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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Replying to @DRMacIver
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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Yeah, but programmers read all sorts of less relevant stuff (or *say* they do). I guess what I'm really thinking is the "Books programmers read in order to pretend they're intellectuals" canon. e.g. Godel Escher Bach, Seeing Like A State, How Buildings Learn. Probably others.
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I would love to see this added to that list!
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