Recommendations you can check.
by David Kushner, 2003
Who uses, recommends or left Masters of Doom, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.
4 people
There's a closely-related genre of great books (like Masters of Doom and Show-Stopper) that cover important projects in the industry's history.
A closing note on the same page, naming books about important industry projects that he left off the Silicon Valley list.
2024-08-19·patrickcollison.com ↗
Carmack is a legend to anyone who writes software, and the book offers an unflinching portrait.
One of the star-rated reviews in his public reading log for 2022. He rates it 4/5.
2022-03-19·tylercipriani.com ↗
I was really excited when a friend sent me this book, because it gets right into the details of the history and production of these games that meant so much to me.
His standing 'books' page listing the books he has written about and spoken about, with a paragraph on each.
2021-03-06·visakanv.com ↗
Some audiobook recommendations: The Story of Civilization by Durant Iliad (Penguin Edition) The Road to Serfdom by Hayek American Caesar by Manchester Masters of Doom by Kushner The Wages of Destruction by Tooze The Storm of Steel by Junger The Guns of August by Tuchman
A list of audiobooks he posted on X under the heading “Some audiobook recommendations”.
2024-07-01·x.com ↗
Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.
The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.
What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:
Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.