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2023 in the Books

A bunch of things I read in 2023.

The Alignment Problem
The Alignment Problem
Machine Learning and Human Values
Brian Christian
American Midnight
American Midnight
Democracy's Forgotten Crisis, 1917-1921
Adam Hochschild
Atomic Habits
Atomic Habits
Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results : An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear
Blood Merdian
Blood Merdian
Or the Evening Redness in the West
Cormac McCarthy
Blood, Sweat and Chrome : The Wild and True Story of Mad Max
Blood, Sweat and Chrome : The Wild and True Story of Mad Max
Fury Road
Kyle Buchanan
A Brief History of Timekeeping
A Brief History of Timekeeping
The Science of Marking Time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks
Chad Orzel
Broad band
Broad band
The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
Claire Lisa Evans
Caste
Caste
The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson
Code
Code
The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
Charles Petzold
The Dark Fields
The Dark Fields
Alan Glynn
Electron in Action
Electron in Action
Steve Kinney
Empire of Pain
Empire of Pain
The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Patrick Radden Keefe
The Fourth Man
The Fourth Man
Jeff McComsey
Full Throttle
Full Throttle
Joe Hill
Heat 2
Heat 2
A Novel
Michael Mann
Killshot
Killshot
Elmore Leonard
Last Action Heroes
Last Action Heroes
The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage
Nick de Semlyen
Moneyball
Moneyball
The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Michael Lewis
Monsters
Monsters
A Fan's Dilemma
Claire Dederer
Music: A Subversive History
Music: A Subversive History
Ted Gioia
The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1
The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1
James Tynion IV
The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 2
The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 2
James Tynion IV
Quantum Bullshit
Quantum Bullshit
How to Ruin Your Life with Advice from Quantum Physics
Chris Ferrie
Recessional
Recessional
The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch
David Mamet
Rum Punch
Rum Punch
A Novel
Elmore Leonard
A Shortcut Through Time
A Shortcut Through Time
The Path to the Quantum Computer
George Johnson
Soonish
Soonish
Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
Kelly & Zach Weinersmith
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
Upgrade
Upgrade
Blake Crouch
What Is ChatGPT Doing ... and Why Does It Work?
What Is ChatGPT Doing ... and Why Does It Work?
Stephen Wolfram
What You Do Is Who You Are
What You Do Is Who You Are
How to Create Your Business Culture
Ben Horowitz
Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell
Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell
Nathan Ballingrud
Writing the Revolution
Writing the Revolution
Wikipedia and the Survival of Facts in the Digital Age
Heather Ford
Wager
Wager
A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann
You Are Not Expected to Understand This
You Are Not Expected to Understand This
How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World
Torie Bosch
Zero
Zero
The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Charles Seife