Published Nov 25, 2024

Modifed Jun 14, 2025

  • A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander. Scaffolding for design, notes on how we’ve shaped our spaces and how they shape us. Interested in reading it, both to somewhat take at face value as well as analyze why silicon valley types like it so much.
  • A History of Artchitecture by Spiro Kostof. An antidote to A Pattern Language perhaps? Recommended by a Marxist friend of mine.
  • The High Sierra: A Love Story by Kim Stanley Robinson. meditations on nature, california, environmentalism by a scifi author I adore
  • Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine. Did a pilgrimage to the new MIT Press location in Kendall (the first time I’ve been since they moved out of the Mass Ave location) and bought this. Haven’t read it yet but I’m excited for a thoughtful treatment of what was at the time an enitirely new kind of game
  • Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. My dad’s favorite poetry book that he’s been trying to get me to read since I went to college
  • Staying with the Trouble by Donna Haraway. I’ve been meaning to read more Haraway, I feel like A Cyborg Manifesto is even more relevant today than it was when she wrote it, and I’m interested in exploring the innards of the cthulucene as it were
  • Geodesic Math and How to Use It Saw this in the library of a farm I was staying in once. I love math.
  • Atlas of Poetic Botany by Francis Hallé. The vast tapestry of life on this planet is so beautiful!!

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