Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It Hardcover – Illustrated, July 27, 2016

Don't waste your money on Surviving the Future, this is the Fleming book to get containing everything Surviving the Future has AND A LOT MORE. A definite jumping off point for many other subjects, and a surprising given the title, and entertaining pleasure to read. As I was two thirds through or so, I started asking myself? Is this the best book I've ever read? And I concluded yes it is. Perhaps Voltaire is better in some ways, but Lean Logic is definitely more pertinent to our time.

Very detailed and thorough. At first the encyclopedic nature of it is hard to get used to. It seems like hyperlinks without the links.Bonus: piss off all sides of the climate change debate because Lean Logic states clearly that top-down technocracy and green authoritarianism will fail.Localism = Only local solutions can address local challenges. And that sounds downright Libertarian and gets you branded as a “climate denier” (because anything less than full embrace of the Green New Deal is branded a “climate denier”).“Surviving the Future” takes Lean Logic’s content and puts a narrative and context around it, and may be a better intro to Lean Logic. Perhaps read that first.

The breadth and depth of this work is as staggering as its importance. It's a kind of panoptic tutorial of our past and future. I'm astounded to discover after just a couple hours of reading that much of the anger and turmoil in the world can be accounted for and bridges over the polarized political world can be built based on the perspective that resources are finite, growth is not limitless, and culture is imperative. The market economy has and is failing many in the first world, more and more rely on informal economy for survival but the desire to "get back in the game" in terms of full-time factory paychecks, manufacturing competition, infrastructure maintenance, etc. is strong. But is this a misguided direction? Perhaps strengthen the informal economy is the correct proposition. Lean Logic makes a case for what many people are already experiencing and desire on both liberal and conservative sides of economic, cultural and religious thinking and dispels much of the magical thinking on both sides to open up a space for thinking about the future in emotional and rational terms that I think everyone who cares about the future can support.

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This is an amazing book. It's not like anything you've come across before. David Fleming talks about one topic for a page or less and then goes on to another related topic. I find myself reading one or two small sections, closing the book, and then thinking about it for a few hours before going back to read another section on another topic. The 600 + page book is definitely not a sit-down one afternoon and finish it all type of book. It is very thought-provoking.

There’s a lot and lot and lot of information densely packed into this book. I need to be in prison or stranded on a island to get through this one..

I saw this in a colleague's office and dipping through it I found so many ideas that I wanted to reference and mull over that I bought one for my own library. It's the sort of book that encourages thinking and reflection over many, many subjects.

(Had To Post A Number Of Stars To Write Anything) I read a bit of the beginning in the sample & already found a lot of good things. They're kind of hard to describe, but it's a little like explaining tactics of mind tricks (ex: "strawman arguments").A real-life example that comes to mind is when someone is very young in school. They might hear "What if a bad guy did that?" whenever a point is made in favor of fighting back, escape, revenge- really anything that creates an inhospitable environment for attack. The answer would be "that would be an injustice" or "they wouldn't be a bad guy at that point." But it's not meant as a genuine question, it's presented as an argument that these are bad ideas because they'd have a different effect under different conditions. The exact phrasing could be "demonstrative rhetoric to generate a False Boyd Cycle in a manner similar to a Strawman Argument." Someone Fantasizes those conditions, Observes that, then Orients their Decisions & Actions on it- instead of a regular OODA Loop (aka: "Boyd Cycle"). Their question generates something of a hallucination, almost like projecting a hologram- but directly into someone's mind.An interesting point is that they're not even saying that it's a bad idea & someone can point that out (acting like they're approving because they're making the point that IN DIFFERENT CONDITIONS it would be a bad idea- kind of emphasizing that your idea is a good one, because they're mentioning a different situation that the one at hand). So pointing out that the situation would HAVE to be different to be wrong, could be referenced as support.