Books

Currently Reading

• Getting Things Done by David Allen

  First read it in high school. Re-reading it with my partner and trying to implement some systems together.

• How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

  Also read this in high school. The title of the book makes it sound Machiavellian, but it’s more about how to be considerate of other people. It should be titled “How to think of others’ feelings and stop being a selfish dick” but then people wouldn’t read it.

• The Magic of Thinking Big

  Really good book for reframing your own biased thoughts.

To Read

• Permutation City by Greg Egan

  Recommended by Jeff.

Maybe

• The Pop-Up Book by Paul Jackson

  Here’s its page at SFPL.

• More Kurt Vonnegut books in general. Recommended by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show.
• Spencerian Key to Practical Penmanship

  Teaches the American style of cursive that was used before the typewriter. Here’s a copy of it on the Internet Archive.

• The Palmer Method of Business Writing

  Used after Spencerian script. Presumably faster and simpler. See a copy on the Internet Archive.

Where to Buy Books

I’m assuming you want to avoid Amazon.com.

Better World Books (https://www.betterworldbooks.com/) is pretty good. I want to say that it has some relationship with the Internet Archive, which is probably how I first found out about it. I’ve bought a few used books through them. I feel like maybe some of their website features were annoying though; like the page won’t load at all if you don’t use JavaScript.

AbeBooks (https://www.abebooks.com/) is another place I’ve heard of, but not used.

Misc

You can send books cheaply through the mail via media mail.