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Engineering Reading List

Foundational Texts

Self-reference and strange loops in complex systems

How paradigms shift and knowledge evolves

Why top-down standardization often fails in practice

Gift economies and open source culture

Short-term vs long-term thinking in systems

Software Engineering

Why adding people to late projects makes them later

Distributed intelligence and emergent behavior

Design patterns before design patterns

Why interfaces fail and how to fix them

When technology drives culture rather than serves it

Systems Thinking

Quantum mechanics and Eastern philosophy parallels

Quality as the intersection of subject and object

Eastern philosophy for Western minds

Interconnectedness and mutual dependency

Strategy and tactics in competitive environments

Cultural Analysis

The medium is the message

Performance and identity construction

When copies replace originals

Image over substance in modern culture

Economic anthropology and social contracts

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