Here's a list of what I'm reading - by date, newest stuff first.
Mar-Apr 2025
Serviceberry - Robin Wall Kimmerer
Because I need to think differently about how we live together and she is great for that. Reciprocity and right relationship, community as real economy.
Right Story, Wrong Story: Adventures in Indigenous Thinking - Tyson Yunkaporta
Yunkaporta helps me see systems and ways to act to create possibilities - and see options for creating right relationship when I'm feeling angry.
Jan 2025
How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors Behind Every Successful Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration - Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner
I'm always thinking about big things and how to avoid doing them badly. My takeaways and questions for doing a big thing (infrastructure, processes, programs, etc.):
- Failure is common (95%!!!!) on big things!
- Expertise in context (technical, social, etc.) is essential. You cannot replace it or substitute for it, although you can combine experts on the parts of your project if no one has done a whole thing like this before. What expertise is needed on your project?
- Model. Draft draft draft draft and only when you are clear it will work because you've tried all the ways it can fail build it. Expertise will make this faster. What are the likely fails? What are the unlikely fails? How can you mitigate them?
- Modular = expertise + models + feasibility. What's the smallest whole unit you can create that will have integrity, which you can then use to build bigger things? (Think legos, but can be ideas or processes)
Older
No comments:
Post a Comment