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Why We Make Things and Why It Matters
by Peter Korn • 2013
A woodworker spent decades making furniture, only to discover he was the real project.
3.73
2k+
🛠️ Craft Philosophy🎨 Creative Practice💼 Work And Identity📦 Material Culture🌊 Flow Psychology
Why We Make Things and Why It Matters Summary
Why We Make Things and Why It Matters 93%
A woodworker spent decades making furniture, only to discover he was the real project.
by Peter Korn 2013
3.73
2k+ ratings
🛠️ Craft Philosophy🎨 Creative Practice💼 Work And Identity📦 Material Culture🌊 Flow Psychology
The Space That Keeps You
by Jeremiah Brent • 2024
A designer discovers why some homes hold you: it's never about the furniture.
3.85
209
🛋️ Interior Design🫂 Emotional Design🏡 Creating Sanctuary🏚️ Memory And Place🌿 Nature And Home
The Space That Keeps You Summary
The Space That Keeps You 93%
A designer discovers why some homes hold you: it's never about the furniture.
by Jeremiah Brent 2024
3.85
209 ratings
🛋️ Interior Design🫂 Emotional Design🏡 Creating Sanctuary🏚️ Memory And Place🌿 Nature And Home
The Architecture of Happiness
by Alain de Botton • 2006
The buildings we love don't just look good. They model the person we want to be.
3.86
15k+
🧠 Environmental Psychology📐 Architecture Theory🎨 Design Psychology✨ Beauty And Meaning🏙️ Built Environment
The Architecture of Happiness Summary
The Architecture of Happiness 93%
The buildings we love don't just look good. They model the person we want to be.
by Alain de Botton 2006
3.86
15k+ ratings
🧠 Environmental Psychology📐 Architecture Theory🎨 Design Psychology✨ Beauty And Meaning🏙️ Built Environment
Gardening for a Lifetime
by Sydney Eddison • 2010
Your body is aging; your garden shouldn't retire. The low-impact shifts that keep you growing.
3.76
274
👵 Aging Gardeners🌱 Low-Maintenance Gardens🌑 Shade Gardening🌳 Woodland Gardening🪣 Container Gardening
Gardening for a Lifetime Summary
Gardening for a Lifetime 92%
Your body is aging; your garden shouldn't retire. The low-impact shifts that keep you growing.
by Sydney Eddison 2010
3.76
274 ratings
👵 Aging Gardeners🌱 Low-Maintenance Gardens🌑 Shade Gardening🌳 Woodland Gardening🪣 Container Gardening
The Backyard Parables
by Margaret Roach • 2013
What dies in the garden teaches what survives in you. Three decades of digging both.
3.65
436
🪴 Garden Memoir🌿 Nature Writing🍂 Seasonal Living🧘 Mindful Practice🐝 Ecological Gardening
The Backyard Parables Summary
The Backyard Parables 92%
What dies in the garden teaches what survives in you. Three decades of digging both.
by Margaret Roach 2013
3.65
436 ratings
🪴 Garden Memoir🌿 Nature Writing🍂 Seasonal Living🧘 Mindful Practice🐝 Ecological Gardening
Every Tool's a Hammer
by Adam Savage • 2019
A master maker's playbook: prototype in cardboard, plan in lists, and let obsession drive the work.
4.18
11k+
🛠️ Maker Culture🎨 Creative Process💡 Design Thinking🔄 Iterative Design📋 Project Workflow
Every Tool's a Hammer Summary
Every Tool's a Hammer 92%
A master maker's playbook: prototype in cardboard, plan in lists, and let obsession drive the work.
by Adam Savage 2019
4.18
11k+ ratings
🛠️ Maker Culture🎨 Creative Process💡 Design Thinking🔄 Iterative Design📋 Project Workflow
You Belong to the Universe
by Jonathan Keats • 2016
Buckminster Fuller never built a world-saving machine. He invented a way of thinking that could.
