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Books I've read that significantly influenced how I see the world.
The Good Mother Myth
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf
Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Annals of a Former World
Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent
The New Breed: What Our History with Animals Reveals about Our Future with Robots
Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
The Weirdest People in the World
The Empathy Diaries
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
Subprime Attention Crisis : Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet
The New Media Reader
The Dawn of Everything : A New History of Humanity
A Small Matter of Programming : Perspectives on End User Computing
Dancing Skeletons : Life and Death in West Africa
Ethnography #9 : Capitalism, Ghosts, and Numbers in Northern Thailand
Blockchain Chicken Farm : And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside
Don't Sleep There are Snakes : Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
The Essence of Software : Why Concepts Matter for Great Design
Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions
The Ministry for the Future
The Utopia of Rules
Computers as Theatre
Everything, All the Time, Everywhere : How We Became Postmodern
The Design of Everyday Things
From Bacteria to Bach and Back : The Evolution of Minds
Mind in Motion : How Action Shapes Thought
If Then : How One Data Company Invented the Future
Work : A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots
Sand Talk : How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Dealers of Lightning : Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
Toward An Anthropological Theory of Value : The False Coin of Our Own Dreams
Where the Action Is : The Foundations of Embodied Interaction
Speculative Everything : Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming
The Timeless Way of Building
Encoding Race, Encoding Class : Indian IT Workers in Berlin
The Innovators : How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Natural-born Cyborgs : Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence
Gods of the Upper Air : How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
What Technology Wants
The Mushroom at the End of the World : On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
Coding Freedom : The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women : The Reinvention of Nature
Divining a Digital Future : Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing
Sweetness and Power : The Place of Sugar in Modern History
Working in Public : The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
Anthropology : Why It Matters
Debt, Updated and Expanded : The First 5,000 Years
Visual Explanations : Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
Imagined Communities : Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Finite and Infinite Games
Amusing Ourselves to Death : Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Making : Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things
Purity and Danger : An Analysis of Concept of Pollution and Taboo
Addiction by Design : Machine Gambling in Las Vegas
Descartes' Error : Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
Meat Planet : Artificial Flesh and the Future of Food
The Gift : The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies
We Have Never Been Modern
Metaphors We Live By