I recently started a note on my phone to keep track of books and lit that I’ve either read or want to read for professional growth. It then seemed to make more sense to keep track of this publicly - why not share the work I’m using to reflect and grow in my own efforts?

This is generally more intended for long-read/physical stuff, as opposed to the more direct/practical resources in, e.g. my emulation-resources repository. Realistically I probably won’t have the energy to bookmark/log online reading like blog posts and journal articles, but we’ll see how it goes!

Books/items that I strongly recommend are starred.

• “Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter”, Charlton D. McIlwain (2019)*

• “How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy”, Jenny Odell (2019)*

• “Animal Internet: Nature and the Digital Revolution”, Alexander Pschera (2016)

• “A People’s History of Computing in the United States”, Joy Lisi Rankin (2018)

• “Infinite Detail: A Novel”, Tim Maughan (2019)

• “The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation”, Trevor Owens (2018)*

• “The Lifecycle of Software Objects (novella contained in Exhalation: Stories)", Ted Chiang (2019)*

• “Tech For All: Moving Beyond the Digital Divide”, Lauren Comito, ed. (2019)

• “User Error: Resisting Computer Culture”, Ellen Rose (2003)

• “The Real World of Technology”, Ursula M. Franklin (1999)*

• “Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software”, Charles Petzold (2000)

• “Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet”, Claire L. Evans (2018)*

• “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism”, Safiya Noble (2018)*

• “Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing”, Mar Hicks (2018)

To Read

• “Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World”, Anand Giridharadas (2018)

• “Human Operators: A Critical Oral History of Technology in Libraries and Archives”, Melissa Morrone, ed. (2018)

• “Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code”, Ruha Benjamin (2019)

• “Encoding Race, Encoding Class: Indian IT Workers in Berlin”, Sateeta Amrute (2016)

• “Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the World We Need”, Sasha Costanza-Chock (2020)

• “Temp: How American Work, American Business and the American Dream Became Temporary”, Louis Hyman (2018)

• “Data Feminism”, Catherine D’Ignazio, Lauren F. Klein (2020)