3.65
393
🕸️ Systems Thinking🦎 Biomimicry🚀 Futurism🏙️ Utopian Design💡 Design Philosophy
You Belong to the Universe Summary
You Belong to the Universe 91%
Buckminster Fuller never built a world-saving machine. He invented a way of thinking that could.
by Jonathan Keats 2016
3.65
393 ratings
🕸️ Systems Thinking🦎 Biomimicry🚀 Futurism🏙️ Utopian Design💡 Design Philosophy
A Year of Living Simply
by Kate Humble • 2024
Owning less, fixing more, knowing your neighbors: a year of discovering what enough feels like.
3.71
2k+
🌻 Simple Living🌿 Nature Connection🛠 Repair And Reuse🤝 Community Building🌱 Home Gardening
A Year of Living Simply Summary
A Year of Living Simply 91%
Owning less, fixing more, knowing your neighbors: a year of discovering what enough feels like.
by Kate Humble 2024
3.71
2k+ ratings
🌻 Simple Living🌿 Nature Connection🛠 Repair And Reuse🤝 Community Building🌱 Home Gardening
Design for the Real World
by Victor Papanek • 1972
Design fills the world with disposables. A manifesto for building what people actually need.
4.24
2k+
🏭 Industrial Design⚖️ Design Ethics🌱 Sustainable Design♻️ Planned Obsolescence🔧 Appropriate Technology
Design for the Real World Summary
Design for the Real World 91%
Design fills the world with disposables. A manifesto for building what people actually need.
by Victor Papanek 1972
4.24
2k+ ratings
🏭 Industrial Design⚖️ Design Ethics🌱 Sustainable Design♻️ Planned Obsolescence🔧 Appropriate Technology
Art as Therapy
by Alain de Botton • 2013
Art as your emotional toolkit: how to find hope, memory, and balance without a therapist.
4.08
5k+
🎨 Art As Self-Help🧠 Philosophical Therapy🌱 Humanistic Psychology⚖️ Emotional Balance🌸 Everyday Aesthetics
Art as Therapy Summary
Art as Therapy 91%
Art as your emotional toolkit: how to find hope, memory, and balance without a therapist.
by Alain de Botton 2013
4.08
5k+ ratings
🎨 Art As Self-Help🧠 Philosophical Therapy🌱 Humanistic Psychology⚖️ Emotional Balance🌸 Everyday Aesthetics
Small Things Considered
by Henry Petroski • 2003
Why nothing works perfectly: the constraints hiding inside every object you use.
3.40
334
📐 Everyday Design🔧 Engineering Philosophy⚖️ Design Constraints🏛️ Form And Function🔄 Iterative Improvement
Small Things Considered Summary
Small Things Considered 91%
Why nothing works perfectly: the constraints hiding inside every object you use.
by Henry Petroski 2003
3.40
334 ratings
📐 Everyday Design🔧 Engineering Philosophy⚖️ Design Constraints🏛️ Form And Function🔄 Iterative Improvement
The Longing for Less
by Kyle Chayka • 2020
The clean lines of minimalism hide a messy history: Zen monks, art rebels, and $8,200 stereos.
3.45
1k+
🎨 Modernist Art📐 Design Philosophy📰 Cultural Criticism🇯🇵 Japanese Aesthetics🚫 Anti-Consumerism
The Longing for Less Summary
The Longing for Less 91%
The clean lines of minimalism hide a messy history: Zen monks, art rebels, and $8,200 stereos.
by Kyle Chayka 2020
3.45
1k+ ratings
🎨 Modernist Art📐 Design Philosophy📰 Cultural Criticism🇯🇵 Japanese Aesthetics🚫 Anti-Consumerism
Speculative Everything
by Anthony Dunne • 2013
Most design fixes problems. This design invents fictional worlds to test-drive better ones.
