Ages of Discord: A Structural-Demographic Analysis of American History, by Peter Turchin Peter Turchin is Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut, and a founder of “Cliodynamics,” mathematical modeling of long-term social processes. You...
https://youtu.be/hG6_jhp5xGY Building a Railroad: What is Progress? (Video 5 minutes) What Shall We Call Progress? Anthropologists have long noted that indigenous tribes live much more in the now than moderns. Consequently, their sense of time is much less acute, and...
A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet by Raj Patel and Jason Moore A three-minute video blaring the theme of this book is the first video scrolling down Raj Patel’s home page. On the faculty of the...
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari Johann Hari’s book interested me for four reasons; the first is that the author is a very talented, but tarnished young British writer. He won a number of writing awards in his first job,...
https://youtu.be/IoHwTYrEWg8 Coffee With Doc: Revolutionary Philosophy (Video 6 minutes) Constant Disruption: Continuous Adaptation Big environmental problems from every direction are hemming in high consumption economies and societies. We tend to nod in agreement...
The Origins of Creativity by Edward O. Wilson E. O. Wilson is professor emeritus from Harvard, originally renowned as the world’s foremost expert on ants. He’s an entomologist, beyond that a naturalist, and beyond that a student of the human condition, still vibrant...
https://youtu.be/3st-Mb1Z9wo Coffee With Doc - Compression Thinking (Video 7 minutes) Compression Institute Founder Doc Hall and Filmmaker Ethan Berry talk about Compression Thinking. Business Uncertainty and Compression Thinking Ours is a time of great uncertainty,...
What We're Reading, by Doc Hall: Wisdom Keeper: One Man's Journey to Honor the Untold History of the Unangan People, by Ilarion "Larry" Merculieff Merculieff is now Elder at Large of the Tribes of Alaska. From the age of 4 his tribe, the Unanagan, marked him for that...