Resources

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• (McCarthy and McCarthy 2002) - Software for Your Head: Core Protocols for Creating and Maintaining Shared Vision on Amazon - The authors, Jim and Michele McCarthy, are the originators of the Core Protocols. The book explains in detail what the Core Protocols are, how to use them, and how they came into being.
• A previous version of this book Summoning Genius is the Live In Greatness website.
• The Man In the Arena - Theodore Roosevelt on bias toward action.
• You and Your Research - Richard Hamming on the qualities that make a great researcher.
• target zero - The Smallpox Eradication Archives, with great, thorough documentation of the WHO Smallpox Eradication Program, including the history of the program, the people involved, and the strategies used to eradicate smallpox.

Agile software development

• Extreme Programming (XP) - also a at extremeprogramming.org. Extreme Programming applies many of this book’s ideas specifically to software teams: practices for shared ownership, rapid feedback, courage, honest communication, mutual help, and disciplined collaborative practices such as pairing and continuous improvement. Like Positive Psychology, XP treats exceptional team performance as something that can be reliably cultivated through concrete behaviors— not merely individual talent. (Beck and Andres 2004)
• Scrum - Scrum gives teams a repeatable framework for turning shared vision into action and coherent products, using shared goals, transparency, feedback, and continuous improvement. Compared with XP, Scrum focuses more on organizing and managing iterative work— while XP provides team culture and concrete engineering practices for building software well. (Schwaber 2004)

Feminism

bell hooks

• Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics — bell hooks. A concise, accessible answer to “What is feminism?” Hooks defines feminism as a movement to end sexism and introduces its implications for race, class, work, education, violence, sexuality, and everyday life. (hooks 2000)
• Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black — bell hooks. These essays examine how oppressed people move from silence into speech. Hooks connects Black feminist thought with education, class, intimate violence, militarism, homophobia, writing, and political transformation. (hooks 1989)
• Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics — bell hooks. A collection of cultural criticism about Black identity, race, gender, sexuality, representation, and resistance. Hooks considers literature, film, art, pedagogy, and popular culture as sites where domination can be reinforced or challenged. (hooks 1990)
• Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom — bell hooks. Hooks presents education as a practice of freedom and describes an engaged pedagogy capable of crossing racial, sexual, and class boundaries. The essays address authority, voice, multicultural classrooms, theory, embodiment, and the transformative possibilities of teaching. (hooks 1994b)
• Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations — bell hooks. These essays analyze how race, gender, class, sexuality, and violence are represented in mass media and popular culture. Hooks discusses figures and subjects ranging from Madonna, Spike Lee, and Malcolm X to gangsta rap, poverty, censorship, and colonial memory. (hooks 1994a)

Feminist Masculinity

• The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love — bell hooks. Hooks examines how patriarchy teaches men to suppress emotion, equate domination with strength, and distance themselves from love. She offers a feminist vision of masculinity grounded in emotional honesty, mutuality, care, and freedom from violence. (hooks 2004)
• We Should All Be Feminists — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Adichie draws on personal experience in Nigeria and the United States to explain how gender expectations constrain women and men alike. She argues for raising children beyond restrictive gender roles and for a feminism that enables everyone to live more fully and authentically. (Adichie 2014) (Adichie’s TEDx talk of the same name is also great.)
• Refusing to Be a Man: Essays on Sex and Justice — John Stoltenberg. Stoltenberg argues that conventional manhood is socially constructed through dominance, hierarchy, and separation from the feminine, and that men can choose to reject those patterns. His essays offer a useful foundation for thinking about feminist teams in which status does not determine whose knowledge matters and power is replaced by reciprocity, respect, and shared responsibility. (Stoltenberg 1990)

