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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[1].
In addition to Bryan Cantrill[2] and Adam Leventhal[3],
speakers on September 27th included Tom Lyon[4], Dan Cross
[5], Antranig Vartanian[6] Simeon Miteff[7] Matt Campbell
[8], Jeremy Tanner[9], Joshua Clulow[10], Ian[11], Tim
Burnham[12], and Nathaniel Reindl[13]. (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[14]
* Peter Thiel (2014) Zero to One book[15]
* [@2:45](https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk?t=165) David
Jacques Gerber (2015) The Inventor s Dilemma: The
Remarkable Life of H. Joseph Gerber book[16]
* [@7:21](https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk?t=441) Sidney
Dekker (2011) Drift into Failure: From Hunting Broken
Components to Understanding Complex Systems book[17]
* [@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[18]
* MIT Rad Lab Series info[19]
* Nuclear Magnetic Resonance wiki[20]
* Richard Rhodes (1995) Dark Sun: The Making of the
Hydrogen Bomb book[21]
* Michael Riordan and Lillian Hoddeson (1997)
Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age
book[22]
* Craig Canine (1995) Dream Reaper: The Story of an
Old-Fashioned Inventor in the High-Tech, High-
Stakes World of Modern Agriculture book[23]
* David Fisher and Marshall Fisher (1996) Tube: The
Invention of Television book[24]
* Michael Hiltzik (2015) Big Science: Ernest
Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the
Military-Industrial Complex book[25]
* [@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[26]
* Network Software Environment
* Lockheed SR-71[27] on display at the Sea, Air and
Space Museum[28] 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[29]
* [@30:15](https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk?t=1815) Randall
Stross (1993) Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing book
[30]
* [@32:21](https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk?t=1941)
Christophe L cuyer and David C. Brock (2010) Makers
of the Microchip: A Documentary History of Fairchild
Semiconductor book[31]
* [@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[32]
* Charles Kenney (1992) Riding the Runaway Horse: The
Rise and Decline of Wang Laboratories book[33]
* Tom s tweet[34]
* [@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[35]
* [@36:56](https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk?t=2216) Alan
Payne (2021) Built to Fail: The Inside Story of
Blockbuster s Inevitable Bust book[36]
* Videotape format war wiki[37]
* Hackers (1995) movie[38]. Watch the trailer[39] ~2mins
* Steven Levy (1984) Hackers: Heroes of the Computer
Revolution book[40]
* [@42:32](https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk?t=2552) Paul
Halmos (1985) I Want to be a Mathematician: An
Automathography book[41]
* Paul Hoffman (1998) The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
about Paul Erd s book[42]
* 1981 text adventure game for the Apple II by Sierra
On-Line, Softporn Adventure (wiki[43])
* [@49:16](https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk?t=2956) Douglas
Engelbart The Mother of All Demos wiki[44]
* John Markoff (2005) What the Dormouse Said: How
the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal
Computer Industry book[45]
* Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon (1998) Where Wizards
Stay Up Late book[46]
* 1972 Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource
Sharing documentary[47] ~26mins (wiki[48]) included
big names like Corbat , Licklider and Bob Kahn.
* Gordon Moore (1965) Cramming more components onto
integrated circuits paper[49] and Moore s Law wiki[50]
* [@52:37](https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk?t=3157)
Physicists, mathematicians, number theory, proofs
* Wiles s proof of Fermat s Last Theorem 1993 wiki
[51]
* Simon Singh (1997) Fermat s Last Theorem book[52]
* Ronald Calinger (2015) Leonhard Euler:
Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment purports
to be the first full-scale comprehensive and
authoritative biography[53]
* [@1:00:12](https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk?t=3612)
Robert X. Cringely (1992) Accidental Empires: How the
Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle
Foreign Competition, and Still Can t Get a Date book
[54]
* Jerry Kaplan (1996) Startup: A Silicon Valley
Adventure book[55]
* Brian Kernighan (2019) UNIX: A History and a Memoir
book[56]
* [@1:03:03](https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk?t=3783)
Douglas Coupland (1995) Microserfs book[57]
* Douglas Coupland (1991) Generation X: Tales for
an Accelerated Culture book[58]
* Fry s Electronics wiki[59]
* [@1:06:49](https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk?t=4009)
Michael A. Hiltzik (1999) Dealers of Lightning: Xerox
PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age book[60]
* Albert Cory (pen name for Bob Purvy) (2021) Inventing
the Future book[61]
* Xerox Star wiki[62]
* [@1:11:20](https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk?t=4280)
Corporate espionage, VMWare and Parallels, Cadence v.
