I also love Patio11's writing - but the formal thinking in this space is generally within the bountiful sub-disciplines that exist between and within Anthropolo

I also love Patio11's writing - but the formal thinking in this space is generally within the bountiful sub-disciplines that exist between and within Anthropology and Sociology. James C. Scott is, among other things, an Anthropologist[1]. Social scientists of various stripes write about these kinds of things quite often. I don't know much about the banking sector, but there are lots of authors writing accessible, detailed books that look into the intersection of politics, technology, society, identity, and other factors. I think part of what makes Patio11's writing so attractive to the HN crowd is that he writes with technical rigor in a way few social scientists can manage. A lot of social science is, in my opinion, nibbling around the edges of a lot of the "stuff" in digital worlds - but there is a lot to get through and it's not a huge field! So reading a lot of the source texts can be kind of frustrating: good stuff, but if they're describing a field you work in there will probably be parts it seems like they got wrong. Patrick, on the other hand, does get the details right - and the general sociology. [1] He's also been a CIA asset! A man of contradictions (or patterns - there are a surprisingly large number of good Anthropologists who are arguably bad humans).