Paul Adams‘ book Grouped contains a lot of clear, rational sentences about human social behavior. They aren’t surprising sentences, but I don’t think anyone’s put all these insights in one place before in plain language. The insights are the result of years of research by many different people. The book cuts through the noise of [...]
Posts on Books
Etsy Book Picks:
07 Dec 2011
A Pinterest pinboard I can’t help but add to a few times a day, though Etsy Board Games is gaining momentum. Alternate filtering in effect for followers here on Etsy. No official API yet, but that hasn’t stopped Kellan.
The Library of Radiant Optimism for Applying Hippie Knowledge to Web Product Development
14 Jan 2011
I admit it: I collect hippie books. Optimistic books about making things published by very small presses in the 1970s. But I only recently realized that I can download PDFs of many of these books from the Library of Radiant Optimism for Let’s Remake the World, and I’m so glad I did. Because I’ve now [...]
The Timeless Way of Designing for Play
27 Dec 2010
“The more living patterns there are in a place—a room, a building, or a town—the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name. “This quality in buildings and in towns cannot be made, but only generated, indirectly, [...]
Reading List
16 Feb 2010
Books follow me around and accumulate in stacks: by my desks, bed, coffee table, couch. If I could have the current active lot organized into a single stack based on pages viewed, notes taken and ideas generated, it would look like this: 1. A few months ago I started picking up books on architecture, urban [...]
Booksmooch
17 Jun 2008
I mean BookMooch—have you tried it? It’s enough to send a book hoarder past the point of no return. You go and list the books you have that you no longer want and if they’re good ones, you’ll receive email alerts within minutes from people who have those same books on their wishlists and would [...]
Glosses Through the Ages
17 Apr 2008
“In getting my books, I have been always solicitous of an ample margin; this not so much through any love of the thing in itself, however agreeable, as for the facility it affords me of pencilling suggested thoughts, agreements, and differences of opinion, or brief critical comments in general. Where what I have to note [...]
