https://www.amazon.com/Art-as-Experience-John-Dewey/dp/0399531971

@context_ing, @viveka, @maxkreminski

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/

@jb31842: There's this old (Soviet) Russian thing called "Triz". If you're familiar with the "Design Patterns" movement in OOP from a few decades ago, it's sort of like that for mechanical engineering. Books exist but I mostly know about it from random web sites.

Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic_of_Enlightenment

https://groups.csail.mit.edu/medg/people/psz/Licklider.html

https://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view/138

https://designopendata.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/understanding-media-mcluhan.pdf

@andy_matuschak, @mtraven, @diego_lomanto

https://www.amazon.com/Notes-Synthesis-Form-Harvard-Paperbacks/dp/0674627512

http://en.bp.ntu.edu.tw/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/06-Alexander-A-city-is-not-a-tree.pdf

https://patterns.architexturez.net/doc/az-cf-173046

The Theory of Loose Parts: An Important Principle for Design Methodology

https://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/SDEC/article/view/1204/1171

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YChM3MDrZdg

Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_Strategies

@gordonbrander, @DavidSHolz

@gordonbrander: A practical example of how meaning-projection can be mechanistically provoked in the creative process.

https://www.pangaro.com/pask/Pask-Conversation_Theory-(Complete).pdf

http://augmentingcognition.com/assets/Kay1977.pdf

@andy_matuschak, @maxkriegers

Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, and Shlomo Angel

A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)

https://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Language-Buildings-Construction-Environmental/dp/0195019199

https://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs137/readings/Gibson-AFF.pdf

https://www.eecg.utoronto.ca/~jzhu/csc326/readings/iverson.pdf

@andy_matuschak

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCm9ym6D1Oc

https://www.amazon.com/Orality-Literacy-30th-Anniversary-Accents/dp/0415538386

@andy_matuschak, @mtraven, @viveka

The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think In Action

https://www.amazon.com/Reflective-Practitioner-Professionals-Think-Action/dp/0465068782

https://www.amazon.com/True-Names-Vernor-Vinge/dp/0312944446

For its use of metaphor-based computing.

The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think In Action

https://www.amazon.com/Reflective-Practitioner-Professionals-Think-Action/dp/0465068782

@viveka, @maxkreminski

http://worrydream.com/refs/Latour%20-%20Visualisation%20and%20Cognition.pdf

Doing With Images Makes Symbols: Communicating with Computers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2LZLYcu_JY

@anurajenp, @hamish_todd

Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores

Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design

https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Computers-Cognition-Foundation-Design/dp/0201112973

@recardona, @mcolacino

http://worrydream.com/refs/Nelson-ComputerLibDreamMachines1975.pdf

@andy_matuschak, @mekarpeles

Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human-Machine Communication (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives)

https://www.amazon.com/Plans-Situated-Actions-Human-Machine-Communication/dp/0521331374

Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privelege of Partial Perspective

https://cds.cern.ch/record/369245/files/dd-89-001.pdf

@andy_matuschak

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~afb21/CognitiveDimensions/papers/Green1989.pdf

@geoffreylitt, @wcrichton

https://www.dgsiegel.net/files/refs/Kay%20-%20User%20Interface:%20A%20Personal%20View.pdf

https://www.amazon.com/Symbols-that-Stand-Themselves-Wagner/dp/0226869296

https://www.amazon.com/Technopoly-Surrender-Technology-Neil-Postman/dp/0679745408

@andy_matuschak

Gordon Pask and Gerard de Zeeuw

A Small Matter of Programming: Perspectives on End User Computing

https://www.amazon.com/Small-Matter-Programming-Perspectives-Computing/dp/026228040X

@maxkreminski, @jasoncrawford

https://www.amazon.com/Gesture-Speech-October-Books-Leroi-Gourhan/dp/0262121735

I haven't read it myself, but I've heard a lot of good things about it.

https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Comics-Invisible-Scott-McCloud/dp/006097625X

@andy_matuschak, @maxkreminski

Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes In The Age Of The Machine

https://www.amazon.com/Things-That-Make-Smart-Attributes/dp/0201626950

https://www.amazon.com/Poetics-Space-Gaston-Bachelard/dp/0807064734

@meekaale, @viveka

Wouldn't try to make people read it, but it has good quotes to use as jumping points for discussion.

The Children's Machine: Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer

https://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Machine-Rethinking-School-Computer/dp/0465010636

https://www.amazon.com/How-Buildings-Learn-Happens-Theyre/dp/0140139966#:~:text=How%20Buildings%20Learn%20is%20a,to%20becoming%20artists%20of%20time.

Sue E. S. Crawford and Elinor Ostrom

https://www.amazon.com/Cognition-Wild-Bradford-Edwin-Hutchins/dp/0262581469

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1207/s15516709cog2102_3

Toward a Critical Technical Practice: Lessons Learned in Trying to Reform AI

https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/agre/critical.html

https://www.amazon.com/Computation-Human-Experience-Learning-Doing/dp/0521386039

Haven't finished yet.

https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Modern-Blacksmith-Alexander-Weygers/dp/0898158966

Andy Clark and David Chalmers

https://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/courses/concepts/clark.html

@andy_matuschak

Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology

https://www.amazon.com/Tools-Thought-History-Mind-Expanding-Technology/dp/0262681153

@diego_lomanto, @BillSeitz

The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems

https://www.amazon.com/Humane-Interface-Directions-Designing-Interactive/dp/0201379376

https://www.amazon.com/Changing-Minds-Computers-Learning-Literacy/dp/0262541327

@geoffreylitt, @wcrichton, @qualmist

@qualmist: feel like diSessa's "Changing Minds" is slept on, especially its pragmatic discussion of how to grow new literacies.

https://arl.human.cornell.edu/linked%20docs/Illich_Tools_for_Conviviality.pdf

@borismus, @haig

https://www.amazon.com/Space-Place-Perspective-Yi-Fu-Tuan/dp/0816638772

https://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Education-Anna-Craft/dp/0826448631/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=9780826448637&linkCode=qs&qid=1615097482&s=books&sr=1-1

@viveka, @maxkreminski

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-574.pdf

@andy_matuschak

Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort (Editors)

https://www.amazon.com/New-Media-Reader-MIT-Press/dp/0262232278

@maxkreminski, @maxkriegers

https://www.amazon.com/Nonviolent-Communication-Language-Marshall-Rosenberg/dp/1892005034

@mmenegali: It has really changed the way I think about feelings, thoughts, conflicts and interactions with other people.