4.12
999
🧐 Design Criticism🔮 Futures Thinking⚙️ Technology Studies💭 Social Imagination🌍 World Building
Speculative Everything Summary
Speculative Everything 90%
Most design fixes problems. This design invents fictional worlds to test-drive better ones.
by Anthony Dunne 2013
4.12
999 ratings
🧐 Design Criticism🔮 Futures Thinking⚙️ Technology Studies💭 Social Imagination🌍 World Building
One Little Spark!
by Marty Sklar • 2015
Ten principles from Disney Imagineering that turn ideas into attractions millions love.
3.96
694
🎢 Theme Park Design🌟 Creative Leadership📐 Design Principles🏰 Guest Experience Design🤝 Creative Collaboration
One Little Spark! Summary
One Little Spark! 90%
Ten principles from Disney Imagineering that turn ideas into attractions millions love.
by Marty Sklar 2015
3.96
694 ratings
🎢 Theme Park Design🌟 Creative Leadership📐 Design Principles🏰 Guest Experience Design🤝 Creative Collaboration
Handcrafted
by Clint Harp • 2018
A gas station meeting, a derelict crack house, and a dumpster of wood launched a TV carpenter.
3.98
808
🪚 Woodworking Memoir🔨 Artisan Business🔄 Career Pivots👢 Bootstrapping👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family-Run Business
Handcrafted Summary
Handcrafted 90%
A gas station meeting, a derelict crack house, and a dumpster of wood launched a TV carpenter.
by Clint Harp 2018
3.98
808 ratings
🪚 Woodworking Memoir🔨 Artisan Business🔄 Career Pivots👢 Bootstrapping👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family-Run Business
The Poetics of Space
by Gaston Bachelard • 1957
Your childhood home is a blueprint of your mind: how cellars, attics, and corners form the psyche.
4.18
11k+
🏠 Phenomenology Of Space🛋️ Domestic Space Psychology✨ Poetic Imagination📍 Spatial Memory🏛️ Architectural Phenomenology
The Poetics of Space Summary
The Poetics of Space 90%
Your childhood home is a blueprint of your mind: how cellars, attics, and corners form the psyche.
by Gaston Bachelard 1957
4.18
11k+ ratings
🏠 Phenomenology Of Space🛋️ Domestic Space Psychology✨ Poetic Imagination📍 Spatial Memory🏛️ Architectural Phenomenology
Discursive Design
by Bruce M. Tharp • 2019
What if your toaster had an opinion? A field guide to design that argues.
4.36
25
🧠 Design Theory🔮 Speculative Design🔬 Design Research🎓 Design Education⚖️ Design Ethics
Discursive Design Summary
Discursive Design 90%
What if your toaster had an opinion? A field guide to design that argues.
by Bruce M. Tharp 2019
4.36
25 ratings
🧠 Design Theory🔮 Speculative Design🔬 Design Research🎓 Design Education⚖️ Design Ethics
Feck Perfuction
by James Victore • 2019
Perfection kills more work than criticism ever did. A designer's guide to making things anyway.
4.04
2k+
🎨 Creative Process🚫 Anti-Perfectionism💪 Embracing Failure🎭 Authentic Expression🧨 Breaking Rules
Feck Perfuction Summary
Feck Perfuction 90%
Perfection kills more work than criticism ever did. A designer's guide to making things anyway.
by James Victore 2019
4.04
2k+ ratings
🎨 Creative Process🚫 Anti-Perfectionism💪 Embracing Failure🎭 Authentic Expression🧨 Breaking Rules
Notes on the Synthesis of Form
by Christopher W. Alexander • 1964
Intuition fails modern design. The answer: map all failures, then solve one subsystem at a time.
4.06
758
🛠️ Design Methodology🏛️ Architectural Theory🔗 Systems Thinking🔬 Design Science🧩 Problem Decomposition
Notes on the Synthesis of Form Summary
Notes on the Synthesis of Form 90%
Intuition fails modern design. The answer: map all failures, then solve one subsystem at a time.
by Christopher W. Alexander 1964
4.06
758 ratings
🛠️ Design Methodology🏛️ Architectural Theory🔗 Systems Thinking🔬 Design Science🧩 Problem Decomposition
Keep Going
by Austin Kleon • 2019
Creativity runs in seasons, not streaks. Ten ways to keep making work through the winter.
