Reading

These are some of the books and essays that have stuck with me the longest. They seem to hold wisdom.

The Mississippi Meander Belt by Harold Fisk

Civilization

• Pace Layering: How complex systems learn and keep learning by Stewart Brand
  
• The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Wilding by Isabella Tree
  
• The Overstory by Richard Powers
  
• The Big Here and Long Now by Brian Eno
  
• A short history of progress by Ronald Wright
  
• The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
  

Technology

• Succession by Sep Kamvar
  
• How software is eating the world  by Venkatesh Rao & Grace Witherell
• Mastery & Mimicry by Sep Kamvar
  
• The Poet and the Computer by Norman Cousins
  
• Education of a Programmer by Terry Crowley
  
  

Making

• Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford
• Reality has a surprising amount of detail by John Salvatier
• Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda
  
• We don’t sell saddles here by Stewart Butterfield
  
• Work on stuff that matters by Tim O’Reilly
  
• Make space for beauty by Sep Kamvar
  
• Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule by Paul Graham
  
• A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander, Murray Silverstein, and Sara Ishikawa
• Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the way we make things by Michael Braungart & William McDonough
  
• Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers by Leonard Koren
  

Philosophy

• Archetypes revisited by Craig Mod
• Tao Te Ching translated by Ursula K. Le Guin
  
• The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
• Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front by Wendell Berry
• The Nine Billion Names of God by Arthur C. Clarke
  
• A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand