Things I Recommend

(in a completely random collection)

The Doc Web, Elan Kiderman Ullendorf

On the soft power of Google Doc publishing and finding the beauty in chaos.

Maintenance Phase (podcast)

Essential listening for survival.

In the Dreamhouse, Carmen Maria Machado

A reading experience like no other.

How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell

Where I first encountered the idea of “resistance in place”.

The Coaching Habit, Michael Bungay Stanier

The rare “business book” that I come back to time and time again.

If Books Could Kill (podcast)

You’ll never look at an airport bookstore the same again.

Exhalations: Stories, Ted Chiang

The book that made me fall deeply back in love with science fiction. The gentle kind.

How to Quit Capitalism, Joan Westenberg

Concrete advice for an impossible world.

Mind the Gap, John Maxwell

A Landscape Analysis of Open Source Publishing and Tools and Platforms

Secret Feminist Agenda (podcast)

“Because feminists are inherently interesting.”

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson

A crucial “missing puzzle piece” to understanding the structures of our world.

ChatGPT is a Blurry JPG of the Web, Ted Chiang

One of the smartest things I’ve read about generative AI and why writing still matters.