Every action doesn’t need to have a deliverable. In fact, engaging in “non-instrumental” activities is part and parcel of taking care of yourself and just, well, being a good person.
A Few of My All Time Favorites & Recent Reads:
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy - Jenny Odell
The Book of Tea - Okakura Kakuzō
Outline, Transit, and Kudos (part of a trilogy) - Rachel Cusk
Second Place: A Novel - Rachel Cusk
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
A Field Guide to Getting Lost - Rebecca Solnit
The Death and Life of Great American Cities - Jane Jacobs
My Struggle Series - Karl Ove Knausgård
The Art of Stillness - Pico Iyer
How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer – Sarah Bakewell
Favorite Work-Related Books:
Content Strategy for the Web - Kristina Halvorson and Melissa Rach
Everyday Information Architecture - Lisa Maria Martin
Design for Cognitive Bias - David Dylan Thomas
Designing Connected Content - Mike Atherton and Carrie Hane
Content Everywhere: Strategy and Structure For Future-Ready Content - Sara Wachter-Boettcher
The Elements of Content Strategy - Erin Kissane
Strategic Writing for UX - Torrey Podmajersky
Leading Content Design - Rachel McConnell
Currently Reading for Work:
Writing is Designing: Words & The User Experience - Andy Welfle and Michael J. Metts
Thinking in Systems: A Primer - Donella Meadows
On-Deck Work Reads:
Just Enough Research - Erika Hall
You’re My Favorite Client - Mike Monteiro
The Design of Everyday Things - Don Norman (Classic!)
Don’t Make Me Think - Steve Krug