Autobiography of a Restless Mind: Reflections on the Human Condition, Volume 1
, subject: Dee Hock's reflections on organizations and the human condition, 2012
Dee Hock’s maxims come in short passages, each one a prompt for your own thinking and worth returning to over years.
About the book
The first volume gathers Dee Hock's compact autobiographical reflections and maxims about institutions, human behavior, leadership, and social organization. Its fragmentary form makes it a book to revisit in short passages rather than a conventional chronological memoir.
Why read it
Best if you want a book of short maxims to keep within reach and reread, one passage at a time, as prompts for your own thinking.
Key themes
- Maxims as prompts for thought
- Built for return visits
Evidence and original sources
Sources: official Founders episodes — #238, #260, #261, #263
David says Volume 1 has been on his nightstand for years and he returns to it several times a month.
- Jay Z: Decoded — David says he keeps this book around his house as a source of maxims to prompt his thinking.
- One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization — David says Volume 1 has been on his nightstand for years and he returns to it several times a month.
- Dee Hock's Autobiography of a Restless Mind Volume One and Two — David introduces this as the first of two Dee Hock books covered in the episode and reads extensively from it.
- Land's Polaroid: A Company and the Man Who Invented It — David says he covered these two volumes of Dee Hock's maxims on Founders number 261.