Time and Responsibility
by Stewart Brand
Recommended by 3 notable people, including Stewart Brand and Bret Victor
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Brand uses the Clock of the Long Now project as a narrative anchor to press the case for making long-term thinking ordinary. The prose mixes practical design detail, cultural history, and plainspoken advocacy, so you'll get concrete examples alongside broad prescriptions. The main useful bit is tangible cases and shareable language to argue for longer horizons. The limiting side is periodic repetition and a tilt toward symbolic projects rather than step-by-step implementation guides, which can feel thin if you wanted granular roadmaps.
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Using the designing and building of the Clock of the Long Now as a framework, this is a book about the practical use of long time perspective: how to get it, how to use it, how to keep it in and out of sight. Here are the central questions it inspires: How do we make longterm thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare Discipline ...
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Technology, and Philosophy.
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“Soft-spoken, heavily illustrated fable built from short dialogues and watercolor sketches. Each spread pairs a spare line of text with a loose drawing, so the pleasure is visual and aphoristic rather than narrative; readers collect felt-true sentences more than plot. Most useful when you want quick consolations, a prompt for conversation with a child, or a pause during a rough day. Limiting if you want sustained argument, concrete advice, or tightly plotted storytelling: the repetition of gentleness can feel sentimental or thin after a while.”
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