Here’s a list of books I have read. I also log books on Oku to maintain a digital bookshelf.
“*” a book that stayed on my mind and came up in conversations
2025
- Politics of the Everyday
- 7 Powers
- The WEIRDest People in the World
- Understanding Michael Porter*
- The Secret Lives of Customers*
2024
- Antropoloogiline
- Just Enough Design
- The Three Mothers
- Design for the Real World
- The Architecture of Community
- Technofeudalism
- Clear Thinking
- Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
- Shikake*
- Street Commerce: Creating Vibrant Urban Sidewalks
- Mismeasuring Our Lives
- The Disobedience of Design*
- In Praise of Shadows
2023
- Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation
- The Responsible Object
- Marx in the Anthropocene*
- The Creative Act
- Good Services
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities*
- Make Something Wonderful
- Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love
- Future Cities Lab: Indicia 03
- What’s Our Problem by Tim Urban
- Understanding Michael Porter
- Meanwhile City (PDF)
- Reimagining Design: Unlocking Strategic Innovation (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)
- Org Design for Design Orgs
- Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life*
2022
- Movement: how to take back our streets and transform our lives*
- Work, Pray, God
- Vapilõvi
- Metaphors We Live By
- Design After Capitalism
- Triumph of the City*
- Less is More*
- Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life
- Cities for People*
2021
- The Code Breakers
- The Making of a Manager
- Ask your Developer
- Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism*
- Anthro-vision*
- How to future*
- Dr. Smartphone: An Ethnography of Mobile Phone Repair Shops
- Capitalist Realism
- Design, When Everybody Designs*
- Invisible Women
- Just Enough Research
- Dark Matter and Trojan Horses*
2020
- The Longing for Less
- Hello World
- Ruined by Design
- …
I first published this list on Nov 18, 2023.