4.26
18k+
🎨 Creative Practice📅 Creative Routines🧘 Creative Solitude👁️ Attention And Noticing🚶 Walking And Thinking
Keep Going Summary
Keep Going 90%
Creativity runs in seasons, not streaks. Ten ways to keep making work through the winter.
by Austin Kleon 2019
4.26
18k+ ratings
🎨 Creative Practice📅 Creative Routines🧘 Creative Solitude👁️ Attention And Noticing🚶 Walking And Thinking
Eight Master Lessons of Nature
by Gary Ferguson • 2019
The trees, wolves, and elephants already solved your biggest problems. Eight lessons they can teach.
4.12
1k+
🍃 Nature Writing🔬 Biomimicry🌍 Deep Ecology🔄 Systems Thinking🌿 Biophilia
Eight Master Lessons of Nature Summary
Eight Master Lessons of Nature 90%
The trees, wolves, and elephants already solved your biggest problems. Eight lessons they can teach.
by Gary Ferguson 2019
4.12
1k+ ratings
🍃 Nature Writing🔬 Biomimicry🌍 Deep Ecology🔄 Systems Thinking🌿 Biophilia
Design Thinking
by Nigel Cross • 2011
Design has its own logic: designers don't analyze what exists but propose what might be.
3.55
315
🧠 Design Cognition🔧 Design Methodology🖼️ Problem Framing💡 Creative Problem Solving🔄 Iterative Process
Design Thinking Summary
Design Thinking 90%
Design has its own logic: designers don't analyze what exists but propose what might be.
by Nigel Cross 2011
3.55
315 ratings
🧠 Design Cognition🔧 Design Methodology🖼️ Problem Framing💡 Creative Problem Solving🔄 Iterative Process
Make Good Art
by Neil Gaiman • 2013
When your career, heart, or world falls apart, you have one creative option.
4.28
10k+
🎨 Artistic Process💼 Freelance Life💪 Creative Resilience⏰ Deadline Discipline🎤 Finding Your Voice
Make Good Art Summary
Make Good Art 90%
When your career, heart, or world falls apart, you have one creative option.
by Neil Gaiman 2013
4.28
10k+ ratings
🎨 Artistic Process💼 Freelance Life💪 Creative Resilience⏰ Deadline Discipline🎤 Finding Your Voice
The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
by Amanda Palmer • 2014
Fans gave her couches, food, then $1.2 million. The one rule: treat help as collaboration.
3.92
37k+
🎤 Artist Memoirs✨ Creativity Guides💔 Vulnerability In Art🎁 The Gift Economy🔧 Diy Ethos
The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help Summary
The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help 90%
Fans gave her couches, food, then $1.2 million. The one rule: treat help as collaboration.
by Amanda Palmer 2014
3.92
37k+ ratings
🎤 Artist Memoirs✨ Creativity Guides💔 Vulnerability In Art🎁 The Gift Economy🔧 Diy Ethos
How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul
by Adrian Shaughnessy • 2005
Design's missing curriculum: land clients, frame your worth, and keep your ethics intact.
3.98
5k+
💼 Design Business🧑‍🎨 Creative Freelancing⚖️ Design Ethics👁️ Visual Literacy🖌️ Studio Practice
How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul Summary
How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul 90%
Design's missing curriculum: land clients, frame your worth, and keep your ethics intact.
by Adrian Shaughnessy 2005
3.98
5k+ ratings
💼 Design Business🧑‍🎨 Creative Freelancing⚖️ Design Ethics👁️ Visual Literacy🖌️ Studio Practice
Everything I Know
by Paul Jarvis • 2013
Your creative work isn't a startup. Build it small enough to support a life you love.
