I'd also highly recommend the book "Shopcraft as Soulcraft" by Matthew Crawford. It's certainly not a classic like "Walden" or "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle M

I'd also highly recommend the book "Shopcraft as Soulcraft" by Matthew Crawford. It's certainly not a classic like "Walden" or "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", but I thoroughly enjoyed it, and found it very applicable to this type of philosophical discussion.