
http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/reading/
Ryan Holiday's reading list
"Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies", Charles Perrow
"Chaos: Making a New Science", James Gleick
"Filters Against Folly", Garrett James Hardin
"Judgment in Managerial Decision Making", Max Bazerman
"Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity", John Gribben
This is something that Garrett Hardin was writing about in the 1960-80's. 'Tragedy of the Commons', 'Lifeboat Ethics' and 'Filters against folly' are all works of his worth studying as it shines a spot light on the ugly side of humanity and our impacts.
This unfortunately lead to him adopting a lot of anti-immigration stances and some downright racist ideas. It is an a damn shame considering he had a real knack for cutting through the crap and highlighting some of the bigger long terms issues of our behaviors.
I really hope we don't go down this path, but everyday it looks like we are slowly taking another step there. May we live in interesting times.
