{"podcast":{"title":"Oxide and Friends","slug":"oxide-and-friends-5250129","podcast_index_feed_id":5250129,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/oxide-and-friends","website_url":"http://oxide.computer","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/UtYPOoynx5qRUFIf_OA3ANFHiVD8uqC9CN7hxFyGk3U/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80OGI3/NjA5NWY4Yjc4NzE0/ZGI5ZmMzZmY4MjFi/YThiYy5wbmc.jpg","author":"Oxide Computer Company","episode_count":181,"summary":"Oxide hosts a weekly Discord show where we discuss a wide range of topics: computer history, startups, Oxide hardware bringup, and other topics du jour. These are the recordings in podcast form. Join us live (usually Mondays at 5pm PT) https://discord.gg/gcQxNHAKCB Subscribe to our calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/c_318925f4185aa71c4524d0d6127f31058c9e21f29f017d48a0fca6f564969cd0%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics","last_synced_at":"2026-06-13T18:18:11.053538+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/oxide-and-friends-5250129"},"episode":{"title":"Books in the Box V","slug":"books-in-the-box-v","published_at":"2025-10-31T14:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/oxide-and-friends-5250129/books-in-the-box-v","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/oxide-and-friends-5250129","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/d065e481","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/d065e481/ab1d57cf.mp3","summary":"Revisiting an annual tradition--Books in the Box! Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends share book recommendations (and--sometimes--anti-recommendations). Take a listen if you're looking for your next read. In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal , we were joined by some guests noted below: Previously, on Oxide and Friends: OxF s05e06 - A Half‑Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup OxF s05e26 - Technological Revolutions with Jerry Neumann OxF s04e03 - Fork in the Road for Terraform OxF s01e16 - The Books in the Box OxF s02e18 - Books in the Box Redux OxF s03e22 - Books in the Box III OxF s04e28 - Books in the Box IV Other Notes: Princeton Review: Happiest Students UMass Dining Named Best Campus Food by The Princeton Review CHM Oral Histories Night Rider (and K.I.T.T.) From Bryan and Adam (and others) The Mouse Driver Chronicles Fumbling the Future Slingshot Chip War Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital @bcantrill ( economics book recommendation ) Snow Crash ( another Neal Stephenson book ) The Big Short Reinventing The Wheel Eccentric Orbits ( recommended by listener ) Language Machines Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism ( recommended by listener ) Molly White's **review ** of Read Write Own Careless People NOT A RECOMMENDATION If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies ( If you are Molly White, please destroy this for us! ) Surreal Numbers by Knuth ( recommended by listeners ) From Oliver Herman Open Circuits Systems Performance Why We're Getting Poorer Termination Shock From Tom Lyon From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog See also Systems We Love: Life of an Airline Flight The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts The NVIDIA Way From Dan McDonald Inventing the Renaissance Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation If we got something wrong o…","meta_description":"Revisiting an annual tradition--Books in the Box! Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends share book recommendations (and--sometimes--anti-recommendations). Ta…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4851,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/oxide-and-friends-5250129/episodes/books-in-the-box-v/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/oxide-and-friends-5250129/books-in-the-box-v.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}