Books of Note
I love books, and I love recommending books. But I never know where to start. Here's eight books that have changed my mind or taught me something that I use every day. You should read them! If you want.
In a previous life, I used to build internet and go by Kyle Neath. These days I go by Kyle Aster and spend my time investing in my local community and creating interesting things in our built environment.
January 15, 2023
Recently I've been reflecting on some of my favorite things from last year. Maybe as a way to focus on the positive. Maybe as a way to keep track of time in our time sick world. Maybe just to get back into the habit of writing. So here's some of my favorite reads of 2022.
March 30, 2022
Over the past two years, I've been learning SketchUp and collaborating with some local builders to design a house of my dreams.
November 30, 2021
What if you didn't want to ignore human-caused climate change? How can you use money to offset your emissions? What am I doing about it?
September 29, 2021
We aren't going to limit warming to 2.0˚C through emissions reduction, and there isn't a credible reason to believe we have a path to reduce emissions at all over the next few decades. The gap between what is necessary and what is feasible is so large as to be effectively meaningless. So where does that leave us?
September 01, 2021
For those of you who don’t know, I own an old high elevation cow camp in the Sierra Nevadas with my friend David. It’s home to a 99 year old hand-hewn log cabin, a chainsaw milled post & beam horse barn, and a few smaller bunk houses. It’s been a source of great joy and fulfillment over the years. We call it Leaping Daisy, or sometimes just The Ranch.
April 23, 2020
Toward a More Resilient Future
It's been about seventeen years now that this website has been my little corner of the internet. It's gone through a few different iterations in those years — some sarcastic, some serious, and some arbitrarily personal. Many of those iterations are lost to poorly exported databases, absolute positioning, and the whims of archive.org. So it goes.
I love books, and I love recommending books. But I never know where to start. Here's eight books that have changed my mind or taught me something that I use every day. You should read them! If you want.
