Civilization

• Pace Layering: How complex systems learn and keep learning – Stewart Brand
  
• The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction – Ursula K. Le Guin
• Wilding – Isabella Tree
  
• The Overstory – Richard Powers
  
• The Big Here and Long Now – Brian Eno
  
• A short history of progress – Ronald Wright
  
• The Black Swan – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  
• 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
  
• 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
  
• We don’t sell saddles here – Stewart Butterfield
  
• Work on stuff that matters – Tim O’Reilly
  
• 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