[Themaintainers] book, Maintainers reading group?

[Evan Hepler-Smith]

Dear all,

I'd be interested as well!

Evan

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Kate McDonald <kmcdonald at history.ucsb.edu>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'd be interested. I'll be traveling until mid July, but after that I'm
> around and looking to read exciting books about infrastructure!
>
> Best,
> Kate
>
> On May 21, 2015, at 7:38 AM, Bradley Fidler wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I would be up for this if there are articles in the mix -- something to
> which I can more reasonably commit during an over-committed summer :)
>
> Brad
>
> On Thursday, May 21, 2015, Lee Vinsel <lee.vinsel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Angie,
>>
>> I think this is a great idea, and I have always wanted to try out a
>> virtual seminar/reading group. Is anyone else on the list interested? If
>> not, I'm fine with it being just us two.
>>
>> Lee
>>
>> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Boyce, Angie Marlene <
>> aboyce at hsph.harvard.edu> wrote:
>>
>>>  I just saw the announcement for a new book that looks relevant for the
>>> folks on this list (info below), and that got me thinking that it might be
>>> fun to have a Maintainers virtual summer reading group.  Is anyone else
>>> interested in that?  (I’m not committed to this book in particular.)
>>>
>>>
>>> http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/7705.html?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=05.20.2015%20(1
>>> )
>>>
>>>  Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the
>>> cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline
>>> passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many
>>> agree that the need for infrastructure change is urgent, where is the sense
>>> of urgency to make these changes happen?
>>>
>>> That's one of the questions Harvard Business School Professor of
>>> Business Administration Rosabeth Moss Kanter
>>> <http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6486> asks in her
>>> book published today, Move: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in
>>> the Lead. <http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Move/>
>>>
>>> "Given so many situations and factors that should arouse enormous
>>> concern, why is it so hard to secure public support for long-term
>>> infrastructure investments and get Congress to vote for them?" Kanter
>>> writes. "I think it's a structural issue. Silos, narrow interests, and
>>> fragmentation mute outrage. Perhaps we're stuck not only with aging
>>> infrastructure but also with obsolete ways of talking about it."
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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>> Program on Science and Technology Studies
>> College of Arts and Letters
>> Stevens Institute of Technology
>> Hoboken, NJ 07030
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>>
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