Intersectionality

• Feminist, Queer, Crip — Alison Kafer. Connects disability justice with feminism, queer and trans politics, reproductive justice, and environmental justice. It is grounded in concrete cases while developing a political vision of disability and disabled futures. (Kafer 2013)
• Writing Caste/Writing Gender: Narrating Dalit Women’s Testimonios — Sharmila Rege. Dalit-feminist work built around eight Dalit women’s life narratives. It makes the intersections of caste, gender, class, labor, education, and violence tangible through lived experience. (Rege 2006)
• A Recognition of Being: Reconstructing Native Womanhood — Kim Anderson. Anderson, a Cree/Métis scholar, combines personal experience with interviews with forty Indigenous women. The second edition addresses Indigenous feminism, Two-Spirit theory, colonialism, heteropatriarchy, resistance, and resurgence. (Anderson 2016)
• Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches — Audre Lorde. Essays by a Black lesbian feminist connecting sexuality with race, class, gender, age, power, and difference. “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” and “Age, Race, Class, and Sex” are especially relevant. (Lorde 2007)
• A Decolonial Feminism — Françoise Vergès. A concise critique of feminism that ignores colonialism, imperialism, racial capitalism, domestic labor, and the experiences of women in the Global South. It is among the shortest, most direct introductions to this tradition. (Vergès 2021)
• Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot — Mikki Kendall. An accessible collection connecting feminism to race, poverty, food insecurity, housing, education, health care, violence, and working-class life. (Kendall 2020)
• Qur’an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman’s Perspective — Amina Wadud. Islamic feminist interpretation. Wadud examines how patriarchal assumptions entered interpretations of the Qur’an and develops a gender-inclusive method of reading the text. (Wadud 1999)

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. 2014. We Should All Be Feminists. London: Fourth Estate. https://www.amazon.com/Should-Feminists-Kindle-Single-Vintage-ebook/dp/B00L0F01NK.

Anderson, Kim. 2016. A Recognition of Being: Reconstructing Native Womanhood. 2nd ed. Toronto: Women’s Press. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0889615799.

Beck, Kent, and Andres, Cynthia. 2004. Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change. 2nd ed. Addison-Wesley Professional. https://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Programming-Explained-Embrace-Change/dp/0321278658.

hooks, bell. 1989. Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black. Boston, MA: South End Press. https://www.routledge.com/Talking-Back-Thinking-Feminist-Thinking-Black/Hooks/p/book/9781138821736.

———. 1990. Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics. Boston, MA: South End Press. https://www.routledge.com/Yearning-Race-Gender-and-Cultural-Politics/hooks/p/book/9781138821750.

———. 1994a. Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations. New York: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Outlaw-Culture-Resisting-Representations/hooks/p/book/9780415389587.

———. 1994b. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. New York: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Teaching-To-Transgress/hooks/p/book/9780203700280.

———. 2000. Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics. Cambridge, MA: South End Press. https://books.google.com/books/about/Feminism_is_for_Everybody.html?id=xUvaAAAAMAAJ.

———. 2004. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love. New York: Washington Square Press. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0743456084.

Kafer, Alison. 2013. Feminist, Queer, Crip. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0253009340.

Kendall, Mikki. 2020. Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot. New York: Viking. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0525560564.

Lorde, Audre. 2007. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Berkeley, CA: Crossing Press. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B006L7RCEI.

McCarthy, Jim, and McCarthy, Michele. 2002. Software for Your Head: Core Protocols for Creating and Maintaining Shared Vision. Addison-Wesley Professional. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0201604566.

Rege, Sharmila. 2006. Writing Caste/Writing Gender: Narrating Dalit Women’s Testimonios. New Delhi: Zubaan. https://www.amazon.com/dp/8189013017.

Schwaber, Ken. 2004. Agile Project Management with Scrum. Microsoft Press. https://www.amazon.com/Agile-Project-Management-Developer-Practices/dp/073561993X.

Stoltenberg, John. 1990. Refusing to Be a Man: Essays on Sex and Justice. New York: Plume. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0452010437.

Vergès, Françoise. 2021. A Decolonial Feminism. Translated by Ashley J. Bohrer. London: Pluto Press. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0745341101.

Wadud, Amina. 1999. Qur’an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman’s Perspective. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0195128362.