suggested book reads
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order below is simply/mostly by order read..
[10 yrs on.. update: on many re reads.. finding most/all books as frustrat\ing books.. esp book on Ed.. as they now appear loaded w whalespeak.. so .. perpetuating.. rather than getting us out of .. tragedy of the non common/sea world]
[2022: two books]
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focusing fall 2011
37. At Work with Thomas Edison, Blaine McCormick – explains the culture we are trying to build at the be you house.
thomas jefferson education – video.
71. Leap of Faith, Memoirs of an Unexpected Life, Queen Noor, how communication changes everything
72. 40 Alternatives to College, James Altucher
73. The Intention Economy, Doc Searls, ch 21 ff – our quiet revolution in public ed
74. Miss, Sir, Are You Mad?, Shirley Knotte, age 11
75. The Start Up of You, Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha – rather than waiting for innovations to scale, let’s scale you
76. Better Than College, Blake Boles – we do have options
77. Be the Solution, Michael Strong & John Mackey – start up of you
79. Start Up Communities – Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City, Brad Feld – start up of city
80. Blah, Blah, Blah – What to Do When Words Don’t Work, Dan Roam – 75% of our sensory is visual – how to put form on flighty thinking
81. Too Big To Know, David Weinberger – difference between pyramid and network – foundation
82. Being Wrong, Kathryn Schulz –
83. The Innovative University, Clay Christensen, Henry Eyring
84. Creating Innovators, Tony Wagner
85. How We Decide, & Imagine: How Creativity Works, Jonah Lehrer
86. Mindstorms, Seymour Papert
87. Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Tech Civilization, Parag & Ayesha Khanna, – TED book
88. Hold on to Your Kids, Gordon Neufeld, Gabor Mate – attachment & authenticity – found in rereading – a very frustrating read
89. A New Earth, Eckart Tolle – how do you know you’re doing what you’re supposed to, because you are
90. Beyond the Hole in the Wall, Sugata Mitra; Nicholas Negropante – self-organized learning
91. Free-Range Kids, How to Raise Safe, Self-Reliant Children, Lenore Skenazy
92. Make Your Idea Matter, Bernadette Jiwa
93. Mind Amplifier, Howard Rheingold
94. Search Inside Yourself, Chade-Meng Tan – google guru
95. Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative, Austin Kleon
96. Turning Pro, Steven Pressfield
97. Unschooling, Astra Taylor
98. Why School, Will Richardson, TED
99. 11 Rules for Creating Value in the Social Era, Nilofer Merchant
100. Icarus Deception, Seth Godin – most rational thing to do, irrational art
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following not on slidedeck:
101. Hunger Games series (hunger games, catching fire, mockingjay)- Suzanne Collins
102. Divergent series (divergent, insurgent, allegiant) – Veronica Roth
103. Escape from Childhood – John Holt
104. Lives of Passion School of Hope, Rick Posner – longitudinal report of self-directed learners, from 35 yr old – Open School
105. Small is Beautiful, EF Schumacher – economy as if people mattered
106. Don’t Go Back to School, Kio Stark
107. Free to Learn, Peter Gray
108. Hack Your Education, Dale Stephens
109. In Defense of Childhood, Chris Mercogliano – protecting kids’ inner wildness
110. The Starfish and The Spider, Ori Brafman & Rod Beckstrom – the unstoppable power of leaderless organizations
111. Practically Radical, Bill Taylor
112. The Connected Company, Dave Gray
113. Lesterland, Lawrence Lessig
114. Leaving to Learn, Elliot Washor & Charlie Mosjowski
115. After Summerhill, Hussein Lucas
116. Everywhere All the Time: A New Deschooling Reader, Matt Hern – dang – history
117. Little Bets, Peter Sims (i haven’t yet read this.. was unschool mom recommend)
118. The Nature of the Future, Marina Gorbis
119. Life’s Operating Manual, Tom Shadyac
120. The Anti-Education Era, James Paul Gee
121. Choose Yourself, James Altucher
122. Present Shock, Douglas Rushkoff
123. Dead Aid, Dambisa Moyo
124. Making Ideas Happen, Scott Belsky
125. The LeapYear Project, Victor Saad
126. Leading from the Emerging Future, Otto Scharmer, Katrin Kaufer
127. Rewire, Ethan Zuckerman
128. Everything is Miscellaneous, David Weinberger
129. The Silenced Majority, Amy Goodman
130. Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill
131. Thinking Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
132. Learning From the Voices in My Head, Eleanor Longden
133. Knowmad Society, John Moravec, et al
134. Smarter Than You Think, Clive Thompson
135. Radical Openness, Don Tapscott – Macrowikinomics, Wikinomics
136. Invent to Learn, Sylvia Libow Martinez & Gary Stager
137. Hope for the Flowers, Trina Paulus (1977ish)
138. The Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein (1977ish)
139. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1977ish)
140. Tuesday’s With Morrie, For One More Day, Mitch Albom (2008ish)
141. The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs
142. The Legacy of John Holt, Pat Farenga, Kirsten Olson, Aaron Falbel, Jerry Mintz, …
143. Democracy at Work, Richard D. Wolff
144. Love Does, Bob Goff
145. Social Physics, Sandy Pentland
146. Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire (slow to the game, but oh – what perfect timing)
147. Natural Born Learners, Beatrice Ekwa Ekoko & Carlo Ricci
148. The Social Labs Revolution, Zaid Hassan
149. Sacred Economics, Charles Eisenstein
150. It’s Complicated, danah boyd
151. Networked, Barry Wellman and Lee Rainie
152. Against the Smart City, Adam Greenfield
153. Democratic Surround, Fred Turner
154. Silence, John Cage
155. The Zietgeist Movement Defined, Peter Joseph
156. The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible, Charles Eisentein
157. Republic, Lost, Lawrence Lessig
158. The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The IoT, the Collab Commons, Jeremy Rifkin
159. Life, Animated, Ron Suskind
160. The People’s Platform, Astra Taylor
161. Declaration, (and Commonwealth), Multitude, Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri – upon re readings of delcaration..adding to frustrat\ing books – esp on intellect ness around p 67
162. Suburban Nation, Andrés Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberg, & Jeff Speck
163. Walkable City, Jeff Speck
164. If Mayors Ruled the World, Benjamin Barber
165. The Desktop Regulatory State, Kevin Carson
166. Deep Economy, Bill McKibben
167. No Place to Hide, Glenn Greenwald
168. The Art of Self-Directed Learning, Blake Boles
169. The Play Ethic, Pat Kane
170. The Terrorist’s Son, Zak Ebrahim
171. This Changes Everything, Naomi Klein
172. The Black Swan, Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
173. The Filter Bubble, Eli Pariser
174. Where Good Ideas Come From, Steven Johnson
175. Profits over People, Noam Chomsky
176. From Bitcoin to Burning Man and Beyond, David Bollier .. via id cubed
177. The Monsters of Ed Tech, Audrey Watters
178. Daring Greatly, Brené Brown
179. Revolution, Russell Brand
180. You Are Not a Gadget, Jaron Lanier
181. A Path Appears, Nick Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn
182. Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson
183. High Price, Carl Hart
184. A People’s History, Howard Zinn
185. The Art of Asking, Amanda Palmer
186. Chasing the Scream, Johann Hari
187. The Promise of Politics, Hannah Arendt (a re read)
188. The Utopia of Rules, Debt, – anything from David Graeber
189. It’s Your Turn, Seth Godin
190. The Autistic Brain, Temple Grandin
191. Change the Story, Change the Future, David Korten
192. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
193. Theory of Value, David Graeber
194. Weaving the Web, Tim Berners-Lee
195. Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
196. So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, Psycopath Test, Jon Ronson
197. The Emperor of Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee
198. On the Move, Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks
199. A Grief Observed, CS Lewis
200. Reclaiming Conversation, Sherry Turkle (also frustrat\ing)
201. The Boy Who Could Change the World, Aaron Swartz post compilation
202. H is for Hawk, Helen MacDonald
203. Drawing Blood, Molly Crabapple
204. Emergence, Steven Johnson (3rd time around adding emergence as whalespeak – mostly frustrat\ing book)
205. Causal Powers of Social Structures, Dave Elder-Vass (also frustrat\ing)
206. Instrumental, James Rhodes
k.. so started making separate pages for author’s books.. wished i would have done that for all.. chip would have taken care of that.. or could do with simple order..
