rdmullins1978

I miss listening to Click and Clack every weekend but the Best Of podcast sort of fills that void. It was an amazing show.

Such a great series, and so well-done. I grew up in the heart of Appalachia and am forever grateful to the authors and editors for capturing/preserving so much content and knowledge that would otherwise be lost over generations.

And/or the 3-part PBS series Triumph of the Nerds, which was based on it and has tons of great interviews with the personal computer pantheon - not just Jobs and Gates and Allen, etc., but MITS people, Intel, the behind-the-scenes people who made the IBM PC, so on. Good stuff even today (the documentary is from ~1995 ish, I think). It's on YT.

Nice selection. Also along computer history lines, I'd recommend Bob Cringely's Accidental Empires.

For the last several years, I've kicked off my annual book list by re-reading Ben Franklin's _Autobiography_. I just love the conversational tone and how wide-ranging it is, and there's a surprising amount of still-practical day-to-day advice in there.

Honorable mention to _How to Win Friends and Influence People_ (I agree with other comments that earlier editions are better) and _Getting Things Done_.

Thanks for starting this thread! Lots of good recommendations here.

For a relatively high level look at CS history and core concepts, the YouTube Crash Course series is very well done and watchable. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNlUrzyH5r6...

Absolutely love this series! Secret Life of Components (YouTube series) is also great.

Surprisingly affordable reproduction of the Digi-Comp I, a 3-bit mechanical digital computer