Book Review: Siegfried Schrotta (ed.), Systemic Consensus Building (German)

This is an exciting idea based, among other things, on measuring resistance rather than approval to proposals.

Chapter 2 compares this method with the traditional majority principle. Chapter 4 proposes concrete metrics. Chapter 5 reminds me in parts of Design Thinking. Chapter 19 makes reference to Plato's aporia or hopelessness or tension. Chapter 27 has additional very practical ideas.

I can imagine that today there is even more scientific evidence for the effectiveness of this method. For example, Sarah Brosnan's finding that while we have no inborn sense of fairness, we do have an inborn sense of unfairness when we experience it. 

Book Review: M. Scott Peck, The Different Drum

I have not read the book from cover to cover. But maybe it is a book where you look at the table of contents and pick out one or two chapters.

Community building is not easy and the book helps pave the way. 

Would be nice if there was a newer book. A 35 year old book sometimes seems a bit dated with its references to the Cold War. Community building is gaining importance again, after Corona, etc.

Book Review: Alice Munro, Dear Life / Too Much Happiness

From what I remember, Jonathan Frantzen is a fan of Alice Munro. If you don't have enough time to read a novel, read a story by Alice Munro -- that's his advice as I understood it. And that's what I did and enjoyed. A story reads in three hours, ideal for a slow afternoon in the park at the weekend. 

There is probably a deep analysis, or even several, to each story. I'm not going to try to analyse the stories here in this review now. What I like, what I admire, is how Munro manages to take me out of the role of reader. The stories touch me. 

Some stories I have read several times: "Train", "Dimensions", "In Sight of the Lake" (inside?). 

These books will certainly stay on my shelf and I will pull them out from time to time.