For me, a few examples: Wilson Miner's "When We Build", which changed how I think about design:https://vimeo.com/34017777
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Alex Roman's astonishing CG film "The Third and the Seventh":https://vimeo.com/7809605
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Vernor Vinge's "Across Realtime", "A Fire Upon the Deep", "A Deepness in the Sky", and "Rainbows End".
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C. J. Cherryh's book "Cyteen", about attempts to replicate human personality.
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Julia Jaynes' very strange book on the origins of consciousness. It's almost certainly wrong, but it's a very interesting kind of wrong, and a remarkable endeavour.
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I can't walk three blocks in a new city without thinking of Jane Jacobs' book "The Death and Life of Great American Cities"
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Seymour Papert's amazing book "Mindstorms", which I think of as being about the design of powerful immersive environments for creative work
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Elinor Ostrom's wonderful (albeit sometimes dry) book "Governing the Commons", which shows that there need not be a tragedy of the commons, & that there is a third way beyond managing commons vs creating property rights & a market:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1159033827 …
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Richard Adams' terrifying "Watership Down": https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/943451418 …pic.twitter.com/58ICHGxeRj
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I'm asking because I find there are works that seem to almost compel rewatching / rereading. Any my theory is that there's usually extremely good reasons for that, something my unconscious is trying to tell me.
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I realize it's almost impossible not to engage in signalling, to describe the "right" books, videos etc. But there's something valuable in being forthright (at least with yourself!) about what you really find compelling, even if it's the "wrong" material, by conventional lights
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Those above are few of the things I've read or watched 5 or more times. I may add more later as I think of them. (The exceptions are Jaynes and Ostrom, which I've revisited, but mostly just find myself thinking about over and over.)
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Oh, for some more material not on the lists of things you "should" like: Bujold's books "Memory" and "Mirror Dance" and "A Civil Campaign"; the movies "Almost Famous", "The Game", "Titanic", and "Cloud Atlas". I find all compelling...
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Biographies I can't help revisiting over and over: Skidelsky on Keynes (get the abridged one volume, it's better than the full 3 volumes), and Gleick on Feynman.
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Imre Lakatos's amazing book "Proofs and Refutations", which is about how we make definitions. I realize that doesn't exactly sound like a page-turner, but it's another book that completely changed my life & thinking.
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