Resources

On this page, I'll share a few of the books, websites, and tools that inspire me. To start, here are a handful of books that I've found to be valuable and/or engaging. I won't provide links for online purchase, because I highly recommend that you order them from your favourite independent bookstore.

Nonfiction Books:

Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires by Douglas Rushkoff
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport
Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society by Ronald J. Delbert
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—And How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hart
Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving by Celeste Headlee
Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic Against Workers by Elizabeth Anderson
Size: How it Explains the World by Vaclav Smil
Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few by Robert B. Reich
The Bad Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

Thought-Provoking Novels:

The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Shelley
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Aurelian Cycle (series) by Rosaria Munda
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Passing by Nella Larsen
Keeper 'n' Me by Richard Wagamese
No Great Mischief by Alistair Macleod