Favorite Frameworks

“You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say, ‘How did he do it? He must be a genius!” ~ Richard Feynman

This is a sometimes-updated list of my dozen (or so) top-of-mind frameworks for thinking about problems:

• Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital [Carlotta Perez]
• The Passion/Creator Economy [Li Jin/Paul Saffo]
• The Nature of the Firm [Ronald Coase]
• Waldenponding [Venkatesh Rao]
• Working in Public [Nadia Eghbal]
• Personal Monopolies [David Perell]
• Building a Second Brain [Tiago Forte]
• The Long Now [Brian Eno]
• The Network State [Balaji Srinivasan]
• A Pattern Language [Christopher Alexander et al]
• Sovereign Individuals [James Dale Davidson]
• Snow Crash [Neal Stephenson]
• Seeing like a State [James Scott]
• Complex Adaptive Systems [Miller & Page]