The Wall and the Bridge: Fear and Opportunity in Disruption’s Wake
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/mba-students-against-capitalism/621117/?utm_source=feed
“Adam Smith’s invisible hand seems invisible because it’s not there,”
https://bookshop.org/books/the-wall-and-the-bridge-fear-and-opportunity-in-disruption-s-wake/9780300259087
What is a “book” in the age of the web? (Part 1 of 5) : https://hughmcguire.medium.com/what-is-a-book-in-the-age-of-the-web-part-1-of-5-3a529701e0df
The Anti-Library :
Surfacing My Anti-Library : https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2021/02/surfacing-my-anti-library/
Building an antilibrary: the power of unread books : https://nesslabs.com/antilibrary
Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Oprah Winfrey All Use the 5-Hour Rule
Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Oprah Winfrey All Use the 5-Hour Rule
How To Write A Book: “Ego Is The Enemy” – By Ryan Clark Holiday
The End of Competitive Advantage: How to Keep Your Strategy Moving as Fast as Your Business
https://vpl.bibliocommons.com/search?q=The%20End%20of%20Competitive%20Advantage:%20How%20to%20Keep%20Your%20Strategy%20Moving%20as%20Fast%20as%20Your%20Business%20&t=keyword
Introduction, Chapter 1 & 2” in Local Dollars, Local Sense: How to Shift Your Money from Wall Street to Main Street and Achieve Real Prosperity, by Michael Shuman, Chelsea Green Publishing (2012).
“Local Living Economies” in The Encyclopedia of Sustainability, by Michael Shuman, Berkshire Publishing Group (2012).
“Relocalizing Business” Page 110 in 2010 State of the World: Transforming Cultures From Consumerism to Sustainability, by Michael Shuman, W. W. Norton & Company (2010).
“The Competitiveness of Local Living Economies,” in The Post-‐Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises by Michael Shuman with Richard Heinberg & Daniel Lerch, eds., Healdsburg, CA: Watershed Media (2010).
There are literally hundreds of books on the topic of community economic development. Among those that the instructor has found particularly compelling and that you might read before or after the course are the following:
Michael Abelman, Fields of Plenty (2005)
Wendell Berry, Home Economics (1987) and The Unsettling of America (1977)
David Boyle and Andrew Simms, The New Economics (2009)
Amy Cortese, Locavesting (2011)
Herman Daly, Steady-‐state Economics (1977) and (with John Cobb Jr.), For the Common Good (1989)
Richard Douthwaite, Short Circuit (1996)
Paul Ekins, ed., The Living Economy (1986)
Lyle Estill, Small Is Possible (2008)
Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class (2004)
Thomas Greco, The End of Money and the Future of Civilization (2009)
Paul Hawken, The Ecology of Commerce (1993) and (with Amory & Hunter Lovins), Natural Capitalism (1999)
Colin Hines (with Tim Lang), The New Protectionism (1993)
Jane Jacobs, The Economy of Cities (1969) and Cities and the Wealth of Nations (1984)
Marjorie Kelly, The Divine Right of Capital (2001)
David Korten, When Corporations Rule the World (1995) and Agenda for New Economy (2009)
James Kunstler, The Long Emergency (2005) and The Geography of Nowhere (1993)
Greg LeRoy, The Great American Jobs Scam (2005)
Amory Lovins, Soft Energy Paths (1976)
Bill McKibben, Deep Economy (2007)
Stacy Mitchell, Big Box Swindle (2006)
David Morris, Neighborhood Power: The New Localism (1974) and Self-‐Reliant Cities (1982)
Thomas Michael Power, Environmental Protection and Economic Well-‐Being (1996)
Kirkpatrick Sale, Human Scale (1980)
E. F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful (1973)
Woody Tasch, Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money (2009)
Book Structure Made Visible
“By my definition, originality involves introducing and advancing an idea that’s relatively unusual within a particular domain, and that has the potential to improve it.”
The faults in defaults. “To get Firefox or Chrome, you have to demonstrate some resourcefulness and download a different browser. Instead of accepting the default, you take a bit of initiative to seek out an option that might be better. And that act of initiative, however tiny, is a window into what you do at work.”
“The hallmark of originality is rejecting the default and exploring whether a better option exists.”
“Regardless of political ideologies, when a candidate seemed destined to win, people liked him more. When his odds dropped, they liked him less.”
“Entrepreneurs who kept their day jobs had 33 percent lower odds of failure than those who quit.”
“Having a sense of security in one realm gives us the freedom to be original in another.”
“The biggest barrier to originality is not idea generation—it’s idea selection.”
“When it comes to idea generation, quantity is the most predictable path to quality.”
“Our intuitions are only accurate in domains where we have a lot of experience.”
“Power involves exercising control or authority over others; status is being respected and admired.”
“To form alliances with opposing groups, it’s best to temper the cause, cooling it as much as possible. Yet to draw allies into joining the cause itself, what’s needed is a moderately tempered message that is neither too hot nor too cold, but just right.”
“In general, we tend to be overconfident about our own invulnerability to harm.”
Some lessons on groupthink. “The evidence suggests that social bonds don’t drive groupthink; the culprits are overconfidence and reputational concerns.”
“Bridgewater has prevented groupthink by inviting dissenting opinions from every employee in the company.”
The positive power of negative thinking. “Most people assume it’s better to be a strategic optimist than a defensive pessimist. Yet Norem finds that although defensive pessimists are more anxious and less confident in analytical, verbal, and creative tasks, they perform just as well as strategic optimists.”
— Adam Grant, Originals How Non-Conformists Move The World
Schopenhauer on The Art of Not Reading.
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