What are some books, videos, articles, papers, and essays you've revisited over and over, perhaps for many years?
-
Show this thread
-
For me, a few examples: Wilson Miner's "When We Build", which changed how I think about design:https://vimeo.com/34017777
1 reply 9 retweets 106 likesShow this thread -
Alex Roman's astonishing CG film "The Third and the Seventh":https://vimeo.com/7809605
1 reply 4 retweets 45 likesShow this thread -
Vernor Vinge's "Across Realtime", "A Fire Upon the Deep", "A Deepness in the Sky", and "Rainbows End".
2 replies 0 retweets 31 likesShow this thread -
C. J. Cherryh's book "Cyteen", about attempts to replicate human personality.
1 reply 1 retweet 18 likesShow this thread -
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.
4 replies 1 retweet 29 likesShow this thread -
I can't walk three blocks in a new city without thinking of Jane Jacobs' book "The Death and Life of Great American Cities"
1 reply 1 retweet 43 likesShow this thread -
Seymour Papert's amazing book "Mindstorms", which I think of as being about the design of powerful immersive environments for creative work
1 reply 1 retweet 35 likesShow this thread -
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 …
4 replies 10 retweets 36 likesShow this thread
"managing commons" should be "government managing the commons". The dichotomy which Ostrom very nicely smashes is between government and the market.
-
-
I sometimes think of Ostrom as the best piece I've ever read on open source software. Which is pretty good, considering it was published in 1990, before Linux had even been announced...
2 replies 0 retweets 12 likesShow this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.