What’s feeding my curiosity.

A dying professor’s final lessons on how to actually live. It’s a short book, so I’ve been reading it slowly, reflecting on each of Morrie’s Tuesday lessons. It keeps reminding me of what really matters in life: connection and presence.

One of the books behind my love of fungi. Sheldrake follows the mycelium down into the soil and makes a persuasive case that it’s holding far more together than we tend to notice.

Proof that you can build a company without checking your values at the door. Another Escape, my old magazine, partnered with Patagonia for six years, and I’ve seen this philosophy hold up in the real world.

Robin Wall Kimmerer is a botanist and a Potawatomi elder, and she writes so beautifully about the living world as something we belong to, rather than something we’re here to take from. Gratitude and reciprocity run through every page.

A genuine page-turner about olive oil fraud that doubles as a meditation on provenance and trust. It landed at just the right moment, as I now spend part of my week as Creative Director for a regenerative olive oil company. It’s shaped how I think about telling the story of where food really comes from.

Proof that the stories we choose to tell shape how we see the world, and each other. Such an antidote to the doom and gloom of the news cycle we’re all constantly bombarded with.