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History
Native Nations
Kathleen DuVal
A history of Indigenous peoples that centers their agency rather than their dispossession.
Anthropology
The Reindeer People
Piers Vitebsky
An anthropologist lives with the Eveny of Siberia. One of the best books I've read in years.
Investigative
Cobalt Red
Siddharth Kara
The human cost of the cobalt supply chain. Essential and devastating.
Essays
Bad Feminist
Roxane Gay
Essays on feminism, race, and culture that are sharp and honest and occasionally very funny.
Nature / Science
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Indigenous wisdom and plant science woven together. Changed how I think about reciprocity.
Disaster / Community
A Paradise Built in Hell
Rebecca Solnit
On the remarkable communities that emerge in disasters. Professionally relevant, personally galvanizing.
Shorter form
Articles, essays, dispatches
Journalism
"An Unlikely Source of Crypto Innovation: Afghanistan"
Aryn Baker · New York Times
How a country frozen out of global finance became an unexpected laboratory for decentralized currency.
Journalism
"Homicides Fall to 25-Year Low"
The Guardian · Oakland
Community investment works. A model worth studying.
Essay
"The Slow Death of the American Third Place"
The Atlantic
On the disappearance of the spaces between home and work where community actually happens.
Explainer
"What Is a DAO, Actually?"
Wired
A useful explainer that doesn't pretend decentralized governance is simpler than it is.
Essay
"Care Work Is Infrastructure"
Dissent Magazine
Makes the argument I've been trying to make for fifteen years, much more elegantly.