The back to basics book looks awesome, will prolly buy that. Homesteadonomics looks like something along the lines of what I want too. The others not so much, too much tech.

I recommend ctrl+f'ing Technological Slavery/ISAIF to the section titled 'Two Types of Technology' and read points 207-212 (this will take like 2 minutes, it's a few short paragraphs and well worth it to learn the conception and distinction of small-scale and organization-dependent technologies). I am essentially attempting to learn skills and build things that will be available regardless of what happens. For example with wood and simple metal tools, no electricity etc. Pre-industrial level of complexity and only basic materials that I could easily source myself if for example I was teleported to a desert island, or a SHTF situation etc.

These kinds of simple DIY projects also are meditative for me, whereas working with jigsaws and other power tools isn't. There's practical uses with them and I use them all the time for stuff, but I like the LARP feeling of using the kind of tools ancient, medieval etc people used. Also big agree on the primitive channels, they're somewhat entertaining sometimes but it's just useless entertainment. I'm more interested in tutorial kind of stuff that teaches cheap, effective, low/no tech ways of getting basic day to day shit done as well as slightly loftier stuff like how to build your home suited to your particular climate (this is a subject WrathOfGnon has gone into some detail on for example).