bookshelf

Anything written by Umberto Eco, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ray Bradbury, Neal Stephenson, Neil Gaiman and Ted Chiang
Curiosity, a book by Alberto Manguel
Short stories by R.A. Lafferty; Eurema's Dam and Land of the Great Horses in particular
Ken Liu's short story The Paper Menagerie
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, a dictionary that does not contain any dull parts
As We May Think by Vannevar Bush, a 1945 essay about turning information explosion to knowledge explosion and memex machine
55 Essential Strategies for Every Writer by Roy Peter Clark
Zen Habits archive by Leo Babauta, starting from the oldest posts; a collection of thoughts about Zen, simplicity, minimalism and mindfulness
Zenarchy by Kerry Thornley, a story about Zen applied to social life
Permacomputing, a resource on making accessible, compatible, efficient, flexible and resilient software
A hundred and ninety six things a punkist should know, a borgesian list of koan-like knowledge
Tools for Conviviality, a book on the tools that would be developed and maintained by a community of users
SOFA principles, a very short essay on starting fast, stopping fast and doing as much things as possible
Readme Driven Development, an essay on writing readme before programming things
Websites must be accessible, an essay by Norma, a non-graphic design studio in Turin

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