Playlist
An Individual Note of Music, Sound, and Electronics
Daphne Oram
The Code Book 
Simon Singh
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
David Graeber
‘“IMF Warns Second Bailout Would ‘Threaten Democracy,’ ” reads one headline. (Of course by “democracy” they mean “capitalism.”)’
Designing Design
Kenya Hara
The End of Everything
Katie Mack
The End of Policing
Alex S. Vitale
‘A kinder, gentler, and more diverse war on the poor is still a war on the poor.’
Good Services
Lou Downe
My Favorite Murder
Karen Kilgariff, Georgia Hardstark
Nice Try!
Avery Trufelman/Curbed
Nice White Parents
Chana Joffe-Walt/New York Times
Object-Oriented Ontology
Graham Harman
The Order of Time
Carlo Rovelli
The Politics of Design
Ruben Pater
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
‘…for 3.8 billion years, a period of time older than the Earth’s mountains and rivers and oceans, every one of your forebears on both sides has been attractive enough to find a mate, healthy enough to reproduce, and sufficiently blessed by fate and circumstances to live long enough to do so.’
The Signal and The Noise
Nate Silver
‘One economist sees a $100 bill sitting on the street and reaches to grab it. “Don’t bother,” the other economist says. “If it were a real $100 bill, someone would already have picked it up.”’
The Sixth Extinction
Elizabeth Kolbert
Subprime Attention Crisis
Tim Hwang
W.E.B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America
Whitney Battle-Baptiste (Editor), Britt Rusert (Editor)
What Can a Body Do?
Sara Hendren
What Tech Calls Thinking
Adrian Daub
‘The aestheticization of labor is perhaps the central distinguishing feature of the tech job.’
Word By Word
Kory Stamper
You’re Wrong About
Michael Hobbs, Sarah Marshall
Your Brain Is a Time Machine
Dean Buonomano
‘Whether of color, sound, or the passage of time, our conscious experiences are in essence illusions, convenient running narratives of what the unconscious brain determines are the most relevant events happening in the extracranial world.’