The New New Thing is weirdly under-known and underrated. Fabulous book.
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Steve Jobs and The Next Big Thing by Stross.
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Also “No Days Off”, the upcoming book by Keith Rabois.
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"The Innovators" from Walter Isaacson has a couple of great sections on Intel's history. Not sure about HP, but "Silicon Cowboys" is a great documentary about Compaq's start
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That’s a good one too
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Will have to add these to my reading list. Of the top of your head, can you recommend one book on computer science?
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“Code” by Petzold
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Just finished “Bad Blood” by
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That’s where this all started
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Tom Wolfe’s “The Tinkering of Robert Noyce” tells the story of Silicon Valley through Noyce’s journey from midwestern science student to king of the semiconductor industry. https://web.stanford.edu/class/e145/2007_fall/materials/noyce.html …
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The Idea Factory by Gertner. All about Bell Labs, where Bill Shockley co-invented transistors before moving out west - bringing along with him Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore.
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AnnaLee Saxenian’s book on Silicon Valley vs Route 128
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There is a great chapter in Richard Tedlow's book, Giants of Enterprise, on Robert Noyce.
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The documentary "Something Ventured" is quite good, too
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Where Wizards Stay Up Late (invention of the Internet) Computer: A History of the Information Machine (overview of the whole industry) The Chip (invention of the integrated circuit) The Idea Factory (history of Bell Labs)
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Soul of a new machine
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