Resources and Reading

This is a select collection of resources and readings that have been informative and thought provoking.

RECOMMENDED READING

A Mathematician’s Lament: On art and education

The Mondragon Model: A long-term and sustainable model for creating new enterprises and spreading wealth

BOOKS: NON-FICTION

Charlie Fink’s Metaverse- an AR Enabled Guide to VR and AR, by Charlie Fink
Entrepreneur Revolution, by Daniel Priestley
Experiences on Demand, by Jeremy Bailenson
Society of the Spectacle, by Guy Deboard
How Google Works, by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg
How Nature Works, by Per Bak
Platform Revolution, by Geoffrey G. Parker et al.
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari
Shoe Dog: A Memoir, by the Creator of Nike, by Phil Knight
This is Your Brain on Music, by Daniel J. Levitin
Time Travel, by James Gleick
The Synthetic Age, by Christopher J. Preston
The Singularity Is Near, by Ray Kurzweil
Who Owns The Future, by Jaron Lanier
World Without Mind, The Threat Of Big Tech, by Franklin Foer
Tribe Of Mentors, by Timothy Ferriss
Zero to One, by Peter Thiel

BOOKS: SCI-FI and FICTION

A Scanner Darkly, by Philip K. Dick
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, by Philip K. Dick
Dark Matter, by Blake Crouch
Enders Game, by Orson Scott Card
Excession, by Iain Banks
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
Magic Street, by Orson Scott Card
The Dispatcher, by John Scalzi
The Giver, by Lois Lowry
The Martian, by Andy Weir
The Three-Bbody Problem trilogy, by Liu Cixin
We are Legion (We Are Bob), by Dennis E. Taylor

RESOURCES FOR VIRTUAL REALITY 

Unity: free download available

Substance Painter, by Allegorithmic

Facebook Spatial Workstation for spatial sound design

OPEN SOURCED SOFTWARE 

Draw.io

Draw.io is integrated diagramming that works with the collaboration tools you and your team are already using.
Gimp
This is the official website of the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP).

GIMP is a cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, OS X, Windows and more operating systems. It is free software, you can change its source code and distribute your changes.

Whether you are a graphic designer, photographer, illustrator, or scientist, GIMP provides you with sophisticated tools to get your job done. You can further enhance your productivity with GIMP thanks to many customization options and 3rd party plugins.