Tim O’ReillyRecommended Books

“Honorable mention to a few other books I really enjoyed this year: Winners Take All, by Anand Giridharadas; Automating Inequality, by Virginia Eubanks; Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero, by James Romm; In the Garden of Beasts, by Erik Larsen; AI Superpowers, by KaiFu Lee; Antarctica, by Kim Stanley Robinson, and its truelife counterpart, Mawson's Will, by Lennard Bickel.”

“Almost every economist learned from Intermediate Microeconomics.”

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“A utopian novel written in the 1930s, about an imaginary country where Technology, has not yet hastened the pace of life, and where people find time to nurture relationships and the land they live on. Also a novel of the long view. My first Sun workstation was named Isla, and the dream of living on the land was a part of my move to Sebastopol. Physical labor is a wonderful antidote to the life of the mind.”

“Microsoft also has a chief economist. The teams interact. He trained many people at Berkeley in the software industry. Hal's book Information Rules is foundational. His work on network effects was seminal. This lecture by Hal is one of my favorites.”

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“A time machine into how people felt about the world in 1915.”

“I discovered this series of six difficult, complex historical novels about a character roving the world at the turn of the seventeenth century as my company was passing the critical 50person inflection point. Lymond is a brilliant leader who isn't afraid of the opprobrium of his peershe does the right thing, seeing further than those around him. He was a hero I aspired to emulate. The books are also just darn coolthe amount of historical scholarship packed into these stories is truly remarkable.”