Plane Crazy youtube.com ↗

A PBS documentary in which Cringely builds and flies his own airplane.

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My Friend Bob Cringely
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Recommended as very entertaining and charming.

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man Learning & books
A memoir by John Perkins about his work as an economic consultant advancing US interests abroad.
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Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview ↗Learning & books
A 1995 interview of Steve Jobs by Cringely, released as a film in 2012.
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Steve Jobs in Exile Learning & books
A book about Steve Jobs' years running NeXT.
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Axiomatic ↗Learning & books
A short story collection by Greg Egan.
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Open Circuits: The Inner Beauty of Electronic Components Learning & books
A photographic book showing cross-sections of electronic components.
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Learning & books
Robert Pirsig's philosophical novel that touches on grading and quality.
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Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard ↗Learning & books
A book by Chip and Dan Heath about how people and organisations change behaviour.
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Quantum Mechanics for Engineers ↗Learning & books
A free online quantum mechanics text by Leon van Dommelen aimed at engineers.
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Careless People
A memoir by former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams about the company's leadership.
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Forvo ↗
A website with crowdsourced audio recordings of how native speakers pronounce words.
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1960: The Year The Singularity Was Cancelled ↗
A 2019 Slate Star Codex essay by Scott Alexander on von Foerster's hyperbolic population model.
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A Perfect Vacuum
Stanisław Lem's collection of reviews of nonexistent books.
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ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English ↗
A controlled English standard originally developed for aerospace maintenance documentation.
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Accelerando
A Charles Stross novel about accelerating technological change and autonomous AI agents.
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Ashton Manual
A guide by Heather Ashton describing slow benzodiazepine tapering schedules, often via diazepam substitution.
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Atomic Physics for Everyone
An introduction to atomic physics, quantum mechanics and precision spectroscopy with no college prerequisites.
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Axiomatic ↗
A short story collection by Greg Egan.
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Basic Concepts of Quantum Mechanics ↗
An introductory book by L. V. Tarasov using dialogues between the author and personas.
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Big O Speedrun ↗
A website tracking successive improvements to algorithmic complexity bounds, including integer multiplication.
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Bridge of Waves
A book by W.A. Mathieu about what music is and how listening changes the world.
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