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
Conversation
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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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.
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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.
My position - reading has diminishing marginal returns, and given the sheer number of pages I’ve read already it’s rarely the highest ROI activity for me.
However, now it has highly variable returns, and some things are still very much worth reading.
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In order to read a book, it must:
1) be recommended to death by multiple minds I respect
2) be someone’s life’s work AND
3) continue to seem worth reading as I progress through it (I triage ruthlessly)
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