
Network Rules
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We live in perilous times. Terrorism, pandemics, fake news plus the autocrats and platforms that profit from the fear and rage all use network power. Network power is totally different than the industrial might our politics, economics, institutions and ideologies are built on. This is a how-to guide to reclaim the powerful tools of the network era for inclusive democracy "worth fighting for" as Eleanore Roosevelt put it during industrialization's existential struggle a century ago. Democracy can win by harnessing the inherent openness and peer-to-peer empowerment to enrich communities and relieve industrialization's heavy burden on a burning and angry planet.
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READING LIST
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Duncan Watts, Six Degrees.
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Geoffrey West, Scale.
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Manuel Castells, The Information Age (Trilogy), Communication Power.
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Eric Hoffer, The True Believer.
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Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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Richard Rumelt, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy.
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Albert-Lazlo Barabasi, Linked.
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Steven Storgatz, Sync.
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Erik Bryojolfsson & Andrew McAfee, The Second Machine Age
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Everett Rogers, The Diffusion of Innovations.
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Eli Pariser, The Filter Bubble.
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Carl Benedict Frey, The Technology Trap.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin, Leadership in Turbulent Times
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David Petraeus, Counterinsurgency Field Manual
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Daron Acemoglu & James Robinson, The Narrow Corridor; also, Why Nations Fail.
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Barrington Moore: Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy.
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David Stasavage, The Decline and Rise of Democracy.
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Arnold Toynbee, A Study of History, Vol. 1.
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Jared Diamond, Collapse & Guns, Germs, and Steel
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Barbara Tuchman, A Distant Mirror & The March of Folly
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Daniel Goleman, Social Intelligence.
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Walter Scheidel, The Great Leveler.
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Clayton Christianson, The Innovator's Dilemma.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin In The Game.
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Philipp Ther, Europe Since 1989.
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Robert Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism.
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William Shirer, The Collapse of the Third Republic.
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Joan Williams, White Working Class.
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Eric Fromm, Escape From Freedom.
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Kai-Fu Lee, AI Super-Powers.
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Thomas Piketty, Capital in the 21st Century.
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Robert Reich, Saving Capitalism.
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Henry Kissinger, World Order.
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William Leuchtenburg, Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal.
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Andrew Lih, The Wikipedia Revolution.
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Robert McKee, Story.
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Eckhardt Tolle, A New Earth.
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