Introduction July 13th, 2015
Update December 30th, 2016
Two Books a Month November 28th, 2019
Social Enterprise - Summer 2015
- Building Social Business by Muhammad Yunus
- Mastering the Machine Revisited: Poverty, Aid and Technology by Ian Smillie
- Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by E.F. Schumacher
- Portfolios of the Poor: How the World’s Poor Live on $2 a Day by Daryl Collins
- The Reluctant Innovator by Ken Banks
Nature & Environmental Ethics - Summer 2016
- My Story as Told by Water by David James Duncan
- Gardeners of Eden by Dan Dagget
- The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka
- The Open Space of Democracy by Terry Tempest Williams
- The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram
Assorted Variety - Summer 2017
- Trauma Stewardship by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
- Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon
- The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt
- The Two Cultures by CP Snow
- The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
- The Ability to Love by Dr. Alan Fromme
- Falling Upwards by Richard Rohr
- I Heard God Laughing by Hafiz
- Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Materials, Urbanization, and India - Summer 2018
- Why You Don’t Fall Through the Floor by J.E. Gordon
- The Affluent Society by Kenneth Galbraith
- Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
- In Indian Culture: Why do we… by Swamini Vimalananda
- How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood by Peter Moskowitz
Uncategorized
- Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright
- 1984 by George Orwell
- On Writing Well by William Zinsser
- The Creator’s Code by Amy Wilkinson
- Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
- Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! By Richard Feynman
- It’s Complicated by Danah Boyd
- Globalize Liberation: How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World by David Solnit
- Catching Homelessness by Josephine Ensign
- The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
AIF Fellowship Year - 2019 to 2020
- The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate by Peter Wohlleben
- The Green Belt Movement by Wangari Maathai
- Divine Beauty by John O’Donahue
- Disruptive Design by Leyla Acaroglu
- Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg
- Immunity to Change by Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- Poor Economics by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
- Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
- The Field Study Handbook by Jan Chipchase
- The Social Labs Revolution: A New Approach to Solving Our Most Complex Challenges by Zaid Hassan
- The Carbon Farming Solution by Eric Toensmeier
- Creative Confidence by Tom & David Kelley
- Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows
- Deep Nutrition by Catherine Shanahan M.D.
- Designing Regenerative Cultures by Daniel Wahl
- Growing Wings On the Way by Rosalind Armson
- Transformative Scenario Planning: Working Together to Change the Future by Adam Kahane
- The Intergalactic Design Guide: Harnessing the Creative Potential of Social Design by Cheryl Heller
- The Art of Innovation by Tom Kelley
- The Whole Earth Discipline by Stewart Brand
- The Circular Economy – A User’s Guide by Walter R. Stahel
- Manifesto for a Moral Revolution by Jacqueline Novogratz
Summer of Design Prep 2020
- Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
- Essentials by David Whyte
- Get Together by Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh, and Kai Elmer Sotto
- Influence by Robert B. Cialdini
- Long Story Short by Margot Leitman
- Theory U: Leading from the Future as It Emerges by Otto Scharmer
- thoughtless acts? by Jane Fulton Suri
- Rethinking Design Thinking by GK VanPatter
- sticky wisdom by Dave Allan, Matt Kingdon, Kris Murrin, & Daz Rudkin
- Lo-Tek by Julia Watson
Time at Stanford
- The Universal Traveler by Don Koberg and Jim Bagnall
- Edible Forest Gardens Vol 1 by Dave Jacke & Eric Toensmeier
- West Coast Food Forestry: A Permaculture Guide by Rain Tenaqiya
- Lectures on Urban Economics by Jan Brueckner
- Undercurrents: Channeling Outrage to Spark Practical Activism by Steve Davis
- The Designful Company by Marty Neumeier
- Geometry of Design by Kimberly Elam
- Elements of Design by Gail Greet Hannah
Currently Reading
- Validating Product Ideas Through Lean User Research By Tomer Sharon
- Build Better Products by Laura Klein
- Winners Take All by Anand Giridharadas
Reading List
- Practical Empathy: For Collaboration and Creativity in Your Work by Indi Young
- Interviewing Users by Steve Portigal
- Why We Fail: Learning from Experience Design Failures by Victor Lombardi
- Designing for People by Henry Dreyfuss
- Edible Forest Gardens Vol 2 by Dave Jacke & Eric Toensmeier
- The Circular Economy Handbook by Jessica Long, Peter Lacy, & Wesley Spindler (24%)
- Good Economics for Hard Times by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo (16%)
- The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. 1: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat by Richard Feynman
- The Story of my Experiments with Truth by M.K. Gandhi
- The Wounding and Healing of Desire: Weaving Heaven and Earth by Wendy Farlay
- Polarity Management: Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems by Barry Johnson
- The Power of Collective Wisdom: And the Trap of Collective Folly by Alan Briskin, Sheryl Erickson, John Ott, and Tom Callanan
- The World Café: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations that Matter by Juanita Brown
- A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander
- Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
- toast by Nigel Slater
- The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- A Fortune-Teller Told Me by Tiziano Terzani
- The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq by Dunya Mikhail
- The Culture Code by Clotaire Rapaille
- The Book of Awakening by Mark Nepo
- Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (30%)
- The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
- Why We’re Polarized by Ezra Klein (8%)
- How Buildings Learn by Stewart Brand (8%)
- On China by Henry Kissinger (20%)
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