Curated Mind
Books and thinkers that shaped my worldview
Decolonization is not a metaphor
Eve Tuck, K. Wayne Yang
Seminal argument that decolonization requires material repatriation, not metaphor.
The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon
Foundational text on decolonization, violence, and the psychology of oppression.
The Souls of Black Folk
W.E.B. Du Bois
Classic essays on double-consciousness and the color line in America.
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Paulo Freire
Revolutionary approach to education as a practice of freedom and liberation.
Black Geographies and the Politics of Place
Edited by Katherine McKittrick, Clyde Adrian Woods
Foundational collection mapping Black spatial thought and the politics of place.
The Case for Reparations
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Seminal essay tracing redlining, predatory contracts, and a case for reparations.
How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi
Defining racism and antiracism through personal narrative and structural analysis.
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
Angela Davis
Connecting struggles for Black liberation, Palestinian freedom, and global justice.
The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander
Mass incarceration as a racial caste system in the age of colorblindness.
Race and surveillance
Simone Browne
Links racialized surveillance to everyday sorting and control.
Discipline and Punish
Michel Foucault
How modern institutions create docile bodies through surveillance and discipline.
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Erving Goffman
How we perform identity through social interactions and impression management.
The Open Society and Its Enemies
Karl Popper
Defense of liberal democracy against authoritarianism and historicism.
The Almanack of Charlie Munger
Charlie Munger
Mental models and wisdom from one of history's great thinkers.
Deep Work
Cal Newport
The power of focused work in a distracted world.
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Greg McKeown
Focus on what truly matters by eliminating the trivial many.
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
Adam Grant
Challenging beliefs and embracing the joy of being wrong.
The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less
Richard Koch
How 80% of results come from 20% of efforts—and how to leverage this.
Guiding Quotes
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Justice
"The function of freedom is to free someone else."
FreedomSolidarity
"If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine."
SolidarityJustice
"Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings."
JusticeResponsibility
"When we identify where our privilege intersects with somebody else's oppression, we'll find our opportunities to make real change."
AwarenessChange
"Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs."
Equality
"The death penalty is not about whether people deserve to die for the crimes they commit. The real question is, Do we deserve to kill?"
JusticeResponsibility
"To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind."
CompassionResponsibility
"I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better."
Change
"A just society is that society in which ascending sense of reverence and descending sense of contempt is dissolved into the creation of a compassionate society."
EqualityCompassion