Seattle Intellectual Book Club

Book Club Social

Thu, Apr 23 · 6:30 PM PDT

Old Stove Brewing Co — Gardens, 1550 NW 49th St, Seattle, WA, US

Welcome to the Seattle Intellectual Book Club! This is the book club social where we will read an article and/or watch a video themed around the book of the month. Then get together to discuss!

Here is the content list for this event:

• I found an org supporting the Author's work https://www.ernestbecker.org/videos
• They have a bunch of videos but here is a short video (2mins) to get a high level synopsis of the book.
• Think I am missing a great article or video on theme? Please suggest it through the event chat or on our discord (linked below).
• The book of the month is "The Denial of Death" by Ernest Becker.

This is the event for you if:

• A book is too much of a commitment, but you still love discussing ideas.
• You just wanted an excuse to hang out with like minded people.
• You were busy and missed the monthly book club.

Come grab a drink, discuss and hang out.

Like what we are doing and want to chip in? Please consider donating. Donations will help cover the cost of the meet up registration. (about $400/year). Venmo is @Seattle_Intellectual_Bookclub

Here is the link to our Discord (text or voice chat rooms) to discuss anything book club related.
https://discord.gg/dRHj5ssaAy

Agenda:
6:30pm - 7:00pm Arrive & please buy drinks/food to support our venue if able
7:00pm - 8:30pm Group Discussion

Please let me know if you have any suggestions for upcoming books for the group to read, venues to meet at or any other constructive feedback on the format.

Book Club - Thinking in Systems

Thu, May 7 · 6:30 PM PDT

Big Time Brewery & Alehouse, 4133 University Way Northeast, Seattle, WA, US

Welcome to the Seattle Intellectual Book Club! The 45th book we are reading is called "Thinking in Systems" by Donella H. Meadows.

Come grab a drink, discuss and hang out.

*Please note that it's okay if you don't finish the book but please make an effort to at least start reading the book.

Agenda:
6:30pm - 7:00pm Arrive & please buy drinks to support our venue if able
7:00pm - 8:30pm Group Discussion

Please let me know if you have any suggestions for upcoming books for the group to read, venues to meet at or any other constructive feedback on the format.

Here is the link to our Discord (text or voice chat rooms) to discuss anything book club related.
https://discord.gg/dRHj5ssaAy

Like what we are doing and want to chip in? Please consider donating. Donations will help cover the cost of the meet up registration. (about $400/year). Venmo is @Seattle_Intellectual_Bookclub

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Here is the book description from Amazon:

"The classic book on systems thinking—with more than half a million copies sold worldwide!

“This is a fabulous book… This book opened my mind and reshaped the way I think about investing.”—Forbes

“A modern classic”—The New Yorker

In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth—the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet—Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001.

Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute’s Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe consider critical for 21st-century life.

Some of the biggest problems facing the world—war, hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation—are essentially system failures. They cannot be solved by fixing one piece in isolation from the others, because even seemingly minor details have enormous power to undermine the best efforts of too-narrow thinking.

While readers will learn the conceptual tools and methods of systems thinking, the heart of the book is grander than methodology. Donella Meadows was known as much for nurturing positive outcomes as she was for delving into the science behind global dilemmas. She reminds readers to pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable, to stay humble, and to stay a learner.

In a world growing ever more complicated, crowded, and interdependent, Thinking in Systems helps readers avoid confusion and helplessness, the first step toward finding proactive and effective solutions.

“Thinking in Systems is required reading for anyone hoping to run a successful company, community, or country. Learning how to think in systems is now part of change-agent literacy. And this is the best book of its kind.”—Hunter Lovins"

Book Club Social

Thu, May 21 · 6:30 PM PDT

Old Stove Brewing Co — Gardens, 1550 NW 49th St, Seattle, WA, US

Welcome to the Seattle Intellectual Book Club! This is the book club social where we will read an article and/or watch a video themed around the book of the month. Then get together to discuss!

Here is the content list for this event:

• I couldn't find anything great since this is an older title but here is the author's website with some of her old lectures if so inclined.

• https://donellameadows.org/donella-meadows-legacy/envisioning-a-sustainable-world/

• Think I am missing a great article or video on theme? Please suggest it through the event chat or on our discord (linked below).

• The book of the month is "Thinking in Systems" by Donella H. Meadows.

This is the event for you if:

• A book is too much of a commitment, but you still love discussing ideas.
• You just wanted an excuse to hang out with like minded people.
• You were busy and missed the monthly book club.

Come grab a drink, discuss and hang out.

Like what we are doing and want to chip in? Please consider donating. Donations will help cover the cost of the meet up registration. (about $400/year). Venmo is @Seattle_Intellectual_Bookclub

Here is the link to our Discord (text or voice chat rooms) to discuss anything book club related.
https://discord.gg/dRHj5ssaAy

Agenda:
6:30pm - 7:00pm Arrive & please buy drinks/food to support our venue if able
7:00pm - 8:30pm Group Discussion

Please let me know if you have any suggestions for upcoming books for the group to read, venues to meet at or any other constructive feedback on the format.

Book Club - 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

Thu, Jun 4 · 6:30 PM PDT

Big Time Brewery & Alehouse, 4133 University Way Northeast, Seattle, WA, US

Welcome to the Seattle Intellectual Book Club! The 46th book we are reading is called "23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism" by Ha-Joon Chang.

Come grab a drink, discuss and hang out.

*Please note that it's okay if you don't finish the book but please make an effort to at least start reading the book.

Agenda:
6:30pm - 7:00pm Arrive & please buy drinks to support our venue if able
7:00pm - 8:30pm Group Discussion

Please let me know if you have any suggestions for upcoming books for the group to read, venues to meet at or any other constructive feedback on the format.

Here is the link to our Discord (text or voice chat rooms) to discuss anything book club related.
https://discord.gg/dRHj5ssaAy

Like what we are doing and want to chip in? Please consider donating. Donations will help cover the cost of the meet up registration. (about $400/year). Venmo is @Seattle_Intellectual_Bookclub

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Here is the book description from Amazon:

""For anyone who wants to understand capitalism not as economists or politicians have pictured it but as it actually operates, this book will be invaluable."-Observer (UK)

If you've wondered how we did not see the economic collapse coming, Ha-Joon Chang knows the answer: We didn't ask what they didn't tell us about capitalism. This is a lighthearted book with a serious purpose: to question the assumptions behind the dogma and sheer hype that the dominant school of neoliberal economists-the apostles of the freemarket-have spun since the Age of Reagan.

Chang, the author of the international bestseller Bad Samaritans, is one of the world's most respected economists, a voice of sanity-and wit-in the tradition of John Kenneth Galbraith and Joseph Stiglitz. 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism equips readers with an understanding of how global capitalism works-and doesn't. In his final chapter, "How to Rebuild the World," Chang offers a vision of how we can shape capitalism to humane ends, instead of becoming slaves of the market."