Works

Specific books, essays, texts worth returning to. Not reviews — notes on what they offer and where they connect.

Fiction

• The Dispossessed — Le Guin (1974). The ambiguous utopia.
• Always Coming Home — Le Guin (1985). Future anthropology.
• A Wizard of Earthsea — Le Guin (1968). Naming, shadow, balance.

Nonfiction

• Small Is Beautiful — Schumacher (1973). Economics as if people mattered.
• Tools for Conviviality — Illich (1973). Tools that serve vs. tools that dominate.
• How Buildings Learn — Brand (1994). Adaptation over time.

Essays

• “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction” — Le Guin (1986). Narrative as container.
• “An App Can Be a Home-Cooked Meal” — Sloan (2020). Specific tools for specific contexts.

This isn’t a reading list — it’s a reference collection. Dip in where links lead you.