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Bookshelf

Books in my current short-list to read next

TitleAuthor
Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is HumanJoy Buolamwini
Right/Wrong: How Technology Transforms Our EthicsJuan Enriquez
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the PoorVirginia Eubanks
The Startup CTO's Handbook: Essential skills and insights to lead engineering teamsZach Goldberg
System Design Interview – An insider's guideAlex Xu
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens DemocracyCathy O'Neil
Homo Deus: A History of TomorrowYuval Noah Harari
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our FutureKevin Kelly
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial IntelligenceMax Tegmark
Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human AgainEric Topol
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of PowerShoshana Zuboff
The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our WorldPedro Domingos
Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your WorldBruce Schneier
Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About ItMarc Goodman
The Fourth Industrial RevolutionKlaus Schwab
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant TechnologiesErik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee
Sapiens: A Brief History of HumankindYuval Noah Harari
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human DecisionsBrian Christian, Tom Griffiths
Thinking, Fast and SlowDaniel Kahneman
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You ThinkHans Rosling
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our DecisionsDan Ariely
Outliers: The Story of SuccessMalcolm Gladwell
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We NeedBill Gates
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical QuestionsRandall Munroe
Permanent RecordEdward Snowden
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy WorldCal Newport
So You've Been Publicly ShamedJon Ronson
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – But Some Don'tNate Silver
The Design of Everyday ThingsDon Norman
The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful BusinessesEric Ries
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to FailClayton M. Christensen
ReworkJason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates UsDaniel H. Pink
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others DieChip Heath, Dan Heath
The Art of WarSun Tzu
Thinking in Systems: A PrimerDonella H. Meadows
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop TalkingSusan Cain
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good LifeMark Manson
EducatedTara Westover
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of TraumaBessel A. van der Kolk
Finite and Infinite GamesJames P. Carse
The Midnight LibraryMatt Haig
FoundationIsaac Asimov
MeditationsMarcus Aurelius
Lao TzuTao Te Ching
Sapiens:A Brief History of HumankindYuval Noah Harari
The Better Angels of Our NatureSteven Pinker
MAU: Samoa's struggle against New Zealand oppressionMichael J. Field
Capitalism and FreedomMilton Friedman
Gangland: New Zealands Underworld of Organized CrimeJared Savage
Thinking in SystemsDonella H. Meadows
CapitalKarl Marx
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, StrategiesNick Bostrom
The 48 Laws of PowerRobert Greene
Kubernetes Patterns: Reusable Elements for Designing Cloud-Native ApplicationsBilgin Ibryam & Roland Hub
Terraform Up & Running: Writing Infrastructure as CodeYevgeniy Brikman

Finished Reading

Books I've finished reading and ready for review, write-up

TitleAuthor
Deep WorkCal Newport
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial IntelligenceMax Tegmark
The War of ArtSteven Pressfield
Who Rules the World?Noam Chomsky
Threat Modeling: Designing for SecurityAdam Shostack
Shouting Zeros and Ones: Digital Technology, Ethics and Policy in New Zealandvarious, edited by Andrew Chen
On AnarchismNoam Chomsky
The True Believer: Thought on the nature of mass movementsEric Hoffer
Man's Search for MeaningViktor E. Frankl