Recommendations

Books

• The Circle, Dave Eggers. A prophetic novel on the destination of technology.
• Whiplash, Joi Ito. Psychological strategies for staying limber in times of accelerating change.
• Thinking in Systems, Donella Meadows. Overview of how systems work and how to change them.
• The Timeless Way of Building, Christopher Alexander. Aesthetic book on how to design homes using a pattern language.
• Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu & Ursula K Le Guin. One of my favorite translations of the Tao Te Ching with delightful annotations.
• Wandering on the Way, Chuang Tzu, translated by Victor H. Mair. Tao Te Ching on steroids.

Movies

• Sicario (2015). Director Denis Villeneuve follows Josh Brolin, Emily Blunt, and Benicio del Toro into Ciudad Juarez in this moody narco thriller.
• Hotel Artemis (2018). Jodie Foster runs a secret hospital for criminals in a 2028 dystopian Los Angeles.
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