Episode · The Pragmatic Engineer · 2025-04-02
Gergely Orosz & Tomas Reimers: books mentioned on The Pragmatic Engineer
Stacked diffs and tooling at Meta with Tomas Reimers
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Tomas Reimers recommended The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore and The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Last Days of Night
The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore is a historical fiction novel that dramatizes the intense legal and corporate race between Thomas Edison, Nikola Westinghouse, and Nikola Tesla over the invention and commercialization of the electric light bulb.
Recommended“So I am an avid mystery reader, so the mystery book I always recommend people is The Last Days of Night. It's a book around a Tesla, Edison and Westinghouse and the race to invent the light bulb.”
Where to get it
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The Timeless Way of Building
The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander explores architectural principles and the idea that ordinary people can successfully design and build whole, living spaces.
Recommended“Non-fiction, I read a lot of books these days. I've been actually reading a lot more product books. The Timeless Way of Building is a really interesting book about architecture. The beginning is a little abstract to get through, but once you get to the sort of latter half”
Where to get it
