The best design books are not about design. Instead, they reveal forces that you should be aware of when you design. Here are three of my favorites:
The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K. Le Guin
To learn the value of sufficient insight when problem solving.
To learn the value of sufficient insight when problem solving.
The Federalist and Antifederalist Papers - (multiple authors)
To learn the trade offs between centralization and decentralization, the value of anonymity, and the forces at play in the design of large multi-agent systems.
To learn the trade offs between centralization and decentralization, the value of anonymity, and the forces at play in the design of large multi-agent systems.
Incerto - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
To learn how dependency among probabilistic events underlies designed and emergent structure in the world.
To learn how dependency among probabilistic events underlies designed and emergent structure in the world.
