This Changes Everything
Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein’s newest book has a singular and irrefutable claim: responding to climate change requires nothing less than dismantling capitalism from the ground up.
Kool-Aid
On being a woman in tech.
Bad Feminist
Roxane Gay
We should all be as bad at feminism as Roxane Gay is.
Hypertext as an agent of change
A talk presented at the 10th annual dConstruct conference in Brighton, England.
More data is always good
On The Boy Kings
The Boy Kings
Katherine Losse
An important counter-narrative to the usual mythical startup genre.
Making remote teams work
Observations about what makes for a good remote culture, and why it’s likely here to stay.
Plunder
On How to Live
Though I don’t know
On How to Live
How to Live
Sarah Bakewell
Bakewell brilliantly extracts principles for living from Montaigne’s life and letters; this is a biography which is transparent about its purpose.
Men Explain Things to Me
Rebecca Solnit
The title is cheeky, the subject is not: Solnit’s explorations into the power structures that underlie violence against women, rape culture, marriage equality, and, yes—mansplaining—is both scathing and hopeful.
Every Day Is for the Thief
Teju Cole
Cole’s second work of fiction maintains the line of his first.
Why we write
On Madness, Rack, and Honey
Waste time
On Madness, Rack, and Honey
Madness, Rack, and Honey
Mary Ruefle
“I never set out to write this book,” Mary Ruefle begins. And yet, she did write it, and that contradiction is the first of many.
Tigerman
Nick Harkaway
Harkaway’s fiction occupies an extraordinary space between evocative sci-fi dystopia and Hollywood action-adventure—in other words, it is completely irresistible.
Star wars
On Merchants of Doubt
Merchants of Doubt
Naomi Oreskes & Erik Conway
An important and infuriating book. The authors describe in detail the methods by which a few scientists successfully manipulated public opinion about tobacco, DDT, the ozone hole, global warming, and more.
Open City
Teju Cole
Teju Cole’s first novel is uneventful, but don’t let that deter you.
The Manual of Detection
Jedediah Berry
A playful novel, part Kafka, part Borges. Reminded me of Terry Gilliam’s films (in the best possible way).