Avanti wiki[63], Cisco and Huawei (article[64])
If
we got something wrong or missed something, please file a
PR! Our next
Twitter space will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific
Time; stay tuned to
our Twitter feeds for details. We d love to have you join
us, as we
always love to hear from new speakers!
References
1. https://youtu.be/zrZAHO89XGk (link)
2. https://twitter.com/bcantrill (link)
3. https://twitter.com/ahl (link)
4. https://twitter.com/aka_pugs (link)
5. https://twitter.com/dancrossnyc (link)
6. https://twitter.com/antranigv (link)
7. https://twitter.com/simeonmiteff (link)
8. https://twitter.com/mw_campbell (link)
9. https://twitter.com/Penguin (link)
10. https://twitter.com/jmclulow (link)
11. https://twitter.com/iangrunert (link)
12. https://twitter.com/AstroBurnham (link)
13. https://twitter.com/nrr (link)
14. https://www.google.com/books/edition/How_to_Castrate_a_Bull/zpefDwAAQBAJ (…
15. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_to_One (link)
16. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Inventor_s_Dilemma/8YKqCgAAQBAJ (…
17. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Drift_into_Failure/uOF6BgAAQBAJ (link)
18. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Invention_that_Changed_the_World/…
19. http://web.mit.edu/klund/www/books/radlab.html (link)
20. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_magnetic_resonance (link)
21. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Dark_Sun/x4vfAAAAMAAJ (link)
22. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Crystal_Fire/0bTpcTLCu6MC (link)
23. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Dream_Reaper/ONa3Jh0Fq7oC (link)
24. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Tube/eApTAAAAMAAJ (link)
25. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Big_Science/vT0jBQAAQBAJ (link)
26. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Skunk_Works/OI9cDwAAQBAJ (link)
27. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird (link)
28. https://www.intrepidmuseum.org/ (link)
29. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Friendly_Orange_Glow/NqknDgAAQBAJ…
30. https://www.google.com/books/edition/STEVE_JOBS_THE_NEXT_BIG_THING/j5JQAAA…
31. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Makers_of_the_Microchip/iov-DwAAQBAJ …
32. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Datapoint_The_Lost_Story_of_the_Texan…
33. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Riding_the_Runaway_Horse/GY19QgAACAAJ…
34. https://twitter.com/aka_pugs/status/1370950825724366848 (link)
35. https://www.google.com/books/edition/DEC_Is_Dead_Long_Live_DEC/G07yAAAAMAA…
36. https://g.co/kgs/gpT44T (link)
37. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videotape_format_war (link)
38. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_(film) (link)
39. https://youtu.be/Rn2cf_wJ4f4?t=10 (link)
40. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers:_Heroes_of_the_Computer_Revolution (…
41. https://www.google.com/books/edition/I_Want_to_be_a_Mathematician/hhpZAAAA…
42. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Loved_Only_Numbers (link)
43. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softporn_Adventure (link)
44. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos (link)
45. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_the_Dormouse_Said (link)
46. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Where_Wizards_Stay_Up_Late/H6ZzQhM0vS…
47. ComputerNetworks_TheHeraldsOfResourceSharing
48. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Networks:_The_Heralds_of_Resource_S…
49. https://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?author=moore&title=cramming+more…
50. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law (link)
51. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiles%27s_proof_of_Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem (…
52. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem_(book) (link)
53. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Leonhard_Euler/TM2bDwAAQBAJ (link)
54. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidental_Empires (link)
55. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Startup/dih2GDy5cHEC (link)
56. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Unix/s0n9ygEACAAJ (link)
57. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microserfs (link)
58. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X:_Tales_for_an_Accelerated_Cultu…
59. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fry's_Electronics (link)
60. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Dealers_of_Lightning/EylLmLzFCTMC (li…
61. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Inventing_the_Future/T4tCzgEACAAJ (li…
62. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Star (link)
63. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadence_Design_Systems,_Inc._v._Avanti_Corp …
64. https://www.wired.com/story/us-hits-huawei-new-charges-trade-secret-theft/…
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