Book Reviews

• Michael Nielsen

  @mindspillage @nayafia Many of these are, of course, more law-adjacent than law, per se. Ostrom really changed how I think about law in general, however, despite not exactly being about the law. Also, one of my favourite books ever :-)Link to Tweet

• Michael Nielsen

  More: + The Sciences of the Artificial + Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming (the first Norvig book, not the second) + Edward Abbey + The Sermon on the Mount + "The Starship and the Canoe" + Freeman DysonLink to Tweet

• Michael Nielsen

  Many of these books had a transformative effect on me. I'll read something like Deschooling Society, be transformed; and then I meet someone else decades later who loved it, and we're both instantly in a club!Link to Tweet

• Michael Nielsen

  What are some books where you it makes you happy & excited when you learn they're a favourite of someone else? A few for me, no particular order + Watership Down + Governing the Commons + Deschooling Society + A Civil Campaign + Last and First Men, or Starmaker + Rainbows EndLink to Tweet

• Michael Nielsen

  It's not strictly about science, but I must also point to Elinor Ostrom's work, especially her wonderful "Governing the Commons" (https://t.co/GhKZoFVAna). It's not quite about managing a knowledge commons, like science, but is deep & wise & sufficiently close to be worth readingLink to Tweet

• Michael Nielsen

  Lovely - Vienna is building a new park, filled with public goods, to be named after Elinor Ostrom. One of my most recommended books is Ostrom's remarkable "Governing the Commons": https://t.co/547TURB57b https://t.co/2Z5I90XEOC https://t.co/7pZ8we27slLink to Tweet

• Michael Nielsen

  And Elinor Ostrom's "Governing the Commons" - my most-frequently bought book, I believe - is a wonderful book about setting up functioning commons. Not directly open science, but very relevant: https://t.co/IivzlivrbiLink to Tweet

• Michael Nielsen

  Just ordered Brand's "How Buildings Learn", Illich's "Deschooling Society", Ostrom's "Governing the Commons", Adams's "Watership Down", Lakatos's "Proofs and Refutations", Gleick's "Genius". Six books I love, and hope someone else will enjoy too.Link to Tweet

• Michael Nielsen

  @Conaw Let me plug Ostrom's "Governing the Commons" (again) as a great book on open source, despite being written ~1990. And Schelling's book on Micromotives and Macrobehaviour is pretty great too. I read it before finishing RD, but didn't appreciate it as much as I have since come toLink to Tweet

• Michael Nielsen

  @webdevMason SICP. Watership Down. Governing the Commons. How Buildings learn. Death and Life of Great American Cities. Cosmos.Link to Tweet