Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

This year, I decided to read more fiction, and I like it.[1] Here are some of the interesting non-fiction books I liked; - Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller - How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson - The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa by Michael Kimmelman - The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - The TATAS: How a Family Built a Business and a Nation by Girish Kuber 1. https://brajeshwar.com/2024/books/

In rough order: The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War: > In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television transformed households and workplaces. But has that era of unprecedented growth come to an end? Weaving together a vivid narrative, historical anecdotes, and economic analysis, The Rise and Fall of American Growth challenges the view that economic growth will continue unabated, and demonstrates that the life-altering scale of innovations between 1870 and 1970 cannot be repeated. Gordon contends that the nation's productivity growth will be further held back by the headwinds of rising inequality, stagnating education, an aging population, and the rising debt of college students and the federal government, and that we must find new solutions. A critical voice in the most pressing debates of our time, The Rise and Fall of American Growth is at once a tribute to a century of radical change and a harbinger of tougher times to come.…

Most of the books I read are influenced by similar threads on HN. This year has not been good overall and it impacted my reading. I need to finish writing the post https://brajeshwar.com/2023/books/ “How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question” by Michael Schur is a fun book that opens with a good question, “Should I punch my friend in the face for no reason?” I have been meaning to and this year I finally read The Diary of a Young Girl. For 2024, here are some of the ones from my list (sorry for the formatting, copied Markdown from my notes); - [Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_War:_The_Fight_for_the_Wo... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_War:_The_Fight_for_the_World%27s_Most_Critical_Technology)) by [Chris Miller](https://www.christophermiller.net) - [First Principles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Principles_%28book%29) by [Thomas E. Ricks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_E._Ricks_%28journalist%29) - [Greenlights](https://greenlights.com) by [Matthew McConaughey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_McConaughey)…

In a similar vein, "Chip War" by Chris Miller is a more recent look at this. Not at all as dry as I expected it to be, surprisingly gripping for someone who didn't previously know much about this. It also provides a lot of historical context for the recent news of TSMC setting up factories in the US and Germany.