Time and the Art of Living
Robert Grudin
Short, almost journal-like essays on our relationship to (and against) time.
Forever
On the length of forever, and our role as caretakers.
School for anarchists
On A Reader on Reading
Rhythm
On The Big Short
Making Ideas Happen
Scott Belsky
Reductively, this is GTD for the Photoshop set. But Belsky defines creativity expansively, as something that people of all vocations are not only capable of, but naturally inclined to.
An honest fiction
On A Reader on Reading & Don Quixote
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
Almost certainly the greatest novel ever written, and an early precursor to postmodernism.
Generations
On Graphs, Maps, Trees
Graphs, Maps, Trees
Franco Moretti
An academic treatise that argues that rather than reading books, we should be mining them for data.
Encroachment
On A Reader on Reading
A collaborative effort
On A Reader on Reading
A Reader on Reading
Alberto Manguel
A series of essays from the author of A History of Reading that explores the reader’s perspective.
An astonishing quantity
On Manual of Typography
Manual of Typography
Giambattista Bodoni & Stephen Füssel
A reproduction of Bodoni’s lifelong project to document as many typefaces as possible, complete with the dedication by his widow, and an essay from Stephan Füssel placing the book in historical context.
Not in isolation
On A Pattern Language
A Pattern Language
Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa & Murray Silverstein
A collection of architectural patterns, fascinating for their grasp and depiction of the social experience of a town.
A privilege
On Common as Air & The Comedy of Survival
Durable
On Common as Air & The Printing Press as an Agent of Change
Labor and moral rights
On Common as Air
I wrote you a short letter
Short is not a synonym for cheap.