3.72
802
🎨 Creative Business🏡 Indie Business🔨 Meaningful Work🐌 Anti-Hustle🎯 Creative Process
Everything I Know Summary
Everything I Know 90%
Your creative work isn't a startup. Build it small enough to support a life you love.
by Paul Jarvis 2013
3.72
802 ratings
🎨 Creative Business🏡 Indie Business🔨 Meaningful Work🐌 Anti-Hustle🎯 Creative Process
Providence
by Daniel Quinn • 1994
A week of uncanny coincidences sets him on a fifty-year search for the story humanity forgot.
3.70
1k+
📖 Spiritual Memoir🌍 Ecological Philosophy🔮 Animism🏛️ Civilization Critique🌱 Ecological Belonging
Providence Summary
Providence 90%
A week of uncanny coincidences sets him on a fifty-year search for the story humanity forgot.
by Daniel Quinn 1994
3.70
1k+ ratings
📖 Spiritual Memoir🌍 Ecological Philosophy🔮 Animism🏛️ Civilization Critique🌱 Ecological Belonging
Braiding Sweetgrass
by Robin Wall Kimmerer • 2013
Two sciences braided: a Potawatomi botanist on why plants are teachers and earth is a gift.
4.51
177k+
📜 Traditional Ecological Knowledge🎁 Gift Economy🌿 Nature Connection🌱 Ecological Restoration🌍 Environmental Philosophy
Braiding Sweetgrass Summary
Braiding Sweetgrass 90%
Two sciences braided: a Potawatomi botanist on why plants are teachers and earth is a gift.
by Robin Wall Kimmerer 2013
4.51
177k+ ratings
📜 Traditional Ecological Knowledge🎁 Gift Economy🌿 Nature Connection🌱 Ecological Restoration🌍 Environmental Philosophy
Soil and Sacrament
by Fred Bahnson • 2013
What if the holiest ground you'll ever touch is in a garden?
4.17
264
🛐 Faith And Farming🌻 Community Gardens🙏 Agrarian Spirituality🤝 Interfaith Ecology🌍 Creation Care
Soil and Sacrament Summary
Soil and Sacrament 90%
What if the holiest ground you'll ever touch is in a garden?
by Fred Bahnson 2013
4.17
264 ratings
🛐 Faith And Farming🌻 Community Gardens🙏 Agrarian Spirituality🤝 Interfaith Ecology🌍 Creation Care
William Blake vs the World
by John Higgs • 2021
Blake saw angels and mapped the mind. Modern neuroscience is just catching up.
4.15
1k+
🏛️ Romanticism🔮 Mystical Philosophy🧠 Consciousness Studies💫 Ego Dissolution👁️ Visionary Art
William Blake vs the World Summary
William Blake vs the World 90%
Blake saw angels and mapped the mind. Modern neuroscience is just catching up.
by John Higgs 2021
4.15
1k+ ratings
🏛️ Romanticism🔮 Mystical Philosophy🧠 Consciousness Studies💫 Ego Dissolution👁️ Visionary Art
The Art of Travel
by Alain de Botton • 2002
A change of scenery cannot cure what you carry inside. Travel is an art of attention.
3.82
26k+
🌍 Travel Philosophy🧳 Psychology Of Travel🎨 Art Appreciation🏔️ The Sublime🌿 Nature And Wellbeing
The Art of Travel Summary
The Art of Travel 90%
A change of scenery cannot cure what you carry inside. Travel is an art of attention.
by Alain de Botton 2002
3.82
26k+ ratings
🌍 Travel Philosophy🧳 Psychology Of Travel🎨 Art Appreciation🏔️ The Sublime🌿 Nature And Wellbeing
Sowing Seeds in the Desert
by Masanobu Fukuoka • 2012
Our farms are making deserts. A hands-off method for restoring them with seeds and clay.
