Stan's Influences
| Author | Items | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Anderson, Elijah | A Place on the Corner
Code of the Street Streetwise Cosmopolitan Canopy, The |
Ethnographic books on race relations. I was introduced to Prof. Anderson while he was at Penn. |
| Andrews, David | IRG Solution, The | Posits the idea of "Information Routing Group" as an alternative to hierarchical social media. |
| Ashby, W. Ross | Design for a Brain | Prof Ashby provides a clue as to what it takes to manage something. |
| Beer, Stafford | Heart of Enterprise, The | |
| Brill, Steven | Tailspin | The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-year Fall - and Those Fighting to Reverse It. |
| Diamandis, Peter & Kotler, Steven | Abundance | The Future is Better Than You Think |
| Victor, Larry | Nuets Nodes | Larry Victor - Nuets Nodes |
| Friedman, Thomas L | World Is Flat, The | |
| Greco, Thomas H. Jr. | End Of Money and the Future Of Civilization, The | |
| Hawken, Paul | Drawdown
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The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed To Reverse Global Warming |
| Gladwell, Malcolm | Tipping Point, The | How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference |
| Godin, Seth | Tribes | We Need You To Lead Us |
| Zinn, Howard | A People's History of the United States | |
| Zuboff, Shoshana | Age of Surveillance Capitalism, The | |
| Mackinnon, Rebecca | Consent of the Networked | |
| Wicks, Judy | Good Morning Beautiful Business | |
| Lakey, George | Viking Economics | |
| Mitteldorf, Josh & Sagan, Darion | Cracking The Aging Code | The new science of growing old - and what it means for staying young |
| Phillips, Michael | Seven Laws of Money, The | http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Commerce/RATNA/june2.html |
| Phillips, Michael & Rasberry, Salli | Honest Business | A Superior Strategy for Starting and Managing Your Own Business |
| Plexus Institute | Unexpected Gifts | Solve Tough Problems With Adaptive Positive Deviance |
| Price, Ben G. | How Wealth Rules the World – Ben G. Price | The most important climate book since Silent Spring |
| Brown, Ellen | Web of Debt, The
Public Bank Solution, The Banking on the People |
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| Waldrop, M. Mitchell | Complexity | The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos |
| Dawkins, Richard | Selfish Gene, The | |
| Toffler, Alvin | Future Shock | |
| Block, Peter | Answer To How Is Yes, The | |
| Block, Peter | Stewardship - Choosing Service Over Self-Interest |
This page will eventually hold a list of books and other sources that I have found useful in guiding my thinking... (Stan)