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)
- Born to Run - A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen (Christopher McDougall)
Science
- The Beginning of Infinity - Explanation That Transform the World (David Deutsch, 2011)
- The Fabric of Reality (David Deutsch, 1997)
- Science: Conjectures and Refutations (Karl Popper, 2008)
- Life as no one knows it - the physics of life’s emergence (Sara Walker, 2024)
- Fungi of Aotearoa - A curious forager’s field guide (Liv Sisson, 2023)
- Interaction of Color (Josef Albers, 2013)
History
- Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind (Yuval Noah Harari)
- On Tyranny - Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century (Timothy Snyder)
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Richard Rhodes)
Life
- Compassionate Conversations- How to Speak and Listen from the Heart (Diane Musho Hamilton, Gabriel Menegale Wilson and Kimverly Myosai Loh, 2020)
- The Five Invitations - Discovering That Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully (Frank Ostaseski)
- Woman in the Wilderness - A story of survival, love & self-discovery in New Zealand (Miriam Lancewood)
- Alone in the World - How to Find Courage & Clarity in Uncertain Times (Miriam Lancewood)
Fiction
- The Hobbit
- Lord of the Rings
- Harry Potter
- Eragon
- The Name of the Wind
- Dune (1-3)
- Der Schwarm von Frank Schätzing
- Die Tyrannei des Schmetterlings von Frank Schätzing
- Watership Down
- Momo von Michael Ende
- Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
- Shantaram & The Mountain Shadow by Gregory David Roberts
Hund
- Vom Welpen zum Senior - Reise durchs Hundeleben (Sopie Strodtbeck)
- Hunde erziehen – mit der 5er-Basis (Kai Hartmann)
- Hunde Lesen Lernen (Maren Grote)
- Das Welpen ABC (Rolf C. Franck & Mandeleine Franck)
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)
- Polycultures (~namlur-foprus)
- Arts of Inclusion, or, How to Love a Mushroom (Anna Tsing)
- The Journey Home: Wilhelm Röpke & the Humane Economy (Sir Roger Scruton)
- The Sensemaking Companion - Section I - The First Person
- Active Listening (Carl R. Rogers and Richard E. Lang, 1987))
- On thinking and simulated thinking (Jordan Hall)
- School Is Not Enough (Simon Sarris, 2023)
- Advice for today’s young children? (Yuval Noah Harari, 2019)
- The Tyranny of Structurelessness
Building
- The Human Scale - Defining the Human Scale as it relates to town and cities (WrathOfGnon, 2021)
- How to Build a Home that Lasts a Thousand Years (WrothOfGnon, 2022)
- To redesign ownership, we need a map (Alastair Parvin, 2015)
Technology
- Reflections: The ecosystem is moving (~moxie0 and signal.org, 2016)
- Test-Driven Development (Kent Beck, 2002)
- We invested 10% to pay back tech debt; Here’s what happened (Alex Ewerlöf, 2023)
- What if we rotate pairs every day?
- How to Fix a Bug: Tests, Hypotheses, Timeboxes