BOOK SPLOT
- Thank You For Arguing - Jay Heinrichs
- Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
- Out of the Forest - Gregory P Smith (heavy read, not for the faint of heart)
- People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn
- How to Invent Everything - Ryan North
- Thing Explainer - Randall Munroe
- Mother Tongue - Bill Bryson
- The Timeless Way of Building & A Pattern Language & The Nature of Order - Christopher Alexander
- Mastery & 48 Laws of Power- Robert Greene
- Basically anything by Giles Milton (Paradise Lost - Smyrna 1922 and Fascinating Footnotes from History)
- Through the Language Glass - Guy Deutscher
- The History of China - David C Wright
- The Private Life of Chairman Mao - Zhisui Li
- Wild Swans - Jung Chang
- How to Read a French Fry - Russ Parsons
- The Systems Bible - John Gall (he is hilariously cynical about large systems 😂)
- blink & the Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry - Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Cosmos - Carl Sagan
- 12 Rules for Life - Jordan Peterson
- Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal - Joel Salatin
- Lean In - Sheryl Sandberg
- Field Guide to American Houses - Virginia Savage McAlester
- Nickel & Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich
- Unlocking the Clubhouse - Women in Computer Science
- Tar Sands - Andrew Nikiforuk
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Mark Manson
- Everything's F*cked - Mark Manson
- At Home - Bill Bryson
To Read list:
- Incerto - Taleb
- The Making of a Manager - Julie Zhuo
- We Will Not Cease - Archibald Baxter
- Why Architecture Matters - Paul Goldberger
- Calvin Cobb, Radio Woodworker - Roy Underhill
- The Codding of the American Mind - Lukianoff & Haidt
- Anti-Intellectualism in American Life - Richard Hofstadter
- Why Buildings Stand Up & Why Buildings Fall Down - Salvadori
- How Buildings Learn - Stewart Brand
- Home & Looking Around - Witold Rybezynski
- Architecture of Happiness - Alain de Botton
- Wanderlust - Rebecca Solinit
- True Notebooks - Mark Salzman
- The Penguin History of New Zealand - Michael King
- At Home - Bill Bryson
- The World Beyond Your Head - Matthew Crawford