I've been going through @Meaningness's further reading list at https://meaningness.com/further-reading recently-ish and granted I've been picking and choosing heavily but so far they've basically all been winners.
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I read Finding Our Sea-Legs a little while back, and it neatly tied together three different interests of mine (ethics, phenomenology, storytelling as collaborative hermeneutics) very nicely. It's short, approachable, and I keep coming back to it.
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I read Bly's "Little Book on the Human Shadow" yesterday and I like it a lot, but I'm not totally clear on *why*. I don't know if I'll be able to put its ideas into action, because it's not quite that sort of book, but I'll definitely return to it. Also spawned follow up reading.
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Now reading "Talking about Machines" and I'm more than a little surprised that this isn't more widely known about software developers. It's readable, relatable, and helps make sense of a bunch of professional contexts.
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The Xerox Eureka project that came out of it was hugely influential for a few years around 2000. It made “knowledge management” a buzzword. Predictably, the management consulting industry came in and fucked it up. Also PARC got basically nuked so that source of momentum died.
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Also, Orr’s opinion was that, although the corp did very reluctantly implement something, they missed most of the opportunity that he pointed out. They explicitly hated the idea of empowering field techs and tried to limit that as much as possible.
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Although Project Eureka came out of his work, it was not what he envisioned, and he was barred from having input into it. (There was intense internal PARC politics around this that I was very tangentially involved with at the time.)
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This is going to be a case study in the Eggplant book :)
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