Books

Non-fiction almost exclusively. A bias toward understanding systems - technical, political, biological - and a deep distrust of anyone who wants to hide how they work.


📚 What I read

AreaAuthors & Books
Surveillance & PrivacyShoshana Zuboff · Glenn Greenwald · Edward Snowden · Kevin Mitnick · Andy Greenberg · Ronald Deibert · Andrei Soldatov · Richard Kerbaj
Hacker Culture & Open SourcePekka Himanen · Steven Levy · Glyn Moody · Paul Graham · Gabriella Coleman · Linus Torvalds
Science & RationalismCarl Sagan · Richard Dawkins · Steven Pinker · Sabine Hossenfelder · Daniel Dennett · John Gribbin
Politics, Power & AnarchismNoam Chomsky · Naomi Klein · David Graeber · Hannah Arendt · Karl Popper · Ruth Kinna
Technology & SocietyEvgeny Morozov · Adam Greenfield · Benjamin Bratton · Cathy O'Neil · Amir Husain
Psychology & CognitionDaniel Kahneman · Nassim Nicholas Taleb · Julia Galef · David Robson

📚 Essential reads

BookAuthor
The Age of Surveillance CapitalismShoshana Zuboff
Permanent RecordEdward Snowden
The Demon-Haunted WorldCarl Sagan
The Selfish GeneRichard Dawkins
Manufacturing ConsentNoam Chomsky & Edward S. Herman
The Hacker EthicPekka Himanen
No Place to HideGlenn Greenwald
Weapons of Math DestructionCathy O'Neil
Thinking, Fast and SlowDaniel Kahneman
The Cuckoo's EggCliff Stoll