4.34
724
🧑‍🌾 Regenerative Agriculture🌳 Permaculture Philosophy🌱 Ecological Restoration🚜 Anti-Industrial Agriculture🧘 Nature Spirituality
Sowing Seeds in the Desert Summary
Sowing Seeds in the Desert 90%
Our farms are making deserts. A hands-off method for restoring them with seeds and clay.
by Masanobu Fukuoka 2012
4.34
724 ratings
🧑‍🌾 Regenerative Agriculture🌳 Permaculture Philosophy🌱 Ecological Restoration🚜 Anti-Industrial Agriculture🧘 Nature Spirituality
The Art Spirit
by Robert Henri • 1929
Art isn't a specialist's skill: it's a way of being. Henri's 1929 manifesto still startles.
3.87
27k+
🏙️ Ashcan School🎨 American Realism🖌️ Studio Practice✨ Spontaneous Expression🌅 Art As Calling
The Art Spirit Summary
The Art Spirit 90%
Art isn't a specialist's skill: it's a way of being. Henri's 1929 manifesto still startles.
by Robert Henri 1929
3.87
27k+ ratings
🏙️ Ashcan School🎨 American Realism🖌️ Studio Practice✨ Spontaneous Expression🌅 Art As Calling
Rudolf Steiner
by Gary Lachman • 2007
He saw spirits as a child. As an adult, he built a thousand schools.
3.97
299
🔮 Esoteric Biography🕊️ Spiritual Movements🔬 Science And Spirit🌿 Holistic Farming🏫 Alternative Education
Rudolf Steiner Summary
Rudolf Steiner 90%
He saw spirits as a child. As an adult, he built a thousand schools.
by Gary Lachman 2007
3.97
299 ratings
🔮 Esoteric Biography🕊️ Spiritual Movements🔬 Science And Spirit🌿 Holistic Farming🏫 Alternative Education
How to Live
by Derek Sivers • 2021
The case for 27 incompatible ways to live, and the one surprise that resolves them all.
4.16
3k+
🏛️ Practical Philosophy🔄 Anti-Self-Help🪓 Self-Reliance🎯 Mastery🏹 Modern Stoicism
How to Live Summary
How to Live 90%
The case for 27 incompatible ways to live, and the one surprise that resolves them all.
by Derek Sivers 2021
4.16
3k+ ratings
🏛️ Practical Philosophy🔄 Anti-Self-Help🪓 Self-Reliance🎯 Mastery🏹 Modern Stoicism
Find Your Artistic Voice
by Lisa Congdon • 2019
Voice is built, not born. Daily practice, borrowed influences, and the discomfort most artists flee.
4.05
3k+
🎨 Artistic Practice🔄 Creative Process🖼️ Visual Arts🪪 Creative Identity📅 Creative Routines
Find Your Artistic Voice Summary
Find Your Artistic Voice 90%
Voice is built, not born. Daily practice, borrowed influences, and the discomfort most artists flee.
by Lisa Congdon 2019
4.05
3k+ ratings
🎨 Artistic Practice🔄 Creative Process🖼️ Visual Arts🪪 Creative Identity📅 Creative Routines
Tactical Urbanism
by Mike Lydon • 2014
How to hack your city with paint, planters, and pop-up parks, and prove change is possible now.
3.99
315
🛠️ Diy Urbanism🎨 Creative Placemaking🏗️ Pop-Up Urbanism🚲 Street Reclamation🗳️ Participatory Planning
Tactical Urbanism Summary
Tactical Urbanism 90%
How to hack your city with paint, planters, and pop-up parks, and prove change is possible now.
by Mike Lydon 2014
3.99
315 ratings
🛠️ Diy Urbanism🎨 Creative Placemaking🏗️ Pop-Up Urbanism🚲 Street Reclamation🗳️ Participatory Planning
Room to Dream
by David Lynch • 2018
How a filmmaker built Eraserhead and Twin Peaks from dreams and meditation.
