On education:
1. Anti-Education: On the Future of Our Educational Institutions- Friedrich Nietzsche
2. How to Think Like Shakespeare- Scott Newstok
3. Curious- Ian Leslie
On work:
1. Shopclass as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work- Matthew B Crawford
2. Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity- David Whyte
3. The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy- David Graeber
On “these internet times”:
1. The World Beyond Your Head: How to Flourish in an Age of Distraction- Matthew B Crawford
2. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy- Jenny Odell
On art+society:
1. The Other Serious: Essays for the New American Generation- Christy Wampole
2. Art & Lies- Jeanette Winterson
3. Art Objects- Jeanette Winterson
On/ with beauty:
1. Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays- Mary Oliver
2. Upstream: Mary Oliver
3. Sensual Home- Ilse Crawford (has a vv cool episode on netflix's Abstract)
4. I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Dĕd- Ranjit Hoskote