Keith Wagner - Book Notes

I had heard about this book on a Plain English podcast episode.

This book is a memoir of sorts of Cindy Cohn who was a lawyer for, and then eventually the executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

I found this book from an episode of the Decoder Podcast.

I picked this book up after re-watching the HBO series and the accompanying podcast.

I heard of this book from 404 media and it made me kind of want to smash all my technology and go move into the woods as a hermit.

I graduated college and started my career shortly before the 2008 financial crisis hit.

I've known now for a while that streaming is bad for artists, and while I still have and use my Apple Music subscription, I have been using it less and less, focusing on growing my music collection.

I picked a good time to read this book.

Despite working my entire adult life on computers, I never really dug all that deep into the history of the development of computer chips.

This was a fascinating read about a little bit of the history or the current AI hype and many of its problems.

I had heard about this book a while ago and when it was mentioned again in Apple in China, I decided to see if it was available through my library, and sure enough it was.

This was a look at how Apple grew from manufacturing primarily in America to almost exclusively in China.

I'm not one who generally likes memoirs, but this was an incredible listen about John Romero's life, growing up and gaining a legacy of one of the DOOM creators.

This was a fantastic dive into the history of the encrypted phone market.

I found out about this book from an episode of the Techdirt Podcast.

I remember when I first heard about the Astros cheating scheme.

I had heard a Fresh Air interview with Richard Behar about the largest Ponzi scheme in American history.

This was a sobering look at where we are as a society.

I’m a pretty big space geek.

I had heard about this book on an episode of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Addendum podcast and quickly put a hold on it at on Libby.

As someone who enjoys reading about history, this was an in-depth look at one of the darkest periods in American history.

This is the second book of Erik Larson's I've read and it was again well written.

To say I've been upset at the lies, misinformation, and disinformation we see on social media and various TV channels would be an understatement.

I had known that Pakistan was divided into East and West Pakistan at one point in history, but didn’t really know how the region formed into what it is today.

Like The Storm Before the Storm, I had discovered this book on a Hardcore History Addendum episode.

This was an absolutely fascinating look at the Roman Republic leading up to the fall of the republic and the rise of the Roman Empire.

I had heard of this book from a Make Me Smart podcast episode.

If you haven’t already picked up on it, I’m a pretty big space geek.

Nothing in this book is known to be true.

From the beginning, I thought that crypto was pretty dumb.

I’ve read several of Kashmir’s articles in the New York Times, so I knew she knows her stuff when it comes to privacy and technology.

This was a really fascinating look at Lincoln's rise to the presidency. and how he ran the Union during America's darkest hours.

This book was an interesting read looking at one of the biggest victims of unrestricted submarine warfare.