The industrial loom didn't make cloth the same as made by hand. All machine made cloth is worst than the best weavers could make.
The cloth was just okay, and could be made faster and at scale and then sold.
Now you can't buy cloth to the standard it used to be made.
Sorry for your loss. You might find helpful to talk walks in nature. Grief support groups are very useful. Many people also find volunteering helpful, as it involves helping people and being around people (and sometimes animals). Schedule some sort of plan for yourself with times for being social, helping people, art and being outside. Please avoid isolating yourself. Good luck.
I enjoyed all these. All of them are worth a read.
Business / Tech
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance.
Are Your Lights On?: How to Figure Out What the Problem Really Is.
Managing Expectations: Working with People Who Want More: Working with People Who Want More, Better, Faster, Sooner, Now!
Explore It!: Reduce Risk and Increase Confidence with Exploratory Testing.
Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime-From Global Epidemic to Your Front Door.
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy.
Badass: Making Users Awesome.
Social Engineering in IT Security: Tools, Tactics, and Techniques.
How to Make Sense of Any Mess: Information Architecture for Everybody.
Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great.
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.
The Global War for Internet Governance.
Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking.
Hate Crimes in Cyberspace.
High Noon: The Inside Story of Scott McNealy and the Rise of Sun Microsystems.
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success.
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet.
The Soul of A New Machine.
Hot Spots: Why Some Companies Buzz with Energy and Innovation - And Others Don't.
A Computer Called LEO: Lyons Tea Shops and the World's First Office Computer.
Power Failure: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron.
The Mesh: Why the Future of Business is Sharing.
What's Mine Is Yours: How Collaborative Consumption is Changing the Way We Live.
Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life.
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking.
The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network.
The Undersea Network (Sign, Storage, Transmission).
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor.
Meaningful: The Story of Ideas That Fly.
Zero Bugs and Program Faster.
Official Criticism Manual: Perfecting the Art of Giving and Receiving Criticism.
Hacking Wireless Access Points: Cracking, Tracking, and Signal Jacking.
Usability Testing Essentials: Ready, Set...Test!
Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management.
The Accidental Project Manager.
Building Successful Communities of Practice.
Card Sorting: Designing Usable Categories.
More Fearless Change: Strategies for Making Your Ideas Happen.
Security and Usability: Designing Secure Systems that People Can Use.
Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet.
The Well: The Epic History of the First Online Community.
Programmers at Work.
Science
The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy
Darwin's Ghosts: In Search of the First Evolutionists
The Dinosaur Hunters: A True Story of Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Prehistoric World
Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
Hidden Figures
Prometheans in the Lab: Chemistry and the Making of the Modern World
Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey into Seeing in Three Dimensions
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Knocking On Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate our Universe
Sightlines
An Ocean of Air: A Natural History of the Atmosphere
Snowball Earth: The Story of the Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know it
Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error: The Meaning of Error in an Age of Certainty
Mycophilia
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science Of Life In Space
No Logo
King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry
The Ghosts Of Evolution Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners, And Other Ecological Anachronisms
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
Growing Up Boeing: The Early Jet Age Through the Eyes of a Test Pilot's Daughter
Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor
Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 bath Toys Lost at Sea
Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science
World / Politics / Other
Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power
The New Jim Crow
The Market for Force: The Consequences of Privatizing Security
Imaginary Weapons: A Journey Through the Pentagon's Scientific Underworld
Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion
The irregulars : Roald Dahl and the British spy ring in wartime Washington
Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing
The Gift of Fear
People like the book 'Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems'. You could take a look at Netflix's info and tools. They break their system themselves to ensure it recovers well. It would help if you indicated which meaning of resilient you use?
I'd recommend reading the PM canon, its useful even if you just want to work better with them. Don't know the canon, find out. What books/podcasts do all the PM's you know own and listen to?
You could get the cert (PMBOK). Certs can mean the difference between someone taking a chance on you or not.
Ask the PM's/BA's in your company for advice (you can word it as your friend/kid is interested).
Another useful thing is to look at job ad's, what are they asking for, do you have those skills? Can you demonstrate them?
Whatever other options you take, also arrange to get a counselor / therapist. Consider it an investment in your mental health. Adjusting to meeting more people is stressful and they will support you through it. You will also improve your personality (no matter where you start with, knowing yourself helps).