207. Twitter and Tear Gas, Zeynep Tufekci
208. Radical Technologies, Adam Greenfield
210. Writing My Wrongs, Shaka Senghor
211. Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit
212. Whiplash, Joi Ito and Jeff Howe
213. With Liberty & Justice for Some, Glenn Greenwald
214. City of Thorns, Ben Rawlence
215. Postcapitalism, Paul Mason
216. Evicted, Matthew Desmond
217. How to kill a City, Peter Moskowitz
218. Imaginary Cities, Darran Anderson
219. The City Always Wins, Omar Robert Hamilton
220. Affluence without Abundance, James Suzman
221. No is not enough, Naomi Klein
222. The Reason I Jump, Naoki Higashida
223. Matter & Desire, Andreas Weber
224. Utopia for Realists, Rutger Bregman (also frustrating)
225. A Hope More Powerful than the Sea, Melissa Fleming
226. We Rise, Xiuhtezcatl Martinez
227. Onlyness, Nilofer Merchant
228. The Knowledge Illusion, Steven Sloman & Philip Fernbach (also/mostly? frustrating)
229. $2 a day, Kathryn Edin & Luke Saefer
230. Walkaway, Cory Doctorow
231. When the Body Says No, Gabor Maté
232. Scattered, Gabor Maté .. oh my (scramble law)
233. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, Gabor Maté
234. The Forgetting Alzheimer’s: Portrait of an Epidemic, David Shenk
235. Turtles all the way down, John Green
236. Liminal Thinking, Dave Gray
237. Binding Chaos, Heather Marsh .. (also frustrating ie: approval econ)
238. Outside Mental Health, Will Hall ..another .. oh my
239. Gut, Giulia Enders
240. Medical Nemesis, Ivan Illich
241. The Stack, Benjamin Bratton
242. Braving the Wilderness, Brené Brown
243. Dawn of the New Everything, Jaron Lanier
244. Designing Reality, Neil Gershenfeld, Alan Gershenfeld, Joel-Cutcher Gershenfeld
245. Unbroken Brain, Maia Szalavitz
246. Lifelong Kindergarten, Mitch Resnick
247. Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks
248. Lost Connectoins, Johann Hari
249. A Second Chance, Catherine Hoke
250. The Culture Code, Daniel Coyle (most of it.. ie’s drove me mad)
251. The Dispossessed, Ursula le Guin
252. Scale, Geoffrey West (mostly for solar insight.. found much frustrating)
253. Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals, Derek Wall
254. The Human Use of Human Beings, by Norbert Weiner
255. The Undercommons, Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, huge
256. Skin in the Game, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
257. Lost People, David Graeber
258. Doughnut Economics, Kate Raworth (also frustrating)
259. New Power, Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms (also frustrating)
260. Thinking in Systems, Dana Meadows (also frustrating)
261. Sharing Cities, Neal Gorenflo ..shareable.. et al
262. Fire On All Sides, James Rhodes
263. Escape From Freedom, Erich Fromm
264. $500 House in Detroit, Drew Philp
265. Refusal of Work, David Frayne
266. Talking to my Daughter About the Economy, Yanis Varoufakis
267. Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber, dang
268. Alogrithms of Oppression, Safiya Umojoa Noble
270. Brothers of the Gun, Marwan Hisham & Molly Crabapple
271. Stamped From the Beginning, Ibram X Kendi
272. The Undiscovered Self, Carl Jung
273. Total Freedom, Jiddu Krishnamurti
274. Without a Map, Lisa Steele-Maley
275. Walking in the City w/Jane, Susan Hughes
276. The Philosophical Baby, Alison Gopnik, great insight: young, frustrating: older miss
277. The Search for Common Ground, Howard Thurman
278. Assembly, Michael Hardt and Toni Negri
279. How Soon Is Now?, Daniel Pinchbeck
280. The Battle For Paradise, Naomi Klein
281. Weapons of Math Destruction, Cathy O’Neil – mostly frustrating (judging people as a given)
