Books
The hidden life of trees by Peter Wohlleben
I loved this book very much.
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight
Madame Curie: A Biography by Ève Curie
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf
Great Adaptations: Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels, and Other Tales of Evolution’s Mysteries Solved by Kenneth Catania
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times by Jane Goodall
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
The Nature Fix by Florence Williams
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman by Yvon Chouinard
Articles
The Gap by Ira Glass
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
How Do People Get New Ideas? by Isaac Asimov
Enshittification by Cory Doctorow
“This is enshittification: surpluses are first directed to users; then, once they're locked in, surpluses go to suppliers; then once they're locked in, the surplus is handed to shareholders and the platform becomes a useless pile of shit. From mobile app stores to Steam, from Facebook to Twitter, this is the enshittification lifecycle.”