes (1995) Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb • book • Michael Riordan and Lillian Hoddeson (1997) Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age • book • Craig Canine (1995) Dream Reaper: The Story of an Old-Fashioned Inventor in the High-Tech, High-Stakes World of Modern Agriculture • book • David Fisher and Marshall Fisher (1996) Tube: The Invention of Television • book • Michael Hiltzik (2015) Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex • book • [@18:05](https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk?t=1085) Ben Rich and Leo Janos (1994) Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed • book • Network Software Environment Lockheed SR-71 • on display at the Sea, Air and Space Museum • in NYC. • [@26:52](https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk?t=1612) Brian Dear (2017) The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the Rise of Cyberculture • book • [@30:15](https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk?t=1815) Randall Stross (1993) Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing • book • [@32:21](https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk?t=1941) Christophe Lécuyer and David C. Brock (2010) Makers of the Microchip: A Documentary History of Fairchild Semiconductor • book • [@33:06](https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk?t=1986) Lamont Wood (2012) Datapoint: The Lost Story of the Texans Who Invented the Personal Computer Revolution • book • Charles Kenney (1992) Riding the Runaway Horse: The Rise and Decline of Wang Laboratories • book • Tom’s tweet • [@34:06](https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk?t=2046) Bryan’s Lost Box of Books! • Edgar H. Schein et al (2003) DEC is Dead, Long Live DEC: The Lasting Legacy of Digital Equipment Corporation • book • [@36:56](https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk?t=2216) Alan Payne (2021) Built to Fail: The Inside Story of Blockbuster’s Inevitable Bust • book • Videotape format war wiki • Hackers (1995) movie • . Watch the trailer • ~2mins • Steven Levy (1984) Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution • book • [@42:32](https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk?t=2552) Paul Halmos (1985) I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography • book • Paul Hoffman (1998) The Man Who Loved Only Numbers • about Paul Erdős book • 1981 text adventure game for the Apple II by Sierra On-Line, “Softporn Adventure” ( wiki • ) • [@49:16](https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk?t=2956) Douglas Engelbart The Mother of All Demos • wiki • John Markoff (2005) What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry • book • Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon (1998) Where Wizards Stay Up Late • book • 1972 Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing • documentary • ~26mins ( wiki • ) included big names like Corbató, Licklider and Bob Kahn. • Gordon Moore (1965) Cramming more components onto integrated circuits • paper • and Moore’s Law wiki • [@52:3...