Bookshelf

A plaintext list of books I have been reading or keeping nearby. The previous interactive version is preserved in Maker Space.

Economics

Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty, 2013.

Philosophy

A Pattern Language, Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, and Murray Silverstein, 1977.
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1922.
Meditations, Marcus Aurelius, 180.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas S. Kuhn, 1962.

Science

Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, 2011.
Gödel, Escher, Bach, Douglas Hofstadter, 1979.
Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern, Douglas R. Hofstadter, 1985.
Biophilia, Edward O. Wilson, 1984.
The Elements of Statistical Learning, Hastie, Tibshirani, Friedman, 2009.
Image and Brain: The Resolution of the Imagery Debate, Stephen M. Kosslyn, 1994.

Technology

The Innovator’s Dilemma, Clayton Christensen, 1997.
Giant Brains: or Machines That Think, Edmund Callis Berkeley, 1949.
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, Jon Gertner, 2012.
The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal, M. Mitchell Waldrop, 2001.
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering, Richard Hamming, 1997.