| Why Information Grows - Cesar Hidalgo (https://books.google.com/books?id=J88_CQAAQBAJ)
Best book I've read in recent memory. Changed my understanding of the world and (maybe) our place in it. The Information - James Gleick (https://books.google.com/books?id=7ztdygAACAAJ)
All developers having anything to do with data should read this or at least be familiar with the concepts it covers. Chaos - James Gleick (https://books.google.com/books?id=OoLNzl4XpPUC)
A good follow-up to "The Information" Scale - Geoffrey West (https://books.google.com/books?id=bJPZDAAAQBAJ)
Covers the kind of fundamentals of science everyone should understand. Life 3.0 - Max Tegmark (https://books.google.com/books?id=2hIcDgAAQBAJ)
The Master Algorithm - Pedro Domingos (https://books.google.com/books?id=CPgqCgAAQBAJ)
These two go nicely together The Death of Expertise - Thomas M. Nichols (https://books.google.com/books?id=x3TYDQAAQBAJ)
Maybe the thing that brings about the downfall of society as we know it Fantasyland - Kurt Andersen (https://books.google.com/books?id=aaX4DAAAQBAJ)
A fun, engaging American history - whether the theory behind it is accurate or not, it is still enlightening. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (https://books.google.com/books?id=niDNtZoYsAUC)
A painful re-reading but hard not to conclude that Huxley had it way more directionally right than Orwell or any other future fiction authors. Amusing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman (https://books.google.com/books?id=oup6iagfox8C)
Though largely about media in the 80's, it is even more relevant today. World Without Mind - Franklin Foer (https://books.google.com/books?id=Q8gPDgAAQBAJ)
Too easy to pick on big tech this year but that doesn't mean most of this book isn't on the nose. |