“The Dispossessed” by Ursula K. Le Guin /ipfs/QmWfaEdDcSA7BHabxWdaH165zzk1AqAzk58VDBtfsnpdTx
User-centric innovation:
Competing Against Luck by Clayton Christensen
Why things are popular and why certain artififacts become hits:
-The Hitmakers by Derek Thompson
Karl Polanyi - The Great Transformation (1944)
A detailed economic analysis of how we came from kinship (households), reciprocity and redistribution to the modern Fictitious Commodities: Labor, Land, and Money
Related, but not from the same “science sphere” Formalism vs Substantivism Economics
Currently very much enjoying this - ‘Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction and Social Dreaming’ By Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby
Grazing:
‘The age of living machines‘ Susan Hockfield
All time fav: ‘The hero with a thousand faces Joseph Campbell’, actually everything by Joseph Campbell (fangirrrl)