I was not always a reader. Growing up I actually loathed reading. If I could find a way to do something to learn, I would much rather be active than sedentary. I learned to love reading in 6th grade and for decades I read mostly fiction. Recently, as I’ve started to take a greater interest in finding ways to improve the world around me, rather than just survive it, I have returned to reading as a source of continual exploration and growth.

Note Where possible I link directly to the publisher for books, or to the wikipedia page. If you would like to read them I recommend checking your local library, supporting a local bookstore, or ordering through the author’s site.

Nonfiction

My Publications (Chronologically)

• Position: In-House Evaluation Is Not Enough. Towards Robust Third-Party Evaluation and Flaw Disclosure for General-Purpose AI, 2025
• Exploring Subjective Notions of Explainability through Counterfactual Visualization of Sentiment Analysis, 2024
• Book Review: Big Data, Big Design: Why Designers Should Care about Artificial Intelligence, 2023

Critical Reads

• Sand Talk; How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World, Tyson Yunkaporta
• Thinking in Systems, Donella Meadows
• An Introduction to Systems Safety Engineering, Nancy Leveson
• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Shoshana Zuboff
• This is How they Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race, Nicole Perlroth
• Race after Technology: Abolinist Tools for the New Jim Code, Ruha Benjamin
• Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, Safiya Umoja Noble
• Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, Cathy O’Neil
• Design Justice: Community-Led Practicies to Build the Worlds We Need, Sasha Costanza-Chock
• The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World, Pedro Domingos

Works that have inspired me

• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Edward Tufte
• Sickness unto Death, Søren Kierkegaard
• I and Thou, Martin Buber
• Existentialism and Human Emotions, John Paul Sartre

Backlog

• All Too Human, Anne McLaughlin
• Data Feminism, Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein
• The Costs of Connection, Nick Couldry and Ulises A Mejias
• Value Sensitive Design: Shaping Technology with Moral Imagination, Batya Friedman and David G. Henry

Noteworthy Mentions

• The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good?, Michael J. Sandel
• The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - but Some Don’t, Nate Silver