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A Deepness in the Sky, by Vernor Vinge, is an absolute delight

This book brought so much of that together.

I recommend his first, Shop Class as Soulcraft, even more highly.

Two standouts: The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction, by Matthew B. Crawford.

The second book is Drift into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems, by Sidney Dekker.

The Song of Wandering Aengus, by William Butler Yeats.