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the mental inertia that John Stuart Mill called the ‘deep slumber of a decided opinion’.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
One person who was willing to risk political suicide was the visionary systems thinker Donella Meadows – one of the lead authors of the 1972 Limits to Growth report – and she didn’t mince her words. ‘Growth is one of the stupidest purposes ever invented by any culture,’ she declared in the late 1990s; ‘we’ve got to have an enough.’ In response to t
... See moreKate Raworth • Doughnut Economics: The must-read book that redefines economics for a world in crisis
A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.
Ryan Holiday • Stillness Is the Key
The Indoctrinated Brain: How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your Mental Freedom
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Professor Yochai Benkler, Harvard University, author of The Wealth of Networks
Daniel Susskind • The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts, Updated Edition
As the author John Perkins spells out it’s a paradigm driven forward, ‘by a concept that has become accepted as gospel: the idea that all economic growth benefits humankind and that the greater the growth, the more widespread the benefits. This belief also has a corollary: that those people who excel at stoking the fires of economic growth should b
... See moreJoe Lightfoot • A Collective Blooming: The Rise Of The Mutual Aid Community
In a world of artificial reality and instantaneous transmission of everything everywhere, integrity of judgment and the ability to distinguish the true from the false will be even more important.