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Power
An annotated collection of 2 books & papers on power, spanning 1958 to 2009. Featuring works by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, David Owen & Jonathan Davidson — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
Il Gattopardo
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, 1958 · Feltrinelli
Not a technology book, but the opening conceptual frame for how technology waves actually play out. "Se vogliamo che tutto rimanga come è, bisogna che tutto cambi." — if we want everything to stay as it is, everything mu…
Hubris Syndrome: An Acquired Personality Disorder? A Study of US Presidents and UK Prime Ministers over the Last 100 Years
David Owen & Jonathan Davidson, 2009 · Brain, Vol. 132, No. 5
Owen and Davidson's article proposes hubris syndrome as an acquired personality disorder — specific patterns of behaviour that emerge in people who have held substantial power for substantial time, with a consistent set…