Book Recs

My most recommended books across various topics.

  • Most Referenced

    An ongoing list of non-fiction books I find I reach for the most to think with, write with, and revisit.

    Cover for As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance
    Cover for The Mushroom at the End of the World
    Cover for Seeing Like a State
    Cover for The Uncontrollability of the World
    Cover for The Real World of Technology
    Cover for Cannibal Capitalism

  • Disability and Access

    The world we live in broadly assumes that all humans have the same abilities and capacity. These books recognize that is ableist bullshit and imagine other possibilities.

    Cover for A Disability History of the United States
    Cover for Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Accessibility
    Cover for Care Work
    Cover for Accessible America
    Cover for Designing Disability
    Cover for Disability Visibility

  • Machine Learning

    Machine learning—broadly known as AI—has been rapidly adopted by the tech industry to automate/handle all sorts of tasks. What this list suggests is, maybe that's bad?

    Cover for Artificial Unintelligence
    Cover for All Data Are Local
    Cover for Weapons of Math Destruction
    Cover for You Look Like a Thing and I Love You
    Cover for Studying Those Who Study Us
    Cover for Algorithms of Oppression

hey i'm winston. i read a lot for fun and to help me better understand and interrogate our world. this web-blog is where i chronicle some of my learning. i work as a technical product manager.