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Brian’s favorite books

An Invitation to Indian Cooking by Madhur Jaffrey Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking by Marcella Hazan Seven Seconds or Less by Jack McCallum Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook by Anthony Bourdain Lenin's Tomb by David Remnick The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov The King Never Smiles by Paul M. Handley Chef Paul Prudhomme's Louisiana Kitchen by Paul Prudhomme The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow
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The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone by Brian Merchant
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What Kay is talking about is more a philosophical problem than a hardware problem. He says we have the technological capacity, the ability, to create a true Dynabook right now, but the demands of consumerism—specifically as marshaled by ...more
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