Civilization
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Pace Layering: How complex systems learn and keep learning – Stewart Brand
- The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction – Ursula K. Le Guin
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Wilding – Isabella Tree
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The Overstory – Richard Powers
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The Big Here and Long Now – Brian Eno
- A short history of progress – Ronald Wright
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The Black Swan – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
Technology
- Succession – Sep Kamvar
- How software is eating the world – Venkatesh Rao & Grace Witherell
- Mastery & Mimicry – Sep Kamvar
- The Poet and the Computer – Norman Cousins
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Education of a Programmer – Terry Crowley
Making
- Shop Class as Soulcraft – Matthew B. Crawford
- Reality has a surprising amount of detail – John Salvatier
- Creative Selection – Ken Kocienda
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We don’t sell saddles here – Stewart Butterfield
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Work on stuff that matters – Tim O’Reilly
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Make space for beauty – Sep Kamvar
- Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule – Paul Graham
- A Pattern Language – Christopher Alexander, Murray Silverstein, and Sara Ishikawa
- Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the way we make things – Michael Braungart & William McDonough
- Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers – Leonard Koren
Philosophy
- Archetypes revisited – Craig Mod
- Tao Te Ching – Lao Tzu, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Snow Leopard – Peter Matthiessen
- Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front – Wendell Berry
- The Nine Billion Names of God – Arthur C. Clarke
- A Wizard of Earthsea – Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand