Reading
I read a lot, and try to get at least 50% through a book before abandoning it. These are all books I liked enough to read from front to back, and the ones I especially recommend are in italics
5/24
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story - Michael Lewis
4/24
The Yellow House - Sarah M. Broom
3/24
The Wonder of Birds: What They Tell Us About Ourselves, the World, and a Better Future - Jim Robbins
2/24
1/24
The Optimist: A Case for the Fly Fishing Life - David Coggins
Four Fish: the Future of the Last Wild Food - Paul Greenberg
Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace - Gordon MacKenzie
11/23
Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World - Christian Cooper
Design for Safety - Eva PenzeyMoog
10/23
Saving Normal: An Insider's Revolt Against Out-Of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life - Allen Frances
The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work - Simone Stolzoff
9/23
The Orvis Flyfishing Guide - Tom Rosenbauer
Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future - Martin Ford
Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change - William R. Miller & Stephen Rollnick
8/23
Building: A Carpenter’s Notes on Life and The Art of Good Work - Mark Ellison
The Working Poor: Invisible in America - David Shipler
Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric That Matters - Jeremy Utley and Perry Kiebahn
6/23
Hola Papi: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons - John Paul Brammer
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist - Judith Heumann and Kristen Joiner
5/23
User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design are Changing the Way we Live, Work, and Play - Cliff Kuang with Robert Fabricant
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values - Brian Christian
In Search of Mycotopia: Citizen Science, Fungi Fanatics and the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms - Doug Bierend
4/23
Arbitrary Stupid Goal - Tamara Shopsin
Ma and Me - Putsata Reang
2/23
Where The Water Goes: Life and Death Along The Colorado River - David Owen
Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions - Temple Grandin
1/23
Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner
The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness - Mark Solms
The Passion Economy: The New Rules for Thriving in the Twenty-First Century - Adam Davidson
12/22
Articulating Design Decisions - Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience - Tom Greever
Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things - Don Norman
11/22
Design for Belonging - Susie Wise
Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design - Kat Holmes
The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change - Camille Fournier
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World - Anand Giridharadas
10/22
Herding Tigers: Be the Leader that Creative People Need - Todd Henry
Dancing is the Best Medicine: The Science of How Moving to a Beat is Good For Body, Brain and Soul - Julia F. Christianson
UX Strategy - Jaime Levy (again)
9/22
Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture - Ellen Ruppel Shell
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad - Austin Kleon
Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America - Eyal Press
How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion - David McRaney
Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice - Tony Messenger
8/22
Matrix - Lauren Groff
Clean: The New Science of Skin and the Beauty of Doing Less - James Hamblin
The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone - Steven Sloman
Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry - Randolph M. Nesse, M.D.
7/22
The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again - Catherine Price
Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World - Vivek H. Murthy
Let Me Count the Ways - Tomás Q. Morín
Debt: The First 5,000 Years - David Graeber
Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing - Jacob Goldstein
6/22
Practical Empathy: For Collaboration and Creativity in Your Work - Indi Young
Having and Being Had - Eula Biss
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism - Amanda Montell
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore - Elizabeth Rush
Get Ready: How to Prepare for and Stay Safe After a Pacific Northwest Earthquake - Deb Moller
5/22
Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them - Dan Saladino
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint - Maggie Nelson
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design - Roman Mars
4/22
A Wild Love for the World: Joanna Macy and the Work of Our Time
Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally - Emily Ladau
The Scentual Garden - Ken Druse
Priestdaddy - Patricia Lockwood
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket - Benjamin Lorr
3/22
Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness - Kristen Radtke
What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World - Sara Hendren
The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics - Tim Harford
Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World - Annie Lowrey
No One Is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood
2/22
Return: Why We Go Back to Where We Come From - Kamal Al-Solaylee
Real Estate: A Living Autobiography - Deborah Levy
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic – and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World - Steven Johnson
1/22
Coming to My Senses - Alice Waters
Night + Market: Delicious Thai Food to Facilitate Drinking and Fun-Having Amongst Friends - Kris Yenbamroong
I Have Nothing to Hide, and 20 Other Myths About Surveillance and Privacy - Heidi Boghosian
12/21
Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America - Alec MacGillis
The End of the Golden Gate: Writers on Loving and (Sometimes) Leaving San Francisco - Various
Migratory Birds - Mariana Oliver
11/21
The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness - Emily Anthes
There There - Tommy Orange
One Friday in April - Donald Antrim
10/21
Creative Acts for Curious People: How to Think, Create and Lead in Unconventional Ways - Sarah Stein Greenberg
Moonlight Rests on My Left Palm - Yu Xiuhua
Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone - Lori Gottlieb
09/21
Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living - Krista Tippett
08/21
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life - George Saunders
The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles - Gary Krist
The Anthropocene Reviewed - John Green
07/21
My Everything: The Parent I Want to Be, The Children I Hope to Raise - Einat Nathan
On Writing - Stephen King
The Making of a Manager - Julie Zhuo
Stay Safe - Emma Hine
When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanhiti
06/21
The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from The Forgotten America - Sarah Kendzior
Talking to Strangers - Malcom Gladwell
All You Can Ever Know - Nicole Chung
The Year of Less - Cait Flanders
5/21
Good Services: How to Design Services that Work - Lou Downe
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times - Kathrine May
Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life - James Hollis
Show Your Work! - Austin Kleon
Humankind - Rutger Bregman
2/21
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City - Matthew Desmond
Eat a Peach - David Chang
Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money - Nathaniel Popper
1/21
Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents - Isabel Wilkerson
12/20
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures - Merlin Sheldrake
Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Mystery of the Mind - Annaka Harris
11/20
Gathering Moss - Robin Wall Kimmerer
Toxic Charity - Robert D. Lupton
The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America - Matt Kratch
Gulf: The Making of An American Sea - Jack E. Davis
09/20
Bangkok Wakes to Rain - Pitchaya Sudbanthad
Good Economics for Hard Times - Abhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo
Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope - Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn
08/20
Waking Up - Sam Harris
Data and Goliath - Bruce Schneier
Compassionate Conversations - Diane Musho Hamilton
07/20
Not in My Neighborhood - Antero Pietila
Travels with Charley - John Steinbeck
The Way of Zen - Alan Watts
On Trails - Robert Moor
06/20
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World - Cal Newport
05/20
Down The River - Edward Abbey
04/20
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow - Yuval Noah Harari
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness - Edward Abbey (again)
03/20
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language - Gretchen McCulloch
Radical Compassion - Tara Brach
The Collected Schizophrenias - Esmé Weijun Wang
02/20
Intersection: How Enterprise Design Bridges the Gap Between Business, Technology, and People - Milan Guenther
Orchestrating Experiences: Collaborative Design for Complexity - Chris Risdon
Radial Self Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha - Tara Brach
You Were Born For This: Astrology for Radical Self Acceptance - Chani Nicholas
01/20
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men - Caroline Criado Perez
The Art of Gathering - Priya Parker
Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol - Holly Whitaker
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World - David Epstein
12/19
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy - Jenny Odell
Eating Animals - Jonathan Safran Foer
11/19
Celestial Bodies - Jokha Alharthi
Trick Mirror - Jia Tolentino
Over The Top - Jonathan Van Ness
09/19
Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It - Mike Monteiro
08/19
The Compassionate Kitchen: Buddhist Practices for Eating with Mindfulness and Gratitude - Thubten Chodron
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life - Eric Klinenberg
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism - Safiya Umoja Noble
05/19
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power - Shoshana Zuboff
04/19
New and Selected Poems - Mary Oliver
The Awakening - Kate Chopin
The Moral Peril of Meritocracy - David Brooks
03/19
From Here to Eternity - Caitlin Doughty
The Unthinkable - Amanda Ripley
To Shake the Sleeping Self - Jedidah Jenkins
01/19
Taking the Leap - Pema Chodron
Rising Strong - Brene Brown
Why Buddhism is True - Robert Wright
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*uck - Mark Manson
12/18
Bored and Brilliant - Manoush Zomorodi
The Relieve Box and Other Stories - T.C. Boyle
The Refugees - Viet Thanh Nguyen
11/18
The Recovering - Leslie Jamison
The Door - Magda Szabo
09/18
Be Here Now - Ram Dass
The Miracle of Mindfulness - Thich Nhat Hanh
Living Beautifully - Pema Chodron
08/18
Florida - Lauren Groff (again)
Designing Your Life - Bill Burnett & Dave Evans
07/18
First, We Make the Beast Beautiful - Sarah Wilson
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma - Bessel van der Kolk
06/18
Educated - Tara Westover
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden - Denis Johnson
CIRCE - Madeline Miller
Florida - Lauren Groff
05/18
In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts - Dr. Gabor Mate
Why We Sleep - Matthew Walker
Braving the Wilderness - Brene Brown
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry
2017
Radical Candor - Kim Scott
Hallucinations - Oliver Sacks
UX Strategy: How to Devise Innovative Digital Products that People Want - Jaime Levy
Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life - William Finnegan
2016
Mastering the Potter’s Wheel - Ben Carter
Machines of Loving Grace - John Markoff
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery - Henry Marsh
We Should All Be Feminists - Cimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World - Andrea Wulf
Stuck in the Middle with You - Jennifer Finney Boylan
2015
H is for Hawk - Helen Macdonald
The Train to Crystal City - Jan Jarboe Russell
Blackout - Sarah Hepola
Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada - Washington Irving
The Tilted World - Tom Franklin
The Light Between Oceans - M.L. Steadman
A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki
The Big Oyster - Mark Kurlansky
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage - Haruki Murakami
Let's Pretend This Never Happened - Jenny Lawson
Wave - Sonali Deraniyagala
Zeitoun - Dave Eggers
2014
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food - Paul Greenberg
My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind - Scott Stossel
The Art of Communicating - Thich Nhat Hanh
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness - Edward Abbey
The New American Herbal - Stephen Orr
The Reason I Jump - Naoki Higashida
Little Failure - Gary Shteyngart