Computer scientist, essayist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author. He is best known for his work on the programming language Lisp, his former startup Viaweb (later renamed Yahoo! Store), cofounding the influential startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, his blog, and Hacker News. He is the author of several computer programming books, including: On Lisp (1993), ANSI Common Lisp (1995), and Hackers & Painters (2004). Technology journalist Steven Levy has described Graham as a "hacker philosopher".
I recommend Robert Crisp's _Brazen Chariots_. A gripping story about an interesting point in history, told by someone you'd want to know.
Worth reading for anyone interested in big historic trends. Best case we end up with China plus its raw materials suppliers vs the rest of the world. In which case I'd definitely bet on the rest of the world.
This is the best book about English country houses:
Wow, that's really well written.
If you could only read one book on medieval history, it might be the best choice. Used copies are much cheaper, and probably better printed too, so I recommend buying it used.
That's a great book.
is an excellent and, strange as it may sound, often very funny book.
A really insightful (and bravely unconventional) essay by Brie Wolfson about the excitement of working hard.
Bartosz Ciechanowski's brilliant visualization of how a mechanical watch works
If you want a more authoritative source than a Wikipedia article, I recommend this excellent book on the subject
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I haven't read this since Jessica wrote it in 2018, and I'd forgotten how good it is. There's so much in here that I had a really hard time choosing a quote to post with it.