Insights · Book Club

The Society readsin common.

A year-round reading list curated by members of the Circle. Books, papers, and proceedings discussed off the record at chapter dinners and in working group sessions.

Spring Reading

Antifragile

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Read alongside the Resilience working group. Discussed in the context of cloud and clearing concentration.

Summer Reading

The Innovator's Dilemma

Clayton Christensen

Re-read in the AI cycle. What incumbents get right, and where the model still fails.

Autumn Reading

Seeing Like a State

James C. Scott

On legibility, governance, and the cost of imposing simple frameworks on institutional complexity.

Winter Reading

The Society Charter (MMXXV)

Working draft · members only

The Society's own evolving text. Read in advance of the Annual Summit.