4.39
9k+
🎬 Auteur Filmmaking🖼️ Surrealism💡 Creative Process🌙 Subconscious In Art🧘 Transcendental Meditation
Room to Dream Summary
Room to Dream 90%
How a filmmaker built Eraserhead and Twin Peaks from dreams and meditation.
by David Lynch 2018
4.39
9k+ ratings
🎬 Auteur Filmmaking🖼️ Surrealism💡 Creative Process🌙 Subconscious In Art🧘 Transcendental Meditation
Drawing Out the Dragons
by James A. Owen • 2011
An illustrator's hard-won proof: the life you want is built one difficult choice at a time.
4.50
440
🎨 Creative Careers🖌️ Artistic Perseverance🧭 Personal Agency🔄 Reframing Failure🎯 Long-Term Thinking
Drawing Out the Dragons Summary
Drawing Out the Dragons 90%
An illustrator's hard-won proof: the life you want is built one difficult choice at a time.
by James A. Owen 2011
4.50
440 ratings
🎨 Creative Careers🖌️ Artistic Perseverance🧭 Personal Agency🔄 Reframing Failure🎯 Long-Term Thinking
Jony Ive
by Leander Kahney • 2013
Before the iPhone, a soft-spoken British designer saved Apple with a translucent computer.
3.99
7k+
⚙️ Industrial Design📱 Consumer Electronics🔲 Minimalist Design👤 User-Centered Design🧊 Modernist Design
Jony Ive Summary
Jony Ive 90%
Before the iPhone, a soft-spoken British designer saved Apple with a translucent computer.
by Leander Kahney 2013
3.99
7k+ ratings
⚙️ Industrial Design📱 Consumer Electronics🔲 Minimalist Design👤 User-Centered Design🧊 Modernist Design
Think Like an Artist
by Will Gompertz • 2015
The artist's playbook for any career: turn failure into fuel and ideas into assets.
3.84
2k+
🧱 Creative Practice🎨 Artist Entrepreneurs🔄 Failure As Iteration❓ Creative Curiosity⚡ Questioning Conventions
Think Like an Artist Summary
Think Like an Artist 90%
The artist's playbook for any career: turn failure into fuel and ideas into assets.
by Will Gompertz 2015
3.84
2k+ ratings
🧱 Creative Practice🎨 Artist Entrepreneurs🔄 Failure As Iteration❓ Creative Curiosity⚡ Questioning Conventions
Novelist as a Vocation
by Haruki Murakami • 2015
Originality is subtraction: how writing badly in English gave a Japanese novelist his voice.
3.89
19k+
✍️ Writing Craft📚 Literary Life🎨 Creative Process🗣️ Finding Your Voice🏃 Creative Discipline
Novelist as a Vocation Summary
Novelist as a Vocation 90%
Originality is subtraction: how writing badly in English gave a Japanese novelist his voice.
by Haruki Murakami 2015
3.89
19k+ ratings
✍️ Writing Craft📚 Literary Life🎨 Creative Process🗣️ Finding Your Voice🏃 Creative Discipline
This Is Gonna Hurt
by Nikki Sixx • 2011
Beauty in the broken: a rock icon's lens on music, photography, and creative imperfection.
4.17
5k+
🎸 Rock Memoirs📸 Music Photography🎨 Creative Process🤝 Artistic Collaboration🌑 Dark Aesthetics
This Is Gonna Hurt Summary
This Is Gonna Hurt 90%
Beauty in the broken: a rock icon's lens on music, photography, and creative imperfection.
by Nikki Sixx 2011
4.17
5k+ ratings
🎸 Rock Memoirs📸 Music Photography🎨 Creative Process🤝 Artistic Collaboration🌑 Dark Aesthetics
Phosphorescence
by Julia Baird • 2020
What sustains you when optimism fails: nature, deep friendship, and the discipline of noticing.
3.77
12k+
✨ Everyday Awe🌿 Nature Connection🔍 Attention Practice🤝 Deep Friendships💗 Self-Compassion
Phosphorescence Summary
Phosphorescence 90%
What sustains you when optimism fails: nature, deep friendship, and the discipline of noticing.
by Julia Baird 2020
3.77
12k+ ratings
✨ Everyday Awe🌿 Nature Connection🔍 Attention Practice🤝 Deep Friendships💗 Self-Compassion
Joyful
by Ingrid Fetell Lee • 2018
Color, curves, and a window with a view: ten physical switches that lift any room's mood.
3.85
11k+
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Joyful 89%
Color, curves, and a window with a view: ten physical switches that lift any room's mood.
by Ingrid Fetell Lee 2018
3.85
11k+ ratings
🧠 Environmental Psychology🌸 Everyday Aesthetics🎨 Color Psychology🌿 Biophilic Design👁️ Sensory Design
Never Play It Safe
by Chase Jarvis • 2024
Why the safe route is the biggest gamble, and how to build a life you actually want.
3.86
406
🎨 Creative Business🧭 Life Design🎯 Attention Management✨ Intuition Cultivation🔄 Failure Reframing
Never Play It Safe Summary
Never Play It Safe 89%
Why the safe route is the biggest gamble, and how to build a life you actually want.
by Chase Jarvis 2024
3.86
406 ratings
🎨 Creative Business🧭 Life Design🎯 Attention Management✨ Intuition Cultivation🔄 Failure Reframing
Buddhism
by Damien Keown • 1996
Buddhism has no god, no bible, no pope. What holds its many traditions together?
3.74
3k+
📖 Introductory Buddhism☸️ Buddhist Philosophy🛕 Theravada Buddhism🪷 Mahayana Buddhism🧘 Meditation Practice
Buddhism Summary
Buddhism 89%
Buddhism has no god, no bible, no pope. What holds its many traditions together?
by Damien Keown 1996
3.74
3k+ ratings
📖 Introductory Buddhism☸️ Buddhist Philosophy🛕 Theravada Buddhism🪷 Mahayana Buddhism🧘 Meditation Practice
How to Think More Effectively
by The School of Life • 2020
Notebooks, long walks, and the right kind of envy: the thinking toolkit nobody handed you.
4.09
1k+
🏛️ Practical Philosophy🧠 Thinking Skills📓 Idea Capture💡 Mental Clarity🎨 Creative Process
How to Think More Effectively Summary
How to Think More Effectively 89%
Notebooks, long walks, and the right kind of envy: the thinking toolkit nobody handed you.
by The School of Life 2020
4.09
1k+ ratings
🏛️ Practical Philosophy🧠 Thinking Skills📓 Idea Capture💡 Mental Clarity🎨 Creative Process
Imagine a City
by Mark Vanhoenacker • 2022
A pilot's repeated city layovers trace one hidden route: back to the small hometown he fled.
3.65
422
🏙️ Urban Travel Writing✈️ Aviation Memoirs🧭 Sense Of Place👁️ Urban Observation✍️ Lyrical Nonfiction
Imagine a City Summary
Imagine a City 89%
A pilot's repeated city layovers trace one hidden route: back to the small hometown he fled.
by Mark Vanhoenacker 2022
3.65
422 ratings
🏙️ Urban Travel Writing✈️ Aviation Memoirs🧭 Sense Of Place👁️ Urban Observation✍️ Lyrical Nonfiction
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
by William H. Whyte • 1980
A decade of time-lapse footage on New York plazas upended every assumption about what draws a crowd.
4.33
927
🏙️ Public Space🚶 Street Life🏘️ Human-Scale Urbanism✨ Placemaking🌍 Urban Anthropology
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces Summary
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces 89%
A decade of time-lapse footage on New York plazas upended every assumption about what draws a crowd.
by William H. Whyte 1980
4.33
927 ratings
🏙️ Public Space🚶 Street Life🏘️ Human-Scale Urbanism✨ Placemaking🌍 Urban Anthropology
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