A bunch of UST-adjacent essays (and one novel) that are good
Request: if edited down, we don’t do so in the same document / by deleting entries here; it’d be good to have the full list available

Peter Watts
http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
http://www.rifters.com/real/shorts/PeterWatts_Atwood.pdf

Nick Szabo
http://szabo.best.vwh.net/shell.html
http://szabo.best.vwh.net/synch.html

David Chapman/Meaningness
https://meaningness.com/metablog/stem-fluidity-bridge
https://meaningness.com/metablog/geeks-mops-sociopaths
https://buddhism-for-vampires.com/lovecraft-harman-nihilism
https://meaningness.com/metablog/upgrade-your-cargo-cult

Kevin Simler
http://www.meltingasphalt.com/personhood-a-game-for-two-or-more-players/ 
http://www.meltingasphalt.com/ux-and-the-civilizing-process/

Venkatesh Rao
http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-big-little-idea-called-legibility/
http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2007/12/16/sapir-whorf-lakoff-metaphor-and-thought/ (recommend as an...

The familiar texts and frameworks supported all courses: Aristotle’s Appeals, Dewey’s  “Experience”, Norman’s Design of Everyday Things, McDonough & Braungart’s Cradle to Cradle, Buchanan’s Four Orders, and even his “cross of pain.” At times pretty dense, but through proper scaffolding and course integration, undergraduates were able to build the right muscles for design inquiry.