Below, you’ll find many of my recommended resources, usually books, for creativity, leadership, well-being and business. You’ll find me on Substack, Instagram, or LinkedIn. I’m also on Goodreads!
Plein-Air Newsletters
Several book recommendations are featured in my newsletter, and here they are listed for ease of browsing:
27/06/2023: Five iconic writing and creativity guides 🖊️
Bird By Bird by Ann Lamott
On Writing by Stephen King
Writing Down The Bones by Natalie Goldberg
Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
20/06/2023: Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
23/05/2023: Resilience
The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power by Katherine Morgan Schafler
16/05/2023: Deciphering the A-Z of ethical labels
Understanding Human Values: Individual and Societal by Milton Rokeach
Start With Why by Simon Sinek
12/05/2023: Weekly Connection 03
Upstream by Dan Heath
05/05/2023: Weekly Connection 02
Scarcity by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Sha
02/05/2023: May Day
Rest is Resistance by Tricia Hersey
28/04/2023: Weekly Connection 01
Hype Yourself: A no-nonsense P.R. toolkit for small businesses by Lucy Werner
25/04/2023: What’s your shape at work?
What Colour Is Your Parachute by Richard Nelson Bolles
Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono
Book recommendations
Here are a few of my favourite reads that have been organised by topic:
Creativity
- The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life by Twyla Tharp
- Show Your Work!: 10 Ways To Share Your Creativity And Get Discovered by Austin Kleon
- The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
- Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them by Francine Prose
Working well
- Radical Candor: How to Get What You Want by Saying What You Mean by Kim Scott
- Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation by Tim Brown
Perspectives
- Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count by Oliver Burkeman
- Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
- Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
Content and design
- Universal Methods of Design: 100 Ways to Research Complex Problems, Develop Innovative Ideas, and Design Effective Solutions by Bruce Hanington and Bella Martin
- Good Services: How to design services that work by Lou Downe
- The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
- User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design are Changing the Way We Live, Work & Play by Cliff Kuang
- Writing Is Designing: Words and the User Experience by Michael J. Metts and Andy Welfe
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