III — Library

The Library

Tools, books, records, films, and references that are part of how I work and think.

31 entries
Philosophy
The Kybalion
The Kybalion
Three Initiates · 1908
The seven Hermetic principles stated plainly. Opaque on first read; clarifying on every read after.
Read
Meditations
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius · c.170 CE
Private notes from a Roman emperor. A daily practice more than a text.
Reference
The Universal One
The Universal One
Walter Russell · 1926
Russell's attempt to unify physics under a single cosmological principle.
Currently reading
Drawn & Quartered
Drawn and Quartered
Emil Cioran · 1983
Aphorisms from a man who found existence inexcusable and said so with precision.
Currently reading
Seeing Like a State
Seeing Like a State
James C. Scott · 1998
On legibility, metis versus techne. Applies to urban planning, CSS architecture, cable runs.
Read
Design & Systems
Envisioning Information
Envisioning Information
Edward Tufte · 1990
The canonical argument that information density and clarity are not opposites.
Reference
Every Layout
Every Layout
Pickering & Bell
CSS layout as composable primitives. Boxes, stacks, clusters, grids. Required reading.
Reference
Tools
Eagle
Visual Library
Eagle
Augmented UI · macOS
Visual reference library. Where everything that informs how things look lives.
In use
11ty
SSG
Eleventy (11ty)
Zach Leatherman · open source
Generates HTML. No prescribed architecture, no magic. That's enough.
In use
EB Garamond
EB Garamond
Georg Duffner · open source
A revival of Garamond's 16th-century typefaces. Old enough to have survived every trend.
In use
001 Book
Book

The Kybalion

Three Initiates · 1908

The seven Hermetic principles stated plainly. Opaque on first read; clarifying on every read after.

Read
002 Book
Book

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius · c.170 CE

Private notes from a Roman emperor who understood that the gap between what you believe and how you live is the only thing worth closing.

Reference
003 Book
Book

Envisioning Information

Edward Tufte · 1990

The canonical argument that information density and clarity are not opposites.

Reference
004 Book
Book

Every Layout

Pickering & Bell

CSS layout as composable primitives. Boxes, stacks, clusters, grids. Required reading.

Reference
005 Tool
Tool

Eagle

Augmented UI · macOS

Visual reference library. Where everything that informs how things look lives. Local, not cloud.

In use
006 Book
Book

Drawn and Quartered

Emil Cioran · 1983

A useful corrective to optimism that hasn't earned itself.

Currently reading
007 Typeface
Type

EB Garamond

Georg Duffner · open source

Old enough to have survived every trend. Open source, which means it belongs to whoever uses it.

In use
008 Tool
Tool

Eleventy (11ty)

Zach Leatherman · open source

Generates HTML. No prescribed architecture, no magic. That's enough.

In use