The following is a list of books and papers that have had a profound impact on how I think or view the world. I consider these part of my personal canon—my desert island reading.

• A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans
  by Jakob von Uexküll
• Annals of the Former World
  by John McPhee
• Finite and Infinite Games
  by James Carse
• On the Shortness of Life
  by Seneca
• Shop Class as Soulcraft
  by Matthew B. Crawford
• Sky Above, Great Wind
  by Ryōkan
• The Embodied Mind
  by Francisco Varela, Eleanor Rosch & Evan Thompson
• The Real World of Technology
  by Ursula Franklin
• Thinking in Systems
  by Donella Meadows
• Toolforthoughts: Reexamining Thinking in the Digital Age
  by David Williamson Shaffer & Katherine A. Clinton
• Tools for Conviviality
  by Ivan Illich
• Where the Action Is
  by Paul Dourish
• Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
  by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi