Canon
People, things, and ideas that inspire me and shape how I think about the world. This is a living document. I’m less interested in single, isolated works; what draws to those listed is a kind of Midas touch to me around what they create.
writers
* ursula k le guin
* david foster wallace
* robert caro
* herman hesse
bloggers
* blackbird spyplane
* ben thompson
* tyler cowen
* paul graham
* simon sarris
* tina he
* reggie james
movies
YouTube
non-fiction
* the power broker, robert caro
* the power law, sebastian mallaby
* an engine, not a camera, donald alexander mackenzie
* capitalizing on crisis, greta krippner
* lo-tek: design by radical indigenism, julia watson
* the inner game of tennis, timothy gallwey
fiction
* demian, herman hesse
* the paper menagerie and other stories, ken liu
* the dark forest (three body problem), cixin liu
* the god of small things, arundhati roy
* zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, robert pirsig
architects
* james polshek
* jeanne gang
* luis barragán
* marcel breuer
design
* maya man
* naoto fukasawa
* dieter rams
* teenage engineering
* herbert bayer
* adam ho
* alexander rodchenko
* lester beall
paint
* jack whitten
* robert longo
photography
* william eggleston
* ernst haas
* luigi ghirri
* willem verbeck
sculpture
* lászló moholy-nagy
* constantin brâncuși
* larry bell
clothes
* man-tle
* outlier
* evan kinori