Remixes

For a while now, I’ve been playing with the notion of remixing existing works in order to focus them on the elements I found most relevant, and which I found I had to dig much too hard to find. I expect I might add more of these when I find more books worthy of remixing.

Bootstrapping Complexity - Kevin Kelly’s “Out Of Control” remixed [.html]
[.pdf - 155 pages]
- Remix is a big word here, since I mostly just cut out half the chapters of the book to make much shorter book, more narrowly focused on the idea of self-organising systems.

Gentle remix of Robert Pirsig’s ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’ [.html]
[.pdf - 55 pages]
- An attempt to distill Pirsig’s thoughts on quality, technology and design in a more succinct and less personal form.

Excerpts from The Cluetrain Manifesto [.html]
[.pdf version - 10 pages]
- Highlighting central excerpts of the book to make a new, shorter Cluetrain Manifesto. Fewer bullets, more description. Yeah!