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

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.