The Dream Machine

The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell Waldrop

+1 for The Dream Machine about the rise of the personal computer. You may think you know the basic history but this really makes the pieces snap together.

In no order in particular, these are good books: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/722412.The_Dream_Machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers:_Heroes_of_the_Compute... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers:_Heroes_of_the_Computer_Revolution) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12625589-turing-s-cathed... (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12625589-turing-s-cathedral) https://openlibrary.org/books/OL27198205M/Fire_in_the_valley

I agree that it’s tough to truly grok technical material in purely audio format. With that said, I think you can learn a ton by learning about the history, trends, and other software companies. Here are some of my favorites: The Dream Machine Hackers: Heroes of the Computer a Revolution How the Internet Happened The Soul of a New Machine AI Superpowers Platform Revolution The Everything Store

Writing a Go Interpreter Writing a Go Compiler No One Cares about Crazy People I Heard You Paint Houses UNIX: A History and a Memoir Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine How Asia Works The Dream Machine Black Earth The Fabric of Reality Behave (tried twice, maybe third times a charm?) A Short History of Nearly Everything Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Genius: The Life and Science Richard Feynman Super Thinking Man's Search for Meaning The Cooking Gene The Vital Question: Why is Life The Way it Is (re-read) The Case Against Sugar The 15 Decisive Battles of the World The History of the Peloponnesian War The Beginning of Infinity The Book of Why

Reading this now and agree that it's very well-written.

'Innovators' by Walter Isaacson is pretty great when combined with 'The dream machine' as suggested by others.