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Walden, by Thoreau

The Myth of the Machine, by Lewis Mumford

Cloud Hidden, by Alan Watts

Computer Lib/Dream Machines, by Ted Nelson (Technology purpose and arrow)

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by William L. Shirer

Small is Beautiful, by E. F. Schumacher

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I was hoping to see Thoreau here. I'd also recommend his book Walking, maybe even to be read before Walden. It identifies and preempts a lot of what the 'mindfulness' industry deals with and reorients it all around an idea of wilderness.

But I'd also be careful reading Walden. I don't think it's a literal instruction manual as some have taken it.

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