Commonplaces

Books and essays I have read or listened to. And a common place for notes about those. Here, I only write down books I enjoyed or found worthwhile reading. Many of those I will return to for a second (or third) reading.

Books

Immersive Journalism

• Breath - The New Science of a Lost Art (James Nestor)
• A Place of My Own - The Architecture of Daydreams (Michael Pollan)
• Foodrules (Michael Pollan)
• How to Change Your Mind - What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Conscieousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression and Transcendence (Michael Pollan)
• A Honeybee Heart has Five Openings (Helen Jukes)

Science

• The Beginning of Infinity - Explanation That Transform the World (David Deutsch, 2011)
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• The Fabric of Reality (David Deutsch, 1997)
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• Science: Conjectures and Refutations (Karl Popper, 2008)
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• Life as no one knows it - the physics of life's emergence (Sara Walker)
• Fungi of Aotearoa - A curious forager's field guide (Liv Sisson, 2023)
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History

• Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind (Yuval Noah Harari)
• On Tyranny - Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century (Timothy Snyder)

Life

• Compassionate Conversations - How to Speak and Listen from the Heart (Diane Musho Hamilton, Gabriel Menegale Wilson and Kimverly Myosai Loh, 2020)
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• The Five Invitations - Discovering That Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully (Frank Ostaseski)
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Fiction

• The Hobbit
• Lord of the Rings
• Harry Potter
• Eragon
• Dune
• Der Schwarm von Frank Schätzing
• Die Tyrannei des Schmetterlings von Frank Schätzing
• Momo von Michael Ende

Misc

• Every Layout - Relearn CSS layout (Heydon Pickering & Andy Bell)

Essays

• The Origins of Pattern Theory, the Future of the Theory, And the Generation of a Living World (Christopher Alexander, 1996)
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• Polycultures (~namlur-foprus)
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• Arts of Inclusion, or, How to Love a Mushroom (Anna Tsing)
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• The Journey Home: Wilhelm Röpke & the Humane Economy (Sir Roger Scruton)
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• The Sensemaking Companion - Section I - The First Person
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• Active Listening (Carl R. Rogers and Richard E. Lang, 1987
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• On thinking and simulated thinking (Jordan Hall)
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• School Is Not Enough (Simon Sarris, 2023)
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• Advice for today's young children? (Yuval Noah Harari, 2019)
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Building

• The Human Scale - Defining the Human Scale as it relates to town and cities (WrathOfGnon, 2021)
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• How to Build a Home that Lasts a Thousand Years (WrothOfGnon, 2022)
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• To redesign ownership, we need a map (Alastair Parvin, 2015)
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Urbit

• Tlon, Urbit, and Clawing Back Computing Freedom (Zach Alberico, 2022)
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• Urbit: functional programming from scratch (C. Guy Yarvin, 2010)
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Technology

• Reflections: The ecosystem is moving (~moxie0 and signal.org, 2016)
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• Test-Driven Development (Kent Beck, 2002)
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• We invested 10% to pay back tech debt; Here's what happened (Alex Ewerlöf, 2023)
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• What if we rotate pairs every day?
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• How to Fix a Bug: Tests, Hypotheses, Timeboxes
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Goats

• Landschaftspflege mit Ziegen (Gerold Rahmann)
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Glossar

• Glossar

Videos

Technology

• A New Way to look at Networking (Van Jacobson, 2006)
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• Simple Made Easy (Rich Hickey, 2011)
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Podcasts

Movements

• Making Senses with Sam Harris - #316 Self-Defense: Reality and Fantasy
  • #self-defense #jujitsu
• Jordan Person - 343 Parkour and Rough Play: Combating the Over-Feminization of the West | Rafe Kelley
  • #upbringen #education
• Jordan Peterson on Mythology, Fame, and Reading People (Ep. 60 - Live)
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  • #education