Reading

I was asked about a thrivable reading list. Here is a smattering…

Behavioral Economics/Psychology: Click, Drive, Nudge, Predictably Irrational, Flow, Influence (Cialdini), work by Goleman and Gardner on Intelligences

Games: Reality is Broken (lots of good stuff online, don’t see many good books, read Nicole Lazzaro and see her presentations. See also Games for Change)

Business: Power of Pull, The Death of Demand, The New How, Synchronicity, The Wide Lens, A Whole New Mind

State of Things/Economy: The Age of the Unthinkable, Blessed Unrest, The Greater Good, Agenda for a New Economy…. lots online

Networks, Network Production and Organizations: Wikinomics, The Spider and the Starfish, Linked, papers online. Valdis Krebs work and papers at orgnet.com

Systems and Uncertainty: Biomimicry, Black Swan, Emergence, Thinking in Systems

Living Well: Art of Possibility, 4 Agreements, Tolle

Toss in some Society of the Spectacle for good measure. While you are at it add Metaphors We Live By (Lakoff).

That should be a few great ones from a smattering of fields that I think play into being thrivable.

Personally, I was blown away by: Mystical Languages of Unsaying (the use of negation in filling space), Room for Maneuver (hybridity and forms of resistance), and The Body in Pain by Scarry (half a treatise on pain and half about capitalism). Probably also influenced by a bunch of Foucault, Brecht, Deleuze, and Said.