I have three Audible credits I need to spend in the next couple of weeks. What audiobooks should I get? I'm interested in AI and technology, science, business, history, politics and policy, etc. I'm not interested in fiction.

@binarybits Some non-fiction books I've recently enjoyed: Dan Jones, The Plantagenets William Shirer, Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Peter Robison, Flying Blind (fall of Boeing) Robert Caro, Means of Ascent (any of the LBJ books are amazing) Kurt Andersen, Fantasyland

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@binarybits The best audio book I ever heard is Born a Crime by Trevor Noah. I'm not much of a fan of his show / stand up but the storytelling & accents he does are amazing. And you learn a bit about the history of S. Africa. audible.com/pd/B01IW9TQPK?…

@binarybits Wages of Destruction

@binarybits team of rivals by doris kearnes goodwin boundless by nick kostov and sean mclain house of huawei by eva dou america and iran by john ghazvinian are some recent nonfiction books I quite enjoyed as audiobooks. narration for all 4 is excellent as well

@binarybits Breakneck by Dan wang was solid! And relevant for av/ai. Also looking to read the let them theory next which is more self help but heard it's very good and super popular.

@binarybits Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra Vogel is great and hits all those beats

@binarybits The Knowledge Machine by Michael Strevens (history and philosophy of science, by a philosopher) The Man from the Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya (on von Neuman) How Minds Change by David McRaney

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@binarybits Have you read “The Age of Em” by @robinhanson?

@binarybits Diarmaid MacCulloch's "Thomas Cromwell" hits 3 of your interests. William Dalrymple's "The golden road" tells a tale not often told. M M Waldrop's "The dream machine" is a great backgrounder on IT. Lori Garver reads her own "Escaping gravity" so well. Any of Eric Berger's books.

@binarybits Metaphysical Club by Menand

@binarybits The Sam Tanenhaus bio of William F. Buckley is very good. I just taped a podcast with him.

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@binarybits Some favorites: Rhodes - The Making of the Atomic Bomb Rich - Skunk Works a Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed Lindley - Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

@binarybits Uh, I cringe to self promote, but you asked, and I care, so: theskillcodebook.com

@binarybits Seven Types of Atheism by John Gray. Short read, fun and polemical with lots of stray insights and historical tidbits.

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@binarybits Seriously, though - Paradise Lost. It's genuinely very good as an audiobook. Innovator's Solution is good.