Dave Guarino Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Dave Guarino on XBuilding software leverage on the social safety net. Built https://t.co/6YGx9KQRSr @codeforamerica for 5 years. "Are you the fax machine guy in Recoding America?"

The Creative ACT: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin@clearerworld Rick Rubin's "The Creative Act" https://t.co/eQrmOLwZzx
Hardcover, 2023
$32.00Member price:$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Fifth Season
N. K. JemisinUpside: finished The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin. (I liked it! Should I continue into books 2 and 3?)
Paperback, 2015
$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia
James C. ScottAside—I've read far too much James C. Scott [1] in my life to *not* have some internalized sense of how to respond to moves like Twitter's right now. Ironically, I'd say, it is a weak center in decline. [1] Weapons of the Weak, The Art of Not Being Governed, in addition to SLaS
Paperback, 2010
$26.95Member price:$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dinner: Changing the Game: A Cookbook
Melissa ClarkYes! Honestly 3 books have been really key to me: 1. Salt Fat Acid Heat is the core of the "how" (not really recipes per se, but methods [more useful]) 2. Masala Lab (also methods) 3. Melissa Clark's Dinner — consistently good recipes https://t.co/6qSsMHDCMN
Hardcover, 2017
$35.00Member price:$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
Jennifer PahlkaEnjoyed the @BloombergBeta book debut event of @pahlkadot's "Recoding America" in convo with @roybahat https://t.co/OqO8DViS7o This book does a good job at making seen many of the rudiments underneath when and how I've seen govt programs fail.
Hardcover, 2023
$31.99Member price:$15.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Anthony BourdainHighly recommend having the audiobook of Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential on while cooking (ESPECIALLY if you’re learning to cook) A deeply satisfying entanglement of contexts and media
Paperback, 2007
$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
James C. ScottAs an AI language model I cannot condense all of James C. Scott’s Seeing Like A State into a tweet. It is too elegant and insightful a work.
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Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance
James C. ScottAside—I've read far too much James C. Scott [1] in my life to *not* have some internalized sense of how to respond to moves like Twitter's right now. Ironically, I'd say, it is a weak center in decline. [1] Weapons of the Weak, The Art of Not Being Governed, in addition to SLaS
Paperback, 1987
$26.00Member price:$26.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)