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# On Reading Systems
- URL: https://www.bramadams.dev/on-reading-systems/
- Published: 2026-07-17T20:58:27.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-18T01:09:57.000Z
- Description: A fun conversation about where my thinking on Reading Systems is now
- Author: Bram Adams
- Tags: newsletter

Dear Reader,

Please enjoy this conversation I had on the [Design Systems House](https://wireframe.ds.house/?ref=bramadams.dev)!

I share a lot of new ideas I've had about reading as a system, and I get to look like a cool computer man as well!

Books Mentioned in Conversation!:  
  
\- The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle

\- Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson

\- Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman

\- Martin Eden by Jack London

\- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

\- How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard

\- Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

\- The Beginning of Infinity by David Deustch

\- Developer Hegemony by Erik Dietrich

\- How to Read A Book by Mortimer Adler

\- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

\- Orality and Literacy by Walter Ong

\- Lost in Thought by Zena Hitz

\- Deep Work and So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport

\- Boredom by Alberto Moravia

\- Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough

\- Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable

\- Deng Xiaopeng and the Transformation of China by Ezra Vogel

\- East of Eden by John Steinbeck

\- Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows

\- Outliers and Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

\- Symposium and Phaedrus by Plato

\- Hamlet by Shakespeare

\- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

\- Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller by Alec Nevala Lee

\- A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

\- The Information by James Gleick

\- Incerto Series by Nassim Taleb

\- Van Gogh: A Life by Steven Nafieh

Best,

Bram