Partitioned Book Club: Immoral Mazes II

[jenn]

The UW Campus is our default meetup location going forward! We will congregate on or near the gray slab benches on the first floor of QNC at 7:20ish, and a regular will let everyone into a room in IQC for 7:30 pm. You can see the precise location on plus.codes. The benches are near the Ring Road entrance, and across the hall from an orange-tinted lab space.

As always, vegetarian snacks will be provided.

Activity

This week, we’ll finish our two-part discussion on Zvi Mowshowitz’s sequence on Moral Mazes, which is about dysfunctions that can happen in large organizations and to those caught in their webs.

Like in part one, we will be doing this partitioned book club style.

Readings

Does Big Business Hate Your Family? (2019)

Some parts of the Immoral Mazes sequence from below:

• Each person will grab one of the following parts. If every part is taken, start doubling up.

• Head to the discord to claim which sections you will be reading. If this is your first meetup, roll a d6 and read the corresponding partitions.

1. Perfect Competition and Imperfect Competition

2. What is Life in an Immoral Maze? and What is Success in an Immoral Maze?

3. How to Identify an Immoral Maze and The Road to Mazedom

4. How to Escape From Immoral Mazes

5. Ten Causes of Mazedom

6. Potential Ways to Fight Mazes

Optional:

• Moloch Hasn’t Won

• Moral Mazes and Short Termism

• Mazes Sequence Roundup: Final Thoughts and Paths Forward

See you there!