OVERLAP · 18 SHARED BOOKs
Books both Patrick Collison and Paul Graham recommend
Patrick Collison and Paul Graham both positively recommend these books.
Shared positive books
18 BOOKs-
[001]
A Pattern Language
Fiction
Paul GrahamSource note
Has cited this as an influence on how he thinks about Lisp and program design.
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[004]
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Technology
Paul Grahamamazon.com · structure computer
“one of the great classics of computer science”
Page links via a geni.us affiliate redirect to the book's store page; no clean Amazon destination was exposed, so the affiliate link target is approximated to the book store page.
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[005]
Hard Drive
Biography
Paul Graham“Hard Drive, about Microsoft, is good.”
Page cites a Paul Graham tweet recommending the book.
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[006]
Medieval Technology and Social Change
History
Patrick CollisonFlagged blue on Collison's bookshelf — substantially above average.
Paul GrahamFrom PG's April 2019 tweet listing obscure favorites; appears on his RAQ history list as well.
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[008]
The Old Way
History
Paul Graham“I strongly recommend Elizabeth Marshall Thomas's 'The Old Way'”
Page cites Paul Graham's essay on property where he recommends the book.
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[010]
A Mathematician's Apology
Philosophy
Paul Graham“Among the most inspiring books I know.”
Page cites a Paul Graham tweet praising the book.
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[012]
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Business
Paul GrahamGraham has repeatedly told YC founders to read Carnegie; the recommendation surfaces in his comments on Hacker News and in interviews where he names it as the one book every founder should read.
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[013]Kenneth Clark's Civilisation
Kenneth Clark's Civilisation
Biography
Paul GrahamFrom PG's RAQ page listing his favorite history books; Clark's synthetic sweep of Western art and civilization.
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[014]
Plagues and Peoples
History
Patrick CollisonFlagged blue on Collison's bookshelf — substantially above average.
Paul Graham“little in Guns, Germs, and Steel would surprise you”
Page cites a Paul Graham tweet mentioning the book.
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[015]
The Copernican Revolution
Popular Science
Paul Graham“Kuhn was surely most influenced...Excellent book incidentally.”
Page cites a Paul Graham tweet praising the book.
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[017]
The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future
Business
Patrick Collison“By far the best book I've read on the sector”
Collison's tweet recommending the book, linked on the page.
Paul Graham“If you want to understand how venture capital works and the effect it has had on the US economy, this is the book to read. Lots of people talk about VC. Few of them understand it. But Mallaby does.”
Tweet from February 2022 endorsing Mallaby's history of the VC industry.