282. Building & Dwelling, Richard Sennett
283. Timeless Learning
284. What the Eyes Don’t See, Mona Hanna-Attisha
285. On the Other Side of Freedom, DeRay Mckesson
286. Community – the Structure of Belonging, Peter Block – great insight/heart.. but also frustrating..(ie: accountability ness.. inviting/forming ness of gatherings.. et al)
287. For All the Wrong Reasons, Dan Benavidez
288. Everything for Everyone, Nathan Schneider
289. NeuroTribes, Steve Silberman
290. Dear America, Jose Antonio Vargas
291. How to Change Your Mind, Michael Pollan
292. Trauma & Recovery, Judith Herman
293. Emergence, Temple Grandin
294. The Divide, Jason Hickel
295. Exodus (draft), Kevin Carson
296. Think Like a Commoner, David Bollier
297. The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, Bruce D Perry & Maia Szalvatiz
298. The Gardener and The Carpenter, Alison Gopnik – mostly ch 4&5&6.. (rest frustrating ie: assumption of school et al while convincingly dissing it)
299. 21 Lessons, Yuval Noah Harari
300. Fighting for Space, Travis Lupick
301. Winners Take All – Anand Giridharadas – great insight.. but on frustrating list because of ending..(wondering if he meant to end with) a solution that is fractal to the whole book.. dang.. it’s like it negates all the great insight into how we keep losing ourselves..
303. Shadow Cities, Robert Neuwirth
304. Underbug, Lisa Margonelli
305. On Violence, Hannah Arendt – also frustrating parts (racism)
306. Everybody, Always, Bob Goff
307. Mindfulness, Jon Kabat-Zinn
308. What Makes Civilization, David Wengrow
309. Beautiful Boy, David Sheff
310. Team Human, Douglas Rushkoff
311. All We Are Saying, David Sheff
312. Clean & High, David Sheff, Nic Sheff (little frustrating on suggestions/measures – seeing a nother way)
313. Figuring, Maria Popova (mostly first half)
314. Climate, Charles Eisenstein
315. Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Shoshana Zuboff (mostly first half.. last half huge mix of frustrating ness)
316. Myth of Machine.. v 1 and 2, Lewis Mumford
317. The Radicality of Love, Srećko Horvat
318. Life of One’s Own, Marion Milner
319. Democracy May Not Exist but we’ll miss it when it’s gone, Astra Taylor
320. Everyday Chaos, David Weinberger
321. My Seditious Heart, Arundhati Roy
322. Clear Bright Future, Paul Mason
323. Walking on Water, Derrick Jensen
324. How to be an Antiracist, Ibram Kendi
325. Case Against Free Speech, Peter Moskowitz
326. The Big Box, Toni Morrison
(lots not recording here.. may be good parts but disagree w too much.. partial list of those at bottom of this page)
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327. The Great Pretender, Susannah Cahalan
328. Ongoingness, Sarah Manguso
329. My Heart, Corinna Luyken
330. The Sane Society, Erich Fromm
331. fragments of an anarchist anthropology, david graeber
332. desktop reg state by kevin carson (why am i not adding till now? no idea.. shaped so much of thinking.. intro’d to so many people).. also communal property, thermidor of progressives, and most/all other writings
333. Bird Uncaged, Marlon Peterson
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300 books to change the world – gathered by Kate: via spreadsheet, via pdf
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four books – recommended for practical nowness – esp in public ed – (old rec.. don’t rec public ed)
two books – recommended for global interconnectedness – (old rec.. don’t rec books – red flag)
if equity is everyone getting a go every day.. redefining public education becomes revolution of everyday life.. aka: global equity
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