"What happens to you when you can’t walk for a year? When you can’t have sex? What happens if you vomit in your helmet during a space walk?"

Sister book to the excellent coders at work, Founders at Work is a collection of interviews with founders of famous technology companies. Amongst that number: Sabeer Bhatia, founder of Hotmail. Don’t know about y’all, but when I think of my first months online, I think of hotmail.

This is a weird, unique book. It’s non-fiction but written like a Sherlock Holmes novel. Set around the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, it tells the stories of two men: Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible for the fair's construction, and H.H. Holmes, a serial killer masquerading as a charming doctor.

The book predates modern notation for symbolic logic but you couldn’t find a better place to learn the principles.

A book of maps with all kinds of notes in the margins.

When jumping the shark jumps the shark… we end up here.