Quinn Slack
Co-founder and chief executive of Amp, the AI coding-agent company spun out of Sourcegraph in December 2025, and Sourcegraph's CEO until then; writes about code search, AI coding agents and how large codebases get understood.
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (2025-11-08)
on slack.org · 8 Nov 2025 · Report
Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company by Patrick McGee
Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company (2025-06-18)
on slack.org · 18 Jun 2025 · Report
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, & Power by Daniel Yergin
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, & Power (2023-10-10)
on slack.org · 10 Oct 2023 · Report
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam: Incredible life and story. (2023-05-15)
on slack.org · 15 May 2023 · Report
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann (2022-09-18)
on slack.org · 18 Sep 2022 · Report
American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer: An example of a great leader who had minimal leadership experience but did have deep technical expertise (and the respect of his peers).
on slack.org · 5 Sep 2022 · Report
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer by Charles Marohn
Confessions of a Recovering [Civil/Traffic] Engineer: After reading this book, every time I get to a traffic signal, I wonder if it could be a roundabout (or what would need to change so it could be a roundabout).
on slack.org · 20 Dec 2021 · Report
Plane Crash: The Forensics of Aviation Disasters
This book had great explanations of the physics of flight and helped me build intuition for doing mental math on lift, drag, etc. It has deeper explanations of aviation disasters and near-disasters than I’ve been able to find elsewhere
on slack.org · 15 Jul 2021 · Report
Gorbachev: His Life and Times by William Taubman
Gorbachev: His Life and Times: A natural choice after loving the Khruschev book. I enjoyed reading this book
on slack.org · 12 Jul 2021 · Report
Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Serhii Plokhy
Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis: Really interesting to hear about the internal discussions inside both the US and Soviet governments.
on slack.org · 21 May 2021 · Report
The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro
Caro sets the context for the various stages of and places in LBJ’s life so well that I have a better understanding of how it would have felt to live through those times.
on slack.org · 13 May 2021 · Report
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