Books
Books by Venkatesh Rao based on Ribbonfarm essays. All titles are also available at books.venkateshrao.com.
The definitive Ribbonfarm series on organizational life through the lens of The Office — sociopaths, clueless middle management, and losers navigating institutional reality.
Collected Ribbonfarm essays on failure, resilience, and the counterintuitive wisdom of embracing setbacks as a navigational tool.
13 essays on mediocrity as aspiration — optimization resistance, withheld reserves, and the courage to slouch toward a mediocracy utopia.
Rust Age
Collected Ribbonfarm essays on perception, cognition, and how we construct and reconstruct our mental models of the world.
Collected Ribbonfarm essays on technology, progress, and the challenge of developing a mature, appreciative relationship with the tools we build.
Collected Ribbonfarm essays on social dynamics, organizational life, and the art of navigating institutions and relationships.
Collected Ribbonfarm essays on economics, money, and the hidden logics that govern markets and institutions.