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First go at a meta/fluid/whatever reading list: The Listening Society In Over Our Heads Seeing Nature In the Cells of the Eggplant (once it exists!) Reinventing Organisations Seeing That Frees The Social Singularity An Immanent Metaphysics The Evolving Self Thinking in Systems

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Oct 27, 2018

Special mention goes to recommendations from others, and books I haven't had a chance to look into much yet to know whether the fit the bill: More Studies in Ethnomethodology From Margin to Center Sources of the Self ...probs some 80s philosophy too.

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forget reading. practice. contemplate. introspect. worth 10k books.

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*weeeoooeee* CULT INDOCTRINATION POLICE *weeeoooeee* RUN YA THUGS *weeeoooeee*

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Reading is awesome and the burden of proof for saying "X is more useful" is the size of Everest. And more difficult to climb. Books are not good for climbing on.

1:22 AM · Oct 28, 2018Twitter Web Client

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I like both positions. I think it's true to say both that I've already read more than I'll ever be able to apply, that applying what I've already read would likely yield greater return than merely reading something new, and that I shouldn't stop looking where I've not yet looked.

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My position is "reading is good for you," not "reading is superior to <given alternative". It's much harder to make the reverse case for either statement, however.

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