Read some books that make you uncomfortable about being a designer. Books that challenge the modern western narrative of a problematic world waiting to be solved help us understand the larger structures that use design.

• Isaiah Berlin: Four Essays on Liberty
• Frantz Fanon: The Wretched of the Earth
• Charles Jencks: The Language of Post-Modern Architecture
• Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari: A Thousand Plateaus
• James C. Scott: Seeing Like A State

Sorry for the lack of diversity in that list. If anyone has suggestions for political theory or design/architectural criticism not written by white men, I'd be excited to add them to my bookshelf.