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Every book Grady Booch recommended on podcasts
Key facts
- Grady Booch has recommended or discussed 4 books on podcasts, as of February 4, 2026.
- Grady Booch has talked about books on 1 podcast, as of February 4, 2026.
- Those books came up in 2 episodes, as of February 4, 2026.
- The 3 books Grady Booch has mentioned in the most episodes, as of February 4, 2026: The society of mind, Software Architecture and The Sciences of the Artificial.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Grady Booch aired on February 4, 2026.
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Grady Booch appeared on The Pragmatic Engineer to discuss the third golden age of software engineering driven by artificial intelligence and shared several book recommendations and discussions. He recommended reading the work of Herbert Simon and Allen Newell, specifically mentioning The Sciences of the Artificial, as foundational texts for understanding systems theory, complexity, and how to approach difficult problems. Booch also brought up What the Dormouse Said by John Markoff while discussing how the rise of the personal computer connected with the hippie counterculture and hobbyist influences. Furthermore, he referenced Marvin Minsky's The Society of Mind to explain how ideas regarding systems architecture and multiple agents can inform modern agent programming paradigms.
Books recommended by Grady Booch
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The society of mind
The Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky is a seminal theoretical work that models the human mind as a collection of diverse, interacting agents and capabilities.
Discussed“Taking ideas of Marvin Minsky society of mind which is a way of of systems architecting multiple agents. We're in agent programming now which I think people are just beginning to tap upon how those things apply.”
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Software Architecture
Discussed“I was heavily influenced by a dear friend of mine Mary Shaw uh she's a professor at Carnegie melon I think she won the national met of Honor under Obama if I'm not mistaken and she wrote this really profound book called software architecture”
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The Sciences of the Artificial
The Sciences of the Artificial by Herbert Alexander Simon is a foundational academic work that examines the nature of complex systems, artificial intelligence, and human problem-solving within engineered environments.
Recommended“go read the work of of Simon and Newell in the the sciences of the artificial. Uh there's a whole set of work that's come out on complexity and systems from the Santa Fe Institute.”
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What the Dormouse Said
What the Dormouse Said by John Markoff investigates the countercultural and psychedelic roots of the personal computer revolution in Silicon Valley.
Discussed“There's a delightful book called what the doormouse said which posits that the rise of the personal computer was also tied together with the rise of the hippie counterculture.”
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Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
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| The third golden age of software engineering – thanks to AI, with Grady Booch | The Pragmatic Engineer | 2026-02-04 | 3 |
| Software architecture with Grady Booch | The Pragmatic Engineer | 2024-12-04 | 3 |