Patrick Collison's Book Recommendations
Patrick Collison is an Irish entrepreneur and co-founder of Stripe, a global technology company that enables businesses to accept online payments. Along with his brother John, Patrick has transformed Stripe into one of the most valuable private tech companies in the world. Stripe’s innovative approach to online payments has made it a key player in the financial technology space. Collison is known for his deep interest in science, technology, and policy, often engaging in conversations about innovation, progress, and how to improve societal outcomes. He is an advocate for scientific advancement and the intersection of technology and public policy.
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Poor Charlie's Almanack
Charles T. Munger
The Beginning of Infinity
David Deutsch
The Inner Game of Tennis
W. Timothy Gallwey
How Buildings Learn
Stewart Brand
The Journalist and the Murderer
Janet Malcolm
The Old Way
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Swimming Across
Andrew S. Grove
Sum
David Eagleman
The Rise and Fall of American Growth
Robert J. Gordon
Whole Earth Discipline
Stewart Brand
Art of Doing Science and Engineering
Richard R. Hamming
Matterhorn
Karl Marlantes
Quantum Computing Since Democritus
Scott Aaronson
A Great Leap Forward
Alexander J. Field
Medieval Technology and Social Change
Lynn White (Jr.)
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
Evan Osnos
Where is My Flying Car?
J. Storrs Hall
Masters of Doom
David Kushner
The Mind-Body Problem
Jonathan Westphal
Orality and Literacy
Walter J. Ong, John Hartley
The Man Behind the Microchip
Leslie Berlin
Revolution in the Valley
Andy Hertzfeld
Democracy in America: Abridged Edition
Alexis de Tocqueville
Scramble for Africa...
Thomas Pakenham
Out of Mao's Shadow
Philip P. Pan
The Ocean of Life
Callum Roberts
Incompleteness
Rebecca Goldstein
Plato at the Googleplex
Rebecca Goldstein
Nixonland
Rick Perlstein
Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming
Peter Norvig
A Vast Machine
Paul N. Edwards
Making Silicon Valley
Christophe Lécuyer
Pacific
Simon Winchester
The Planet Remade
Oliver Morton
The Hunters
James Salter
Season of the Witch
David Talbot
Global Catastrophic Risks
Nick Bostrom, Milan M. Cirkovic
I Didn't Do It for You
Michela Wrong
The Feminine Mystique
Betty Friedan
The Long Way
Bernard Moitessier
Justice as Fairness
John Rawls, Professor John Rawls
From Counterculture to Cyberculture
Fred Turner
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman
A Pattern Language
Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, second edition
Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman
On Intelligence
Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee
Dealers of Lightning
Michael A. Hiltzik
The Idea Factory
Jon Gertner
The True Story of a Lone Genius who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Dava Sobel
Stuff Matters
Mark Miodownik
The Dream Machine
M. Mitchell Waldrop
The City in History
Lewis Mumford
Men, Machines, and Modern Times
Elting Elmore Morison
Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics
Nicholas J. Higham, Mark R. Dennis, Paul Glendinning, Paul A. Martin, Fadil Santosa, Jared Tanner
Foucault's Pendulum
Umberto Eco
The Nature of Mathematical Modeling
Neil A. Gershenfeld
Nixon Agonistes
Garry Wills
Genentech
Sally Smith Hughes
If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?
Stephen Webb
Mindstorms
Seymour A. Papert
How Asia Works
Joe Studwell
Stubborn Attachments
Tyler Cowen
The Educated Mind
Kieran Egan
Postcards from Tomorrow Square
James Fallows
The Arabs
Eugene Rogan
رۆبنسۆن کروزۆ
Daniel Defoe
Weather of the San Francisco Bay Region
Harold Gilliam
Hard Landing
Thomas Petzinger, Jr.
In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz
Michela Wrong
Anthropic Bias
Nick Bostrom
China Airborne
James M. Fallows
Asimov's New Guide to Science
Isaac Asimov
Tuxedo Park
Jennet Conant
Toward a Theory of Instruction
Jerome Bruner
The Chip
T.R. Reid
A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole
The Cowshed
Xianlin Ji
Spacetime and Geometry
Sean Carroll, Sean M. Carroll
Moral Mazes
Robert Jackall
Freedom's Forge
Arthur Herman
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters
Jason Stearns
Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang
Business Adventures
John Brooks
Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
The Little Kingdom
Michael Moritz
The Big Score
Michael Shawn Malone
A Decade of Research
Giuliana Lavendel, Carol Leitner
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