Books and Publications
Comprehensive list of books, articles, and publications referenced during the OGM 2025-11-06 call.
Books
Dan Brown Novels
The Secret of Secrets (Latest)
- Discussed by: Jerry Michalski
- Topics: Non-Local Consciousness, GABA and Filtering, psilocybin
- Quote: Not Faulkner, but Brown as a vehicle for interesting ideas
- See: Dan Brown Books
Origin (2017)
- Robert Langdon series, Book 5
- Mentioned by: David Witzel
- Topic: Rogue AI
The Da Vinci Code
- Mentioned by: Jerry Michalski
- Key thesis: Marginalization of the Divine Feminine
- Connection to Leonard Shlain's work
Academic & Non-Fiction
The Alphabet vs. the Goddess by Leonard Shlain
- Mentioned by: Jerry Michalski
- Topic: Divine Feminine marginalization (academic perspective)
- Parallel thesis to Da Vinci Code from different angle
The Big Short by Michael Lewis
- Mentioned by: Jerry Michalski, Gil Friend, Mike Nelson
- Jerry: "Among my favorite bits of media like that. They're just so insightful"
- Gil: "The guy who wrote the big short has done a series of books of similar depth and insight, really terrific"
- Related: Michael Burry
Moneyball by Michael Lewis
- Mentioned by: Mike Nelson, Gil Friend
- Another Michael Lewis book showing similar analytical depth
Getting Organized in the Google Era
- Author: Former CIO of Google (early days)
- Mentioned by: Mike Nelson
- Topic: How ADHD forced learning better information use
- Link: https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Organized-Google-Era-Stuff-ebook/dp/B0036S4CM0/
- Context: Environmental Neurodiversity discussion
The Insider's Guide to Innovation at Microsoft
- Authors: Dean Carignan and JoAnn Garbin
- Mentioned by: Gil Friend in chat at 09:32:23
Articles & Papers
Nature Article
"Dynamics of the economy in regenerative ag"
- Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44264-025-00100-1
- Shared by: David Witzel to Klaus Mager
- Context: Regenerative Agriculture economics
Wall Street Journal
AI Bubble Series
- Mentioned by: Mike Nelson
- "Every day for the last 3 weeks, there's been at least one article"
- One article: "The U.S. economy is now AI"
- All economic growth for 12+ months from data center investment
- Economy would be flat without AI investment
Seeking Alpha
"AI Completely Broke the Market (and Most Investors Haven't Noticed Yet)"
- Link: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4837966-ai-completely-broke-the-market-and-most-investors-havent-noticed-yet
- Shared by: Mike Nelson in chat at 09:33:08
Washington Post
"JD Vance, Peter Thiel, Donors, Big Tech, Trump VP"
- Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/07/28/jd-vance-peter-thiel-donors-big-tech-trump-vp/
- Shared by: Mike Nelson at 09:36:10
- Tagged as "A GREAT topic for a future call??!"
Gates Foundation
Agricultural Development Strategy Overview
- Link: https://docs.gatesfoundation.org/Documents/agricultural-development-strategy-overview.pdf
- Shared by: Klaus Mager
Critiques of Gates Foundation
- Link: https://usrtk.org/bill-gates/critiques-of-gates-foundation/
- Shared by: Klaus Mager
- Context: Matches Klaus's understanding of regenerative agriculture issues
New Yorker
"Michael Burry, Real-Life Market Genius From The Big Short, Thinks Another Financial Crisis Is Looming"
- Date: 2016
- Mentioned by: Jerry Michalski in chat at 09:12:54
- Note: Would have missed a decade of run-up
Quote Investigator
Attribution of "It's amazing what you can accomplish..."
- Link: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/12/21/doing-good-selfless/
- Shared by: Gil Friend
- Context: Tracing the Harry Truman quote origins
- Jerry's response: "Seems more complicated. love Quote Investigator"
IETF Standards (Internet Engineering Task Force)
Draft Identity Trust System
draft-sbriz-identity-trust-system-04 - Identity Trust System
- Description: Digital identity authentication system based on symmetric exchange that doesn't require federation
- Link: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-sbriz-identity-trust-system/04/
- Context: Lively debate at IETF meeting
AI Preferences
AI Preferences (aipref)
- Description: Standardize building blocks for expressing preferences about how content is collected/processed for AI
- Link: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/aipref/about/
- Context: Tools to prevent content scraping
All shared by: Mike Nelson at 09:05:31
Wikipedia Articles
Dagen H
- Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagen_H
- Shared by: Jerry Michalski at 08:01:28
- Topic: Sweden's overnight switch from left to right-hand traffic
Rai Stones
- Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones
- Shared by: Jerry Michalski at 09:09:09
- Context: Financial bubble discussion, alternative currencies
- Large stone money from Island of Yap
Newsletters & Substack
Equity Moonshot
"Why is the naive No Kings chant this..."
- Link: https://equitymoonshot.substack.com/p/why-is-the-naive-no-kings-chant-this
- Author: Rick Botelho
- Topic: Political strategy, "#C5FA trifecta offensive"
Union of Concerned Scientists
- Mentioned by: Klaus Mager
- "Yet another last urgent warning"
- From mailing list
- Hub: Portland State or Oregon State
- "Explain how we are passing one tipping point after the next"
Websites & Online Resources
Carnegie Endowment
Calendar of Events
- Link: https://carnegieendowment.org/events?lang=en
- Shared by: Mike Nelson
- Recent sessions on:
- Information ecology
- The radical right
- New World Order
TEDxMidAtlantic
2025 Speakers
- Link: https://tedxmidatlantic.com/2025-speakers/
- Shared by: Mike Nelson
- Context: Event he attended that contributed to overstimulation
Kevin MacLeod
Royalty Free Music
- Link: http://royaltyfreedoc.com/
- Mentioned by: Scott Moehring
- Context: Remixability concept
- 2,000 pieces of Creative Commons music
- One song: 31.6 billion plays
Capgemini Applied Innovation Exchange
San Francisco Location
- Link: https://www.capgemini.com/us-en/about-us/who-we-are/innovation-ecosystem/applied-innovation-exchange/aie-san-francisco/
- Context: Andreas Sjöström's workplace
- Shared by: Pete Kaminski at 09:19:24
Andreas Sjöström Profile
- Link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaswsjostrom/
- Shared by: Gil Friend at 09:21:17
"How to Keep Up in AI... My Go-To Resources"
- Link: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7376002629967020032/
- Author: Andreas Sjöström
- Shared by: Gil Friend at 09:22:31
Concept of "The Plex"
- Mentioned by: Kevin Jones
- Appears to be a publication/newsletter
- Context unclear, needs more information
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