Book Recommendations

[diablo]

There was a thread on ukdnf asking what people were reading and for book recommendations so here's one to kick this off again:

Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans

A lot of members will be designers by trade in one way or another, and this book uses design tools to build or "design" a better life.

"Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home--at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding or the chair you are sitting in. Everything in our lives was designed by someone. And every design starts with a problem that a designer or team of designers seeks to solve.

In this book, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who or where we are, what we do or have done for a living, or how young or old we are. The same design thinking responsible for amazing technology, products, and spaces can be used to design and build your career and your life, a life of fulfillment and joy, constantly creative and productive, one that always holds the possibility of surprise."

 

[Cav]

English Pastoral: An inheritance by James Rebanks. A reflection through personal experiences of the near destruction of traditional farming techniques (evolved over millennia) in one generation due to big business farming/chemical industry. It will make you despair but hopes that we can learn from this profit at all costs approach. ( just started the hopes for the future section, so will see)

 

[whois-search]

Vassal State by Angus Hanton

Vassal State lays bare the extent to which US corporations own and control Britain’s economy: how American business chiefs decide what we’re paid, what we buy, and how we buy it. US companies have carved up Britain between them, siphoning off enormous profits, buying up our most lucrative firms and assets, and extracting huge rents from UK PLC – all while paying little or no tax. Meanwhile, policymakers, from Whitehall mandarins to NHS chiefs, shape their decisions to suit the whims of our American corporate overlords.

 

[dn]

Vassal State by Angus Hanton

Vassal State lays bare the extent to which US corporations own and control Britain’s economy: how American business chiefs decide what we’re paid, what we buy, and how we buy it. US companies have carved up Britain between them, siphoning off enormous profits, buying up our most lucrative firms and assets, and extracting huge rents from UK PLC – all while paying little or no tax. Meanwhile, policymakers, from Whitehall mandarins to NHS chiefs, shape their decisions to suit the whims of our American corporate overlords.

non-affiliated recommendation? ;)