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity

https://www.amazon.com/Inmates-Are-Running-Asylum-Products/dp/0672326140

@andy_matuschak

https://www.amazon.com/Partial-Connections-Marilyn-Strathern/dp/0759107602

https://www.amazon.com/Accelerando-Singularity-Charles-Stross/dp/0441014151

For its exploration of exocortex and metacortex networks, and capitalism 2.0 group type structures.

David Williamson Shaffer and Katherine A. Clinton

https://thehangedman.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Toolforthoughts.pdf

@DWShaffer: A paper that provides a great overview (and enough cites for a great syllabus).

Amiria Henare, Martin Holbraad and Sari Wastell (Editors)

Thinking Through Things: Theorising Artefacts Ethnographically

https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Through-Things-Amiria-Henare/dp/1844720713

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24770168M/GLUT

The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe

https://www.amazon.com/Road-Reality-Complete-Guide-Universe/dp/0679776311

https://www.amazon.com/Art-Game-Design-Book-Lenses/dp/0123694965

@coponder, @DavidSHolz

@coponder: You wouldn't expect a textbook to be this wonderfully crafted and taking from so many different sources of inspiration.

Thomas Erickson and David W. McDonald (Editors)

HCI Remixed: Reflections on Works That Have Influence the HCI Community

http://www.csc.kth.se/utbildning/kth/kurser/DH3050/hcihist11/HCI_Remixed.pdf

Phil Husbands, Owen Holland and Michael Wheeler (Editors)

https://www.amazon.com/Mechanical-Mind-History-Phil-Husbands/dp/026225638X

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2722922/

"Anything Can Be an Instrument": Misuse Value and Rugged Consumerism in Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0dU4g7JID5xMTQ1YzUxMjAtMjMwZS00YzMyLTkzY2YtNDY0ZTA4ODZkY2U2/edit

https://www.amazon.com/Between-Saying-Doing-Analytic-Pragmatism/dp/0199585547

https://www.amazon.com/Evocative-Objects-Things-Think-Press/dp/0262516772

https://www.amazon.com/History-Mathematical-Notations-Dover-Mathematics/dp/0486677664

http://worrydream.com/ExplorableExplanations/

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/We-Really-Dont-Know-How-To-Compute/

https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Institutionally-Politics-Hugh-Heclo/dp/0199946000

https://jamesclear.com/great-speeches/inventing-on-principle-by-bret-victor

http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/

Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

https://www.amazon.com/How-Talk-Kids-Will-Listen-ebook/dp/B005GG0MXI#:~:text=How%20to%20Talk%20So%20Kids%20Will%20Listen%20and%20Listen%20So,improving%20relationships%20in%20your%20house.

The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

https://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Infinity-Explanations-Transform-World/dp/0143121359

http://worrydream.com/MediaForThinkingTheUnthinkable/

Replace "Inventing on Principle" with this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCZ3YgeEUPg

https://www.amazon.com/Intuition-Pumps-Other-Tools-Thinking-ebook/dp/B00BQ4NIFI/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Intuition+Pumps+and+Other+Tools+for+Thinking&qid=1615094882&s=books&sr=1-1

@ComplexWales, @maxgoldst

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_of_Fact,_the_Truth_of_Feeling

https://medium.com/the-truant-haruspex/end-user-computing-5367171478b7

https://www.amazon.com/Computers-Theatre-2nd-Brenda-Laurel/dp/0321918622

@viveka, @maxkreminski

https://www.amazon.com/Studies-Ethnomethodology-Philosophy-Social-Sciences/dp/1438446187

Specifically these case studies: following sketched maps; the reflexivity of rules in games; communicating meanings; the phenomenology of coffee tasting: lessons in practical objectivity.

Knowledge and Power in Prehistoric Societies: Orality, Memory and the Transmission of Culture

https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Power-Prehistoric-Societies-Transmission/dp/1107059372

@ChrisAldrich, @maxkriegers

Ethnography, anthropology, play, deconstruction, broadening outside the trap of platonism, cybernetics, computation. Tools that aren't electronic nor documents.

https://www.amazon.com/Unflattening-Nick-Sousanis/dp/0674744438

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZQoAKJPbh

Introduction to the Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems

https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/233

@durand_sinclair: Also, there's a difference between optimising one person's thinking vs optimising the thinking of a whole community. That is, are individuals thinking their own thoughts, or taking cues from those around them? So we need to understand complex systems.

https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Cybernetics-W-Ross-Ashby/dp/1614277656

The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter

https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Our-Success-Evolution-Domesticating/dp/0691166854

@bschne: Henrich's "The Secret of Our Success" is pretty sprawling but has some great passages on how culture and the technological inventions it brings about can give humans new mental toolkits that then allow them to think differently even without having said inventions at hand. (One of the go-to examples is how, once the abacus is invented, you can then visualize one and use it as a mental tool even if you don't have one at hand)

https://mek.fyi/essays/universal-knowledge/on-books