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AccelerandoBook

by Charles Stross

Who uses, recommends or left Accelerando, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Boris Cherny
Software engineer at Anthropic, creator of Claude Code and author of Programming TypeScript; blogs at borischerny.com.
loved

second one is uh Accelerando by Stross. This is probably, you know, like my my big genre is uh is sci-fi. Uh like probably sci-fi and fiction. Accelerando is just this incredible book and it it it's just so fast-paced. The pace gets faster and faster and faster and I just feel like it captures the essence of this moment that we're in more than any other book that I've read. Just the speed of it. And it starts as a lift-off is starting to happen and, you know, we're starting to approach the singularity. And it ends with like this like collective lobster consciousness orbiting Jupiter. Um and it you know, this happens over like the span of a few decades or something. So, the the pace is just incredible. I I really love it.

Lenny's Podcast, "Head of Claude Code: What happens after coding is solved", lightning round, asked for the books they recommend most; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions).

2026-02-19·youtube.com ↗

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