Bookshelf
Here is a list of books I'm reading, planning to read, or enjoyed reading before. Includes non-fiction books on anthropology, design, disability, society, feminism, and life or work wisdom.
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What I'm reading
Find your Voice
Caroline Goyder
Playing Big
Tara Mohr
For Women Who Want to Speak Up, Stand Out and Lead
Talk
Elizabeth Stokoe
The Science of Conversation
What I read and loved
Wolfpack
Abby Wambach
How to come together, unleash our power and change the game
The Book of Beautiful Questions
Warren Berger
The Powerful Questions That Will Help You Decide, Create, Connect, and Lead
Good Services
Lou Downe
How to design services that work
Becoming
Michelle Obama
Dark Matter and Trojan Horses
Dan Hill
A Strategic Design Vocabulary
Content Design
Sarah Winters
Doughnut Economics
Kate Haworth
Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
The Social Imagination
C. Wright Mills
Milk and Honey
Rupi Kaur
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
Time Management for Mortals
Why the World Needs Anthropologists
Dan Podded, Meta Group, Pavel Borecky, Carla Guerron Montero
Orchestrating Experiences
Chris Risdon, Patrick Quattlebaum
Collaborative Design for Complexity
Stranger Than We Can Imagine
John Higgs
Making Sense of the Twentieth Century
This is Service Design Doing
Marc Stickdorn, Markus Hormess, Adam Lawrence, Jakob Schneider
Applying service design thinking in the real world
Why Time Flies
Alan Burdick
A mostly scientific investigation
Health Design Thinking
Bon Ku, Ellen Lupton
Small Places, Large Issues
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology
Speculative Everything
Anthony Dunne, Foina Raby
Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming
The Logic of Care
Annemarie Mol
Health and the Problem of Patient Choice
Beyond Sticky Notes
Kelly Ann McKercher
Co-design for Real: Mindsets, Methods, and Movements
The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk
Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma
The Sun and Her Flowers
Rupi Kaur
Enchantment
Katherine May
Reawakening Wonder in an Exhausted Age
Make Time
Charles Duhigg
How to Focus on What Matters Every Day
The Dawn of Everything
David Graeber, David Wengrow
A New History of Humanity
It's Not Always Depression
Hilary Jacobs Handel
A New Theory of Listening to Your Body, Discovering Core Emotions and Reconnecting with Your Authentic Self
Brazen
Penelope Bagieu
Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World
How to Change Your Mind
Michael Pollen
The New Science of Psychedelics
Non-Violent Communication
Marshall B Rosenberg
A Language of Life
The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle
A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
When Things Fall Apart
Pema Chodron
Heart Advice for Difficult Times
Creative Confidence
Tom Kelley, David Kelley
Unleashing the Creative Potential within Us All
Do Present
Mark Shayler
How